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Title	[Manuscript illumination: border decorations]
Collection	Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
Date	late 13th century - early 14th century
Extended Description	Decorations incorporating: 1. Dog chasing deer, monkey, chaffinch, archer and various exotic beasts -- 2. Deer and gold finch.
Id Number Current Accession	F.128.1
Id Number Current Repository	1327
Inscription	T.E.B. number "3723" (see Administration)
Location Creation Site	England (London?)
Subject	Illuminated manuscripts;
Measurements Dimensions	550 x 380 mm (pages)
Material	Paint, gold leaf on parchment.
Notes	Manuscript fragments, probably from a psalter owned by a rich lay family. It does seem as though these two border fragments would have been taken from the same book/manuscript. These would have originally been part of the Central School's Teaching Examples Collection.
Object Notes	Partial borders with decorative stylised floriation/foliation, cusped with overpainting (which may have been silver, but now appears white). This border is inhabited by a rabbit, bird, grotesques, two hounds bringing down a deer, a dragon, a male archer and a human head - all inhabiting a wonderful (zoomorphic and anthropomorphic) border which would originally have surrounded a body of text.
Rights	University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
Work Type	Fine Art