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Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts. By Celia Fisher. London: The British Library, 2004. 64 pp. Illus. £7.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-7123-4853-0
This detailed study considers the history and significance of floral art in medieval manuscripts showing how plants and flowers appear in art for a number of reasons-the purely decorative, the symbolic, or for practical identification as in the case of herbals.
"Although flower decoration in illuminated manuscripts reached its peak in the fifteenth century, the origins of flower decoration lie much earlier"...