Illuminated initial from BL Burn 231, f. 17

Initial white vine initial 'P'(linius) with a partial border inhabited by birds and putti, at the beginning of Pliny's Epistolae. Image taken from f. 17 of De viris illustribus (ff. 1-16), Epistolae 1-7 and 9 (ff. 17-86). Written in Latin, with some passages in Greek.