Book Illumination

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muspec:I thought I’d go with a nice fine press book today.  This 1938 copy of The Song of

erikkwakkel:Perfect bookThis is the perfect medieval book: it is on purple parchment, written in gol

greedLa Somme le Roy, France ca. 1290-1300British Library, Add. 28162, fol. 9v

snowball fightTacuinum Sanitatis, Milan or Pavia ca. 1390-1400BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673,

thisobscuredesireforbeauty:From The Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch), c. 1550.Source

jumpingjacktrash:dark-zeblock:I found some old art books today called ‘Celtic Art: The methods

the lute playerPierre Michault, La Dance aux aveigles, France 1466BnF, Français 1654, fol. 17

battle with the DragonQueen Mary Apocalypse, London 1300-1325BL, Royal MS 19 B XV, fol. 22v

mediumaevum:A bat in a hat.Picardy Book of hours, 15th century, Abbeville, Bibliothèque munic

ossidiseppia:The book of Kells - Leabhar Cheanannais

Anonymous, “The Tower of Babel”, Bedford Book of Hours, c. 1423, British Library, London

Adso in the Library * illustration to “The Name of the Rose” of Umberto EcoWelcome with

Zahriye Sayfası TezhibiVolkan Cihan - 2015

hideback: Carl Jung (Swiss, 1875-1961)Illumination from The Red Book (Liber Novus), 1913-1930For 50

Book of Hours, Use of Rome (Hours of Étienne Thirion) Lyon, 1518; illuminator: Master of B&ea

Our Curator Rare Books and Fine Printing received an enquiry about this fifteenth-century Psalter. S

Recently digitised: Eighteenth-century manuscript in Arabic described as ‘an enumeration

Book of Hours. Use of Sarum.  Flanders or Northern France (St. Omer?), ca. 1325–1330.&nbs

erikkwakkel: A love story hidden in a hat You are looking at a medieval book from c. 1270, but it h

hideback: Carl Jung (Swiss, 1875-1961) Illumination from The Red Book (Liber Novus), 1913-1930 &ldq

A Primer of the Art of Illumination 1874

How about a bird flying?Today’s #drollerydonnerstag is flying its way across the bottom ma

PentecostWorkshop of Maître François (François Le Barbier?)Paris, ca. 1475–80Horæ (Book of Hours) fo

CrucifixionMaster of the First Prayer Book of Maximillian and Associates (Flemish; ca. 1444–1519)ca.

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