illumanu:

14th century (ca. 1340) Northern France - Artois or Picardy
London, British Library
Royal 20 A XVII: Roman de la Rose 
fol. 18r - “Diex d’Amours approaching the dreamer”
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8551&CollID=16&NStart=200117
24th Aug 201206:0113 notes
illumanu:

late 15th (1492-1495??*) century France - Tours
Prayer book of Anne de Bretagne, made by Jean Poyer 
fol. 20v - detail of Margaret of Antioch (kneeling beside a disemboweled dragon)
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=372
*Anne of Brittany commissioned the book to be made for her son Charles Orlando, the Dauphin, who was born 1492 and died 1495
23rd Aug 201212:035 notes
m00rish:

A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj
21st Aug 201216:3214 notes
collective-history:

The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of around seventy early Greek medical works associated with Hippocrates and his teachings
20th Aug 201223:0451 notes
talkingincircles:

god as geometer, frontispiece of a bible moralisee, c.1250.
demonagerie:

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Md 2, detail of f.78r (Cancer). Tübinger Hausbuch: Iatromathematisches Kalenderbuch; die Kunst der Astronomie und Geomantie. Württemberg, 15th century.
19th Aug 201203:3929 notes
jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a very dapper looking cockerel, swinging a censer. Another lovely image from the Walters Museum, it’s a great image to start with after our Olympics holiday.
Image source: Walters Museum MS W.102. Creative Commons licensed via Flickr.
18th Aug 201210:4737 notes
speciesbarocus:

Conrad Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem (c. 1487).
18th Aug 201205:5273 notes
demonagerie:

Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 167, f. 105v (“the angelic world according to the Hebrews”). Jehan Thenaud, Introduction à la Cabale, dédiée au roi François Ier. 1536.
18th Aug 201200:4767 notes
illumanu:

14th century (ca. 1300-1340) Switzerland - Zürich
Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
Cod. Pal. germ. 848: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift = Codex Manesse
fol. 113v - Herr Hesso von Reinach
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848
14th Aug 201206:023 notes
Opaque  by  andbamnan