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 "vair"

end of 13th century France

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer

Cod. Bodmer 147: Estoire Del Graal (interpolated)

fol. 268v

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0147

last quarter of the 13th century (1275-1300) France?

Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal

Arsenal 3142: (Collection of poems, in Old French)

fol. 311v - “des trois mors et des trois vis” (the three dead and three living)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55003999w/f1.planchecontact

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

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

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

fol. 179v - Der von Johansdorf

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

12th century, probably from Germany - Weissenau

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer

Cod. Bodmer 127: Passionary of Weissenau; Vitae Sanctorum (Lives of the Saints)

fol. 11v - initial I (“Incipit passio sancti Sebastiani martyris[…]”)

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0127

13th century (mid-1240 - 1250) France - Paris

Morgan Library

Ms M. 638 - Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible

fol. 42v - David weds Batsheba

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=200

13th century (mid-1240 - 1250) France - Paris

New York, The Morgan Library

Ms M. 638 - Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible

fol. 33v - Abigail talks to her husband

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=200

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

Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
Cod. Pal. germ. 848: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift = Codex Manesse

fol. 194r - Herr Otto vom Turne

The woman on the left is wearing a veil and a barbette, but her hair is still visible - falling down her back unrestrained. Her underdress (cote) is of patterned teal fabric. On top of it she wears a pink overdress (sleeveless surcote) patterned with bands. Of the same pattern is the blood-orange overdress (sleeved surcote) of the woman on the right. The sleeves of her pink underdress are visible.

The strikingly blonde man wears an outer garment made of broad bands of bluish-gray and pink cloth - which seems to be lined in vair (squirrel fur) and is overturned at the neck, forming a collar - atop a pink undergarment. His hose are as yellow as can be and his stylishly curled hair is adorned with a chaplet (flower garland).

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

13th century (mid-1240s or ca.1250) France, Paris

New York, The Pierpoint Morgan Library

Ms M. 638 - Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible

fol. 26v - David meets Saul

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=200

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

Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek
Cod. Pal. germ. 848: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift = Codex Manesse

fol. 300r: (Burchard) Von Wengen*

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

*according to wikipedia: “Burchard [first name], fl. 1230s–1270s, member of a family of ministeriales of the counts of Toggenburg”

13th century (mid-1240s or ca.1250) France, Paris

New York, The Pierpoint Morgan Library

Ms M. 638 - Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible

fol. 4r - Lot escapes from Sodom with his two daughter, his wife (in pink) turns into a pillar of salt

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=200