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
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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
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m00rish: A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj
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collective-history: The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of around seventy early Greek medical works associated with Hippocrates and his teachings
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talkingincircles: god as geometer, frontispiece of a bible moralisee, c.1250.
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manuscriptI think this has come up in just about every medieval art course I've been in
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.
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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.
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speciesbarocus: Conrad Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem (c. 1487).
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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.
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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
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