Word: extant
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...gold and colors". In Mr. Morgan's manuscript the animals are colored blue, brown or red, shading into white. The miniatures are framed in bands of color with a plain background, usually of gold. Herbert, in his "Illuminated Manuscripts", says that the book is one of the finest of extant Bestiaries. It was executed about 1170, and in 1187 Phillip, Canon of Lincoln, gave the book with others to the Augustinian Priory of Radford, now called Workshop. At one time the manuscript belonged to William Morris...