Foliate headpiece and decorated initial from BL Burn 44, Volume 1, f. 1

Foliate headpiece, title in red, red initial 'M'(aximiano), at the beginning of Symeon Metaphrastes's Lives of the Martyrs for December 4, with the ownership inscription 'De la Bibliotheque de la Chevaliere D'Eon' of the chevalier d’Éon in the lower margin. Image taken from Volume 1, f. 1 of Lives of martyrs celebrated from 4 to 31 December (continues in Burney 44, volume 2). Written in Greek.