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!

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Posts tagged "15th century clothing"

later 15th century (after 1471) Northern Netherlands - Enkhuisen?

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Buchanan f. 1: Book of Hours

fol. 10v - detail of the Virgin from the Annunciation

Mary is inside, with her hair loose and only in her kirtle. Although images of this one figure can be hardly ever classified as accurate depictions of contemporary fashion (her hair is loose most of the time and the gowns she wear are really never in the-latest-trend style), this particular detail shows a lovely example of 15th century kirtle. It is laced in front, the neckline is a deep scoop and the bodice is tightly fitted (although the sleeves are not).

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/f/001a.htm

15th century (ca. 1470-1472) Southern Netherlands - Bruges

London, British Library

Harley 4380: Chroniques (Vol. IV, part 2) by Jean Froissart

fol. 6r - “marriage of Philip d’Artois and Marie, daughter of Duc de Berry”

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7232&CollID=8&NStart=4380

15th century (ca.1410) France (Paris)

Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève

Ms. fr. 190/1: Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes by Giovanni Boccaccio

fol. 157v - Arsinoe, Queen of Macedonia (not sure which one, there were several of them), being dragged out of the city (presumably for her execution?)

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0190-1