Medieval Illumination

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medievalcartoonist:The Arms of Lancelot du Lac.It is rare to find a knightly character in medieval f

jeannepompadour:Charles V of France his wife Joanna of Bourbon and their children, later 14th c.

Emperor Frederick II a.k.a Stupor Mundi is one of my favourites among Medieval rulers. I regard him

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,

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