Medieval Illumination Gallery
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septembriseur:Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes.(x, x, x, x)
bear clubGaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th centuryBnF, Français 616, fol. 27v
wild catsGaston Phébus, Le Livre de la chasse, Bruges ca. 1485Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169, f
wild catsGaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th centuryBnF, Français 616, fol. 36r
discardingimages:deer costumeRoman d’Alexandre, Flanders 1338-1344Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f
Grotesque flutist. Illumination from a French manuscript of 1408, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxfo
discardingimages:water stagJacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350Den Haag, Konink
themagicfarawayttree:Rollo led raids on Northern France in the 9th century. He and his Viking raider
The Pentecost, Bohemian Master, 1413-15
badgersGaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th centuryBnF, Français 616, fol. 35v
Happy Hanukkah from GWU Special Collections! Our new acquisition, this illuminated manuscript leaf f
‘Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face’book of hours ('The De Brailes Ho
The Nativity: The Adoration of the Christ Child by Mary and Joseph (miniature from folio 066r from t
Fifteenth century manuscript illumination of Venus, sitting on a rainbow, with her devotees offering
Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death, Master of the Chronique scandaleuse (aka the Master of Morg
lionofchaeronea:A cleric, knight, and laborer, representing the three major social orders of medieva
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. De civitate dei : manuscript, [ca. 1300]MS Typ 228Houghton Librar
jeannepompadour:Blanche of Castile and her son Louis IX of France, miniature from the Psalter of St.
medieval-women:A popular health manual from the 15th century, the Tacuinum Sanitatis, shows many exa
nihtegale:King Arthur sets infants adrift in a boat, 1310
praising the lordPsalter and hours, Avignon ca. 1330-1340Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 121,
Whore of BabylonBeatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-S
Illuminations from the Gero-Codex, the oldest manuscript of the Reichenau school of illumination, c.
useless-catalanfacts:A capital letter from the Vidal Mayor codex, the first compilation of the laws
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