Manuscript Art

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The Lindisfarne Gospels - folio 2vBack to my favourite book.  The carpet page introduction incipit o

LJS 255 -  Manuscript leaf from De casibus virorum illustriumLeonardo da Vinci used to say that “Art

The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.  Miniature from the Hortus Deliciarum (Garden of Delights)

Herrad of Landsberg (1130-1195), ‘Depiction of Hell’, from “Hortus Deliciarum&rdqu

ArachneOvide Moralisé, Paris ca. 1330Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5069, fol. 78r

hellmouthApocalypse, Belgium ca. 1313BnF, Français 13096, fol. 86r

Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert. Folio 60r. Dated around 1170. Saint Cuthbert heals a sick girl by

Carpet page from The Lindisfarne Gospels introducing the Gospel of Matthew - made for “God and St Cu

Symbols representing the Zodiac from The York PsalterFolios 1-5, Origin; England 1260Add MS 54179, I

Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma (Italian; 1457–1505)ca. 1500Tempera a

Emperor Frederick II a.k.a Stupor Mundi is one of my favourites among Medieval rulers. I regard him

The Harley Psalter- folio 5v.The beautiful script of the Anglo Saxon scribe Eadui Basan.  Likely mad

Portable Qur’an Manuscript, Islamic ArtMedium: Ink and gold on paper; leather bindingGift of Joseph

Qur'an Manuscript, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic ArtGift of Philip Hofer, 1937Metropolitan Mus

Chesta Chatura Nayaka (The Hero Who is Clever in Actionattributed to Kripal of Nurpur, Pahari 1660–7

deathandmysticism:Wilhelm von Zimmern, Zimmerische Totentanz, ca. 1540-50

delphinidin4:Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485 (Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470)

16th-century artillery manuals demonstrating how to use cats and birds to set fire to besieged citie

The Siyer-i Nebi manuscript; a Turkish epic about the life of Muhammad, illustrated by Lütfi Abdulla

wrestlersLuttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340British Library, Add 42130, fol. 54v

Tara (active 1557-1577) ‘Umar Defeats a Dragon’, from “Hamzanama”, 1557-58“T

bear clubGaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th centuryBnF, Français 616, fol. 27v

wild catsGaston Phébus, Le Livre de la chasse, Bruges ca. 1485Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169, f

self-circumcision of AbrahamHours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480BnF, Latin 920, fol. 56v

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