Thursday, January 31, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Single leaf from a short work on the Passion of Ch...: Single leaf from a short work on the Passion of Christ, Carrying the cross, Walters Manuscript W.731, fol. W.731r , originally uploaded by W...


Sunday, January 27, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of...

Parchment and Pixel: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of...: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of the Mass, Crucifixion, Walters Manuscript W.757, fol. W.757r , originally uploaded by Wal...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Pliny in his study with landscape,seascape,animals, sun and moon

 
Pliny in his study




 
 
Harley 2677 f.1

Cats and Mice from a 13th c.English Bestiary,British Library

                              cats and mice  from an English Bestiary, 2nd quarter of the 13th century

Thursday, January 10, 2013

two creatures oppose each other under a blue and gold foliated sky

 confrontation between a snail and a mouse
 
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Egerton 1121 f. 10; Language: German; Gothic cursive script; from the Spiegel der Weisheit; Austria, 1430
 Workshop of the Grillinger Bibel

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Jan Van Eyck

 
The Finding of the True Cross c.1422 
 
from the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame 

Sunday, January 6, 2013

images from Harley 4431, aka "The Book of the Queen", Christine de Pizan, 15th century, British Library

 
 
f 115 v  Aurora Bringing the Dawn
 
 
 
 
 
 
Man of sorrows
 
 
 
 Christine de Pisan presenting her book to queen Isabeau of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 The lover telling of his love to his lady in a garden. 
 
 
                                      Bacchus and his followers
 
 
 
  two women standing in a sphere of the cosmos
 
 
 
 
f 290 detail Christine de Pizan in her study with the personifications of Rectitude, Reason, and Justice, while outside, the ladies build the Cité des dames
 
 

f 290  including foliate border and illuminated initial;script is Gothic cursive 
 
 
 
 Pyrrhus avenging the death of Achilles
 
 
 
  Queen Penthesilea and her army of Amazons on their way to aid the Trojan army
 
 
 
 
 Hermaphroditus
 
 
 
 Queen Pasiphae
 
 
Narcissus
 
 
 
Ceres sowing corn
 
 
 
 
 Mercury inspiring the speech of the learned
 
 

 
Shepherd
 
 
 
 
 
 Pegasus
 
 
 
 
 Christine de Pizan presenting her book to Louis of Orleans
 

British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Harley 4431


The Making of the Queen's Manuscript


Christine de Pizan