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 "horse"

13th century (1240-1250) England? - Salisbury (Sarum)

BnF

Français 403: Apocalypse

fol. 8r - the Second Rider of the Apocalypse (the Red Horse)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8447298r/f1.planchecontact

15th century (ca. 1440), Northern France - Rouen

British Library

Royal 16 G V: Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées (French edition of De mulieribus claris) by Giovanni Boccaccio; illumination by the Talbot Master

fol. 64v - Cloelia crossing the Tiber

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8359&CollID=16&NStart=160705

14th century (ca. 1300-1340) Switzerland - Zürich

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Cod. Pal. germ. 848: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse)

fol. 192v - Albrecht von Rapperswil

http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848

second quarter of the 14th century (1325-1350 (1340?)), French - Paris

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 761: Artus le Restauré

fol. 1r - Arthur hunting; Arthur stumbling upon Jehanette with her mother; Jehanette and her mother receive presents

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84478715/f1.planchecontact.r=roman%20de%20fauvel.langEN

15th century (second half?) France?

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 114F: Prose Lancelot

fol. 329r

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000091h/f269.planchecontact

later 15th century (ca. 1470)

Bibliothèque de Genève

Ms. fr. 189: Tristan en Prose

fol. 177v - “Tristan welcomes the girl sent by Isolde”

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0189

second quarter of the 14th century (1325-1350 (1340?)), French - Paris

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 761: Artus le Restauré

fol. 6v - Ansel venant chercher Jehanette”

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84478715/f1.planchecontact.r=roman%20de%20fauvel.langEN

I am really clueless about what’s up with the wheel.

14th century France - Languedoc

BNF

Français 857: (i.a.) Breviari d’amor by Matfré Ermengau

fol. 55r

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84192477/f1.planchecontact.r=857.langEN

second quarter of the 14th century (1325-1350 (1340?)), French - Paris

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 761: Artus le Restauré

fol. 66v - Master Estienne and Marguerite, Lady of Argençon, before the Black Gate (“Maître Estienne et Marguerite, dame d’Argençon, devant la Porte Noire”) (not really sure who the text is referring to; my google searches yield no answers… Anyone?)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84478715/f1.planchecontact.r=roman%20de%20fauvel.langEN

15th century (first quarter?), French

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 580: (i.a.) Le Roman de Fauvel

fol. 123r

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8448967x/f1.planchecontact.r=roman%20de%20fauvel.langEN