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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Lady doe. Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 103r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Finger guns. James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, London ca. 1360-1375. BL, Royal 6 E VII, fol. 142r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Melusine in her bath. Thüring von Ringoltingen, Melusine, Germany 1468. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs 4028, fol. 50r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Nature, whose thoughts were on the things enclosed beneath the sky, had entered her forge, where she was concentrating all her efforts upon the forging of individual creatures to continue the species. For individuals give such life to species that, however […]

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

The Three Dead (with a #peacock and a #cat). Psalter and Hours of Bonne de Luxembourg, Jean Le Noir(?), Paris before 1349. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters 69.86, fol. 322r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Cardinals. John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer, Bohemia ca. 1410-1420. BL, Add 24189, fol. 7v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Sea monk. Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 117r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Snail and turtle. Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, Tours or Paris 1503-1508. BnF, Latin 9474, fol. 232v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

#medieval diving suit. Konrad Kyeser, Bellifortis, Bavaria 1459. København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Thott 290 2º, fol. 44r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Creation of the animals. Bible, Germany c. 1445. New York Public Library, MA 104, fol. 3r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Hare with a crossbow. Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai ca. 1338-1344. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 94v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

#waterworld. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 42v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Owl. Bestiary, Thérouanne ca. 1277. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 4, fol. 41v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Owl. Queen Mary Psalter, London 1310-1320. British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 128v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Seven deadly sins. Innocent III, De sacro altaris mysterio (part of the ‘Mettener Armenbibel’), Metten Abbey 1414–1415. München, BSB, Clm 8201, fol. 95r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Hound rider. book of hours, Ghent ca. 1300. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.85, fol. 46r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

#devil setting fire to Job’s household. Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, Flanders ca. 1470-1480. Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1139, fol. 134r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

#Devil’s wheel. #apocalypse, France 1220-1270. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 59v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Couple embracing on fleurs-de-lys. Traictés de Pierre Salemon a Charles VI roy de France, Paris 1412-1415. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 165, fol. 4r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Vulcan. Ovide moralisé, Paris ca. 1380-1390. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 176, fol. 73r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

This year was like was like... Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland 15th century. BnF, Latin 9333, fol. 96v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Temptation of Eve. Miroir de la salvation humaine, Bruges ca. 1480. BnF, Français 6275, fol. 3r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Crocodile. ‘the Rochester Bestiary’, England 13th century. British Library, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 24r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

#lion crested helmet. Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480. BnF, Français 9140, fol. 1r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

Bishop on a donkey. Le livre de Lancelot du Lac & other Arthurian Romances, Northern France 13th century. Beinecke, MS 229, fol. 104v.
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