#fifteenthcentury

Can you see Fortune with her wheel, sat atop 'the tree of suffering'? Such amazing detail of battles and leadership in this 15th C copy of L’Arbre des Batailles

Fra Angelico, The Mocking of Christ, 1439-1443, fresco, cell 7, San Marco Convent

#WoodcutWednesday, featuring the two-page illustration of Nuremberg from our copy of the Liber chronicarum, 1493. ⠀ ⠀ #woodcut #printmaking #nuremberg #books #illustration #printing #incunables #bookhistory #fifteenthcentury #specialcollections #rarebooks #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #universityofmissouri #mizzou (at Ellis Library, University of Missouri Libraries)

Piero della Francesca, The Legend of the True Cross, Burial of the Wood, c. 1452-1466, fresco

Happy New Year! What better way to celebrate than with one of our favorite #manicules? In a copy printed by Nicolas Jenson, no less!⠀ ⠀ From [Virorum illustrium uitae ex Plutarcho graeco in latinum uersae solertiq[ue] cura emendatae foeliciter expliciu[n]t : per Nicolaum Ienson Gallicum Venetiis i[m]pressae. M. cccc. lxxviii. die. ii. Ianuarii]. PA4373 .V6 1478 ⠀ ⠀ #manicule #manicula #hands #pointingfingers #books #bookhistory #marginalia #incunables #incunabula #fonts #typography #fifteenthcentury #specialcollections #rarebooks #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #universityofmissouri #mizzou⠀ (at Ellis Library)

Loving the colour combination on this custom made arming doublet with matching bolero, featuring 6mm pin riveted maille voiders #maille #chainmail #arming #doublet #fifteenthcentury #medieval #reenactment #history https://www.instagram.com/p/CGPyTc5HmqI/?igshid=uelwrncuzv19

Custom red linen bolero with black finish pin riveted maille voiders #maille #chainmail #fifteenthcentury #waroftheroses #reenactment #historical #history https://www.instagram.com/p/CGF1kioHVp_/?igshid=5bvdn94ay9nf