Page - 108 - in Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert

108 michaEla schullEr-JuckEs from a different background. A similar process seems to have taken place with the drolleries that accompany the miniatures between columns and in margins (pl. 10b). These often conclude with thin threads that reduce right down to the un- derdrawings, which have exactly the same leaf forms as those used by the northern French master in his coloured initials (pl. 10a). This procedure is further confirmed by an unfinished initial from the northern master on fol. 34v (pl. 10c), where the shapes of the leaves correspond to those of the drolleries (pl. 6c,d). pl. 8a–d: see pl. 1b and 6a, details for fols. 5r (a), 3r (b), 106v (c), 141v (d)