Illuminated Manuscript

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Illustrations from a 12th century Byzantine manuscript the “Madrid Skylitzes”

Signs of the Last Judgement (fragment) - Livre de la Vigne Nostre Seigneur

damienkempf:The art of warWritten by Konrad Kyeser (1366- c. 1405), Bellifortis is the first fully i

ponientes-archive:Born of eternal night, dark elves come to steal away the light.

The Lindisfarne Gospels - folio 2vBack to my favourite book.  The carpet page introduction incipit o

The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.  Miniature from the Hortus Deliciarum (Garden of Delights)

Herrad of Landsberg (1130-1195), ‘Depiction of Hell’, from “Hortus Deliciarum&rdqu

Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert. Folio 60r. Dated around 1170. Saint Cuthbert heals a sick girl by

Carpet page from The Lindisfarne Gospels introducing the Gospel of Matthew - made for “God and St Cu

Symbols representing the Zodiac from The York PsalterFolios 1-5, Origin; England 1260Add MS 54179, I

Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma (Italian; 1457–1505)ca. 1500Tempera a

Unfinished business: this manuscript was intended to have illuminated initials, but for some reason

Illuminations from the Vienna Dioscorides, a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica f

Epistulae heroidum (Octavien de Saint-Gelais) by Jean Pichore, Robinet Testard and other unknown ill

Homilies of Gregory the Theologian,  9th-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript

Chesta Chatura Nayaka (The Hero Who is Clever in Actionattributed to Kripal of Nurpur, Pahari 1660–7

Fugger Ehrenbuch by Jorg Breau the Younger, 1545-49 

Illustrations from “The Braunschweig Sketchbook”, c. 1380-1420

Illustrations from Héroïdes d'Ovide Héroïdes ou épitres d'Ovide, (Octavien de Saint Gelais) by Robin

Limoges enamels illustrating events from Virgil’s Aeneid by the Master of the Aeneid, c. 1530-35; Fr

deathandmysticism:Wilhelm von Zimmern, Zimmerische Totentanz, ca. 1540-50

delphinidin4:Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485 (Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470)

16th-century artillery manuals demonstrating how to use cats and birds to set fire to besieged citie

carminamoderna:The asp, a snake with eviscerating venom, will put one ear to the ground and stop the

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