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 "execution"

middle 15th century (1455-1460) Austria - Styria

Sankt Lorenzen ob Murau

altar paintings in the local church - Martyrdom of Saint Margaret (the panels are not necessarily in the right order)

tempera on wood

http://tethys.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/

no. 002126 (courtship), 002127 (dragon), 002128 (breast ripping), 002129 (decapitation), 002130 (scourging), 002131 (torch), 002132 (incarceration), 02133 (barrel)

Read the account of her martyrdom from the Legenda aurea here.

end of the 13th century France or Flanders

Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire

U 964: Biblia Porta

fol. 266r

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bcul/U0964

early 15th century (1405-1410), French - Paris

Latin 7789: De Senectute; Pro Marcello, both by Marcus Tullius Cicero

fol. 65v - Lucius Flaminius with his mistress watching an impending execution

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84516084/f49.planchecontact.r=francais+7789.langEN

About the incident, from wikipedia:

Cato reported that during his consulship, Flamininus took his mistress with him to the north of Italy. Whilst there, a noble Boii and his family sought sanctuary in Flamininus’ tent. As the mistress had often told Flamininus that she had never seen a man die, the consul turned to her and asked her whether she wanted to see a Gaul die. The Boii noble was still speaking through an interpreter when Flamininus ordered his lictor to behead the Boii noble.

- wikipedia

14th century (1349-1351) Austria - Lilienfeld

Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek

Cod. 151: Concordantiae caritatis

fol. 244v - Public service. (killing adulterers)
The man fornicating/being killed is wearing a Jewish cap, which, astonishingly, was a cap worn by Jews in the Middle Ages. The woman’s hose are visible, tied with girdle below the knee.

http://tethys.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/