Single leaf from a Gradual with the Assumption of the Virgin, Initial G with the death and assumption of the Virgin, Walters Manuscript W.756, fol. W.756v detail

Single leaf from a Gradual with the Assumption of the Virgin, Initial G with the death and assumption of the Virgin, Walters Manuscript W.756, fol. W.756v detail, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

A Call to Arms! Heraldry in Renaissance Florence (And a Mystery You Can Help Solve)

A Call to Arms! Heraldry in Renaissance Florence (And a Mystery You Can Help Solve)

Discover Digitised Manuscripts - Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

Discover Digitised Manuscripts - Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

Dianne's Medieval Writing: History and Mythology - 1066 and all that

Dianne's Medieval Writing: History and Mythology - 1066 and all that:   For a large number of years now, there has been a website entitled Secrets of the Norman Invasion . The site has grown and developed over ...

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

Jan Van Eyck

Jan Van Eyck 

 

The Finding of the True Cross c.1422 

 

from the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame 

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