The text reads:
And it came to pass that William and Isabetta, king and queen of Drachenwald, traveled south to the barony of Knights Crossing for the great feast by the renowned cook Magdelene Grace Vane who from the xxvii day of april a.s. liii was henceforth proclaimed a member of the Ordo Cygni.
The three main sources for the seated figures, the table drapings, and the food were BL MS Royal 14 E III f. 77v , BL MS Royal 2 B VII f. 199v, and BL MS Additional 42497 f. 1av. The three exemplar photos for the people pictured in the illumination are this one, this one, and this one.
Alas, the calligraphy smudged while still wet, and this is when I learned that scraping on vellum isn't quite the same as scraping on perg. I wish it had cleaned up better; but I also wasn't sure that I wanted to recalligraph it all.
© 2019, Sara L. Uckelman.
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