MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 86

Decoration

Fine miniatures.

• Title Medea
• Type miniature
• Subject Medea in a chariot drawn by two dragons. Walled castle with tower; two children giving a robe to crowned Glauce (?); Creon (?) in tower.

Fine borders.

Fine initials (decoration partly unfinished). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 765, pl. LXXIII) 10- to 13-line initials in gold frames, with borders in right margins, decorated with animal figures, acanthus leaves, flowers and gold disks.

fol. 1r

• Title Herules furens
• Type initial S
• Subject Hercules with a club, in lion skin, speaks to an armoured soldier; Juno seated on a bench above.

• Title Thyestes
• Type initial Q
• Subject Atreus serves Thyestes his two sons at feast.

• Title Phoenissae
• Type initial C
• Subject Oedipus and Antigone; battle scene in the background; leopard with red collar in the border.

• Title Phaedra
• Type initial I
• Subject Hunting scene. Death of Hippolytus.

• Title Oedipus
• Type initial I
• Subject Oedipus, blind; Jocasta, stabbing herself with a dagger; Oedipus (?) kneeling before a statue; griffon.

• Title Troades
• Type initial Q
• Subject Walled city; scenes showing fates of Trojan women.

• Title Medea
• Type initial D
• Subject Walled castle; on the wall Medea slaying her child; at the base of the wall crowned Creon (?) and Medea giving a robe to two children.

• Title Agamemnon
• Type initial O
• Subject Agamemnon returning home with prisoners and a band of warriors. The murder of Agamemnon.

• Title Octavia
• Type initial I
• Subject Two panels: (1) Nero seated on the throne and Octavia (?) with another woman and soldiers; (2) Octavia in a ship with sailors. Pelican feeding its young with its blood (?) on top of the initial I.

• Title Hercules Oetaeus
• Type initial S
• Subject Hercules on his funeral pyre gives his bow to Philoctetes; two women watch. Hercules rises to heaven from his funeral pyre.