Dame LiffeMedia: Oak gall ink on calf-skin vellum with 24kt gold leaf.
Size: 7.75" x 9" Allison Stanley Many perfuming plants are decorating her; jasmine, mint, frankincense, myrrh, olive leaves, dandelion, lavender, climbing nightshade, cornflower, damask roses and more.
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Shee was brighter of her blee then was the bright sonn,
her rudd redder then the rose that on the rise hangeth, meekely smiling with her mouth & merry in her lookes, euer laughing for loue as she like wold; & as shee came by the bankes the boughes eche one they lowted to that Ladye & layd forth their branches. Blossoms & burgens breathed ffull sweete, fflowers fflourished in the frith where she fforth stepedd, & the grasse that was gray greened beliue. (Anonymous, "Death & Liffe" I lines 65-73) |