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Nicolas Spierinc

Flemish Scribe · 1455–1499

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Nicolas Spierinc was one of the most gifted and audacious of the Flemish scribes and illuminators working in the late 1400s. While creating elegant and extremely legible calligraphy, he often embellished his script with elaborately flourished letters, known as *cadelles*, elongating the descenders or ascenders of the letters into the margin where they seem to take on a life of their own. In 1455 S

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Date
about 1471
Medium
Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
Culture
Flemish
Department
Manuscripts
Institution
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Object ID
12847fe9-79f5-4b14-8a5c-4b295737aff5

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