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 "maiden fair"

14th century (1353) France - Paris

Bibliothèque de Genève

Français 178: Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

fol. 2r

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0178

second quarter of the 14th century (1325-1350), English - London?

British Library

Yates Thompson 13: the Taymouth Hours

folios 8v, 9v, 10v

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8148

15th century (first quarter?), French

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 580: (i.a.) Livre pour l’enseignement de ses filles du Geoffroi de La Tour Landry

fol. 57r - “Le Livre que le chevalier de La Tour ost fait pour l’enseignements de ses filles et cetera “

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

end of the 15th century (ca. 1490-1500) Netherlands - Bruges

London, British Library

Harley 4425: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

fol. 113r, 114r, 116v - Bel Accueil (Fair Welcome) and la Viellie (the Duenna)

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7465&CollID=8&NStart=4425

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. 23 - Erythrean Sibyl

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

16th century (ca. 1540), Italian

detail from a portrait of a woman with a little boy by Agnolo Bronzino

Washington, National Gallery of Art

source 1

source 2

late 15th century; French - Cognac

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 599: De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccaccio (French transl.)

fol. 48r - Megullia

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Mandragore

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009638m/f102.item

15th century (first quarter?) France?

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 606: L´Epistre d’Othea by Christine de Pisan

fol. 23v

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007552/f32.planchecontact

later 15th century (1479) Southern Netherlands - Bruges

British Library

Royal MS 17 F II: La Grande histoire César (Les faits des Romains, with additional texts)

fol. 9r - birth of Caesar; detail

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_17_F_II

15th century (first quarter?) France?

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Français 606: L´Epistre d’Othea by Christine de Pisan

fol. 32v

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007552/f32.planchecontact