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1492

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 16827 - Missel romain, copié en 1492 pour Jean de Foix - 378r

source

#medieval #kirtle #maiden #pink #pink dress #bnf #bnflat16827 #1490s #15th century

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ca. 1200, Millstatt Abbey (Carinthia - Austria)

Kärntner Landesarchiv

a couple embracingsource

#bliaut #love #illuminated manuscript #medieval #braid #lovers #Austria #12th century #13th century #1200

jeannepompadour

Ilustration from De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio in an anonymous French translation from Rouen, c. 1440

#reblogs #de mulieribus #15th century

jeannepompadour

Ilustration from De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio in an anonymous French translation from Rouen, c. 1440

#reblogs #15th century #De mulieribus

selection of some dancing Salomes

1. bronze door, Verona, Basilica di San Zeno

2. Bourges cathedral

3. 1310-20 British Library, Royal 2 B VII (Queen Mary Psalter), fol. 264v

4. ca. 1200-25 British Library, Arundel 157, fol. 7r

5. St John in Mustair

6. c. 1325-50 British Library, YatesThompson 13, fol. 106v

#Salome #medieval #dance #feast of Herod #illumination

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ca. 1508-1538

British Library, Add MS 20927: The 'Stuart de Rothesay Hours', use of Rome

119v - the Three Living and the Three Dead

source (BL)

read more for my failed attempt at a hilarious RPG reference!

#Book of Hours #16th century #epic battle commences #horses #dogs #the Three Living and the Three Dead #British Library #BLaddms #BLAddMS20927 #Stuart de Rothesay Hours

15th century Italy

Bastia Mondovi, Chiesa di San Fiorenzo

Episodes from the Life of St Anthony Abbot (?) (frescoes)

source (flickr, Andrea Carloni)

Always remember to keep your women at a walking stick's length.

#come hither #fresco #Italy #15th century #seduction #temptation #belt #shoes #beard #kirtle #chemise #stockings #hose #women's hose #horns #lust #not an illumination

1470s

Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 3187

fol. 139v - office of the dead

source

#book of hours #zombie #walking dead #15th century #riding #horse #1470s #bnf #bnfnal #bnfnal3187

ca. 1310 East Anglia

Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Douce 366: Ormesby Psalter

fol. 131r

source (LUNA)

Yes, I know what you're all thinking. It's a dagger.

1400-7 France, Paris

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 7907 A

Eunuchus by Publius Terentius Afer

fol. 30r, 30v, 34r, 35r

Click here for a summary of the plot.

#Terence #kirtle #blue #medieval #illumination #illuminated manuscript #15th century fashion #1400-7 #1400s #Publius Terentius Afer #Eunuchus #bnf #bnflat #bnflat7907A #French #Paris #bycocket #hood #eunuch

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ca. 1416 statue of Jeanne de Boulogne, Duchess of Berry (c.1378-c.1424), by Jean de Cambrai (d.1438), currently situated in the Bourges Cathedral

source1, source2 (by louis.foecy.fr on Flickr)

source3 (by Philippe_28 (maintenant sur ipernity) on flickr)

1523-4 drawing of the same by Hans Holbein the Younger

source (wikimedia commons)

#houppelande #Bourges Cathedral #Jean de Cambrai #15th century #1416 #1410s #sculpture #statue #kneeling #Jeanne de Boulogne #Hans Holbein the Younger #Hans Holbein #drawing #patterned fabric #green #collar #necklace

14th century (1341) Austria, St. Pölten

Herward von St. Andreae

unspecified manuscript, initial V

source (imareal)

#14th century #cauls #hairnet #initial #medieval #medieval fashion #initial V

circa 1300, Catalonia

details of a ceiling panel:

1. a couple playing a board game

2. a musician (male) and an acrobat/dancer (female)

Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

source

A beautiful - if a bit deteriorated - example of early 14th century Spanish (Catalan) fashions (and also of medieval concept of courtly fun).

#Catalan #14th century #medieval fashion #MNAC #dance #acrobatics #surcote #sleeveless surcote #buttons #cote #cotte #musician #music #games #board game #Catalonia #Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya #1300

late 14th or early 15th century (1392-1410) Slovenia?

Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia - detail of a fresco in the parish church of St. Martin in Martjanci, Slovenia; by workshop of Johannes von Aquila

http://tethys.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/

no. 011000

#Slovenia #late medieval #lacing #belt #veil #Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia #Martjanci #fresco #patterned fabric #late 14th century #crown #lacing-front #lacing-elbows

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

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

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

fol. 76v - Herr Heinrich von Morungen

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

#codex manesse #lapdog #fillet #barbette #bed #Heinrich von Morungen #plaid #coat of arms #little white dog #vair #pillow #chaplet #cloak #14th century #Switzerland #Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg #Cod. Pal. germ. 848:

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14th century

Bibliothèque nationale de FranceFrançais 343: 'La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus' by Gautier Map

fol. 49v

#14th century #Gautier Map #horse #riding #medieval #blonde hair #maille #plumes #women riding #women riding astride #horse tack #bnf #bnffr #bnffr343 #pelerine

edralis

ca. 1588 portrait of a man AKA “Man Among Flames” by Nicholas Hilliard

This one must have been very popular among the ladies.

source

illumanu

There's nothing that screams self-confidence louder than letting yourself be painted in your underwear - unbuttoned halfway to the navel, no less-, showing off your alabaster-white skin and artfully tumbled hair while being engulfed in flames.*

Oh, Renaissance England.

*also, conspicuously fingering fancy jewelry

#late 16th century #16th century

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