Illumanu

This tumblr aspires to become a helpful resource for history (and mainly fashion history) research and focuses primarily on illuminations from medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Note: I am not a professional fashion historian. If you spot any inconsistency or outright fallacy somewhere in the picture descriptions please feel free (or even better, obliged) to let me know!

Posts tagged "1241"

13th century (1241) Italy - Modena or Bologna

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Lat. th. b. 4: Decretals by Gregory IX, with the apparatus of Bernard of Parma

fol. 54r - “Petitioner reads from a scroll to a seated man. Others wait.”

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/lat/th/b/004.htm

13th century (1241) Italy - Modena or Bologna

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Lat. th. b. 4: Decretals by Gregory IX, with the apparatus of Bernard of Parma

fol. 168r - “Bishop admonishing a tonsured prisoner held by injured husband. Wife weeps.”

The woman wears a barbette and a fillet of a kind. Her dress is fitted at the wrists and seems to be tight at the girdled waist - might be partly fitted too?

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/lat/th/b/004.htm