A young couple is shown exchanging betrothal rings in front of their parents while maidens pick flowers from the lawn. In the background stands Dourdan, one of the duke’s many residences.
‘Cat playing a rebec’ from Book of Hours (S.E. England, c1320-c1330),
shelfmark Harley 6563 f. 40
© British Library Board.
Thanks, medievalthedas!
Twelfth-century Byzantine manuscript of the Hippocratic oath was written out in the form of a cross, relating it visually to Christian ideas
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De Arte Venandi cum Avibus, literally “On The Art of Hunting with Birds”, is a Latin treatise on ornithology and Falconry written in the 1240s by Frederick II, and dedicated to his son Manfred.
image: Bibliotheca Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1071. folio 16r
Fragments of an Abbasid Qurʼān, probably written in the third century A.H / ninth century C.E.
The manuscript also contains fine examples of early geometrical ornamentation at the front and back.
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Source: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
Livre de chasse
Each is £30.00, 12 for £330.00. They are also available mounted and framed. I think this could be a beautiful gift to someone you know loves manuscripts.
They also have LES TRÈS RICHES HEURES, THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS… Satan, Satan lend me a dollar…
Source: manuscriptcollection.com
Illustration of Lucifer, taken from a French manuscript of the fifteenth century
The devil in the centre of the picture and those round the sides combine elements of the human form with those of pigs, cats, angels, dragons and carry hooks and instruments of torture, they are shown in different colours, with snarling faces and huge fangs, and are intended to instill terror and fear of hell and damnation into the beholders.
Source: english.cam.ac.uk
Francesco Petrarca - Trionfi
ca. 1450, vellum, Firenze
(Details!!!)
Source: schoyencollection.com
The Gospels of Henry the Lion, Order of Saint Benedict — $11.7 million
Originally commissioned by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, for the altar of the Virgin Mary at the Brunswick Cathedral, this gospel book was purchased by the German government at Sotheby’s of London in 1983 for £8,140,000, or about $11.7 million (at the time). At 266 pages, including 50 full-page illustrations, the book is considered a masterpiece of the 12th century Romanesque illuminated manuscript.
Source: flavorwire.com
The Peterborough Chronicle (also called the Laud manuscript and the E manuscript), one of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, contains unique information about the history of England after the Norman Conquest. According to philologist J.A.W. Bennett, it is the only prose history in English between the Conquest and the later 14th century.
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Image 551 A page (fol 23v) from the Trinity Apocalypse (for a fuller description of this MS, see Image 553) illustrating verses from Chapters 19 and 20 of the Book of Revelation.
The page illustrates the battle against the beast and his defeat and imprisonment.
The first miniature depicts the casting into the lake of fire, represented as the mouth of Hell in the form of gaping jaws of an animal. The birds are feeding on the soldiers who are attempting to follow the beast.
In the lower panel, the three events of the imprisonment of the dragon are illustrated. The figure of St John appears at the left hand margin of the bottom margin, as he does in many of these illustrations, indicating that the events described in the book are his visions. Marks and Morgan 1981, p.65
Source: english.cam.ac.uk
Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.
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Source: medievalscribes.com
The Round Table experience a vision of the Holy Grail. From a 15th century French manuscript.
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