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 "illumination"

14th century (1320-1330) Hainaut or Valenciennes

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 571:  (i.a.) Livre du Trésor by Brunetto Latini

fol. 92r

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84510972/f1.planchecontact

end of the 13th century France or Flanders
Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire
U 964: Biblia Porta
fol. 473r - historiated initial P

14th century France - Languedoc

BNF

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

fol. 55v

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

end of the 13th century France or Flanders
Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire

13th century France

Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon

Dijon 526: (i.a.) Le Bestiaire d’Amours by Richard de Fournival

fol. 28v - a quail?

http://romandelarose.org/#book;Dijon526

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

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

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

fol. 059v - Herr Heinrich von Sax

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

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

BnF

Français 403: Apocalypse

fol. 33v - the Whore of Babylon

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

early 15th century (ca. 1400-1410) France

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 836: Le Livre du duc des vrais amants by Christine de Pizan

fol. 65v

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449048s/f152.image

13th-14th century Italy - Bologna

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer

Cod. Bodmer 75: Decretum (cum glossa ordinaria Iohannis Teutonici et Bartholomaei Brixiensis) by Gratianus

fol. 258v

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0075

12th century (ca.1170s) England

Glasgow University Library

MS Hunter 229 (U.3.2.): Hunterian psalter

fol. 157v - detail of an inhabited initial (Q?)

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/psalter/psalterindex.html