Mistress Aemilia Rosa

Pelican

2 October A.S. LVI (56) 2021 at Trial by Fire

Calligraphy & Illumination

Kolfinna ValravnRoxbury MillAtlantia

Text

Attend, Atlantia, to thy Queen and King To hear of duty and dedication true Steadfast service in many colors and hues From Aemilia Rosa eternal springs. No scribe or poet can number everything: Though uncountable hours and great works ensued, Sweet sacrifice and struggles were not eschewed. She does not recoil from sharp arrows and slings.Now in this sweet Barony of Hills so Bright Eckehard and Jane make known Our will as the Crown: What now must she become but a vulning Peer? A gentle Pelican with wide wings of white, When Fiery Trials and Royal Archers abound. May all rejoice from what is presented here!Thus also do We award her the sole and exclusive right to bear arms, to wit: Vert, a domestic cat's head cabossed ermine maintaining in its mouth an artist's paintbrush fesswise argent, a bordure ermine. Done by Our hands this day, October 2, A.S. LVI.In witness thereof, I Triton Herald set my hand by these letters Patent
Ealawynn Mæru (Alias Ela)Roxbury MillAtlantia

Materials

11"x14" PergamenataWinsor & Newton GouacheKuretake gold mica ink

Size

11" x 14"

Script

Roman Capitals

Source

Horæ ad usum Fratrum Prædicatorum, dites Heures de Frédéric d’Aragon (Hours of Frederick of Aragon)
Folio 217
Folio 135
Todeschino, Ioan (14..-1503?). Enlumineur
Bourdichon, Jean (1457 ?-1521). Enlumineur
Maître de Claude de France (14..-15..). Enlumineur
1501-1502
http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc72250h

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