Next group of three to be finished in my blanks for regions project are three penwork initials for Aarnimetsä:
| Blank 1 | Blank 2 | Blank 3 |
|---|---|---|
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
| BL MS Arundel 325 fol. 36 | BL MS Burney 212, fol. 14 | BL MS Harley 666, fol. 30 |
All three took about 1 hour a piece, and they were done Feb. 19, 20, and 21. I'm happiest with the first; the second has foliate fill which I'm bad at, but think turned out OK; the third I was actually quite unhappy with midway through but I think in the end it turned out OK, despite the, again, foliate fill that I don't like.
I picked the exemplars by flipping through my collection of printouts of puzzle initials from the BL, and found that I hadn't noted the citation for the "C". This isn't the only printout I have where I don't have a citation, so I decided once and for all to fix this, by going through all the hits in the BL simple search for "puzzle initial" and then indexing them. The index is available here: An Index of Puzzle Initials in the British Library Online.
© 2013, Sara L. Uckelman.
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