C M wrote:
>>>> Yikes! I just wrote the British Museum to see if they had a clue.... Oh 
>>>> well, I've looked like an idiot before! :)> I will follow up with Strutt - 
>>>> thanks for your pointers.> Sg> > ------------------------------
>  
> http://www.thearma.org/spotlight/NotesLEJEUDELAHACHE.htm
>  
> Second and fifth image, caption MS Nero D.IX folio 103

Well, very cool. Real needle-in-a-haystack stuff to find the right image from 
that truncated reference out of Houston. I am pleased it turned out to be one 
of the two candidates I turned up, and the one I thought was stylistically 
promising, but my patience in looking for examples of plates from those mss 
was exhausted much earlier ;-)

Note that's not just "Nero" in the BL cataloguing system, but actually "Cotton 
Nero." The Cotton collection has loads of sub-collections with different 
names. There's a superscript on the folio number 103 that (based on the 
elusive note 7 I found on another page on this website) is an r, meaning fol. 
103 recto, the front of the page.

If anyone is really hot for this image, you can probably purchase a slide of 
the image from the BM. You will need all the above information to specify what 
you want.

Can't tell on my monitor if the seams match Houston's, but from the position, 
it's certainly the figure she intended. Which secondary source she drew her 
copy from is anyone's guess.

--Robin
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