Margaret of Scotland, c 1483 Finish:Single SACELLI REGALIS SURDECANUS

SACELLI REGALIS SURDECANUS

Plate 9 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

Zoological study of the Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) native to Australia

so called because they met under a buttonwood tree

Container for consecrated communion bread

Margaret of Scotland, c 1483 Finish:Single SACELLI REGALIS SURDECANUSMargaret of Scotland, c 1483, (1910). Margaret was the Danish queen of James III of Scotland. Her headdress is an intermediate style between the butterfly and the pyramidal. It developed from the horned, or rather forked, headdress the cleft at the upper part being now closed up. The cauls are embellished with pearls. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).