Book Illumination Gallery
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easy riderGuillaume de Digulleville, Pèlerinage de vie humaine, France 14th centuryAix-en-Provence,
lumberjackPierre de Hangest, Les Omelies Saint Grégoire pape, Bruges ca. 1470BL, Royal 15 D V, fol.
Playful figures and creatures spring to life among the foliate borders of this beautiful manuscript
Les très belles heures de Notre-Dame.Réalisation commandée par Jean 1er de Berry en 1389.
crucified heartRené of Anjou, Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance, France ca. 1470Cologny, Fondation
bishop and nun‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th centuryBL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r
Hercules, stahp!Raoul Lefèvre, Histoires de Troyes, Cognac ca. 1500BnF, Français 252, fol. 99r
serpent queenUlmannus, Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, Franconia ca. 1470München, Bayerische Staat
Manuscript Illumination with Initial S, from a Choir Book via Medieval ArtMedium: Tempera, ink, and
astronomersBartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, Fren
cma-medieval-art:Initial E from a Municipal Law Book: The Last Judgment, c. 1330, Cleveland Museum o
Page from the ‘Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain’(circa 1500) by Master of the Fi
marine beastsMatthew Paris, Chronica maiora, St Albans ca. 1255Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS
creation of the animalsBible, Germany c. 1445New York Public Library, MA 104, fol. 3r
undead armyTrès Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Bourges 1411-1416Chantilly, Musée Condé, 65 (1284), f
drummer catbook of hours, England ca. 1300Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 78v
Godfrey of Bouillon being “crowned” as Lord of Jerusalem. IIRC Godfrey died having ruled
wildlife of LibyaLe secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485BnF, Français 22971, fol. 41
anti-vaccination activistsJames le Palmer, Omne Bonum, London ca. 1360-1375BL, Royal 6 E VI/2, fol.
catPeterborough Bestiary, Peterborough c. 1300-1310Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 53, fol. 19
cma-medieval-art:Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (M) with St. Andrew (recto), Jacopo Filippo d’ Argenta
The Thinker MonkeyBreviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms
In this book of hours from the mid to late 1400s, an elegantly illuminated initial letter P contains
cavemenLe secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485BnF, Français 22971, fol. 13r
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