This was completed in three stages (hence the three dates). It was drawn out and painted in the first stage, and then half of the calligraphy in the second stage; I had problems with the vermillion and the sepia bleeding in to each other and so I quit in frustration and it took me a good while to have the desire to try to finish it. I completed the calligraphy, fixing up some of the bleeding a little, and di the whitework in the final stage.
The image is based on fol 92v of Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Liturg. 251, end of the 14th C, which is reproduced on p. 201 of Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures.
© 2009, Sara L. Uckelman, liana@ellipsis.cx.