Beautiful Illuminated Manuscripts

[memories-of-ancients]

"The Book of Hours" by Geert Grote, late 15th-early 16th century

from The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Codex Rotundus “266 almost perfectly circular pages of parchment have been bound together to build a block of 3cm height with a diameter of only 9cm.”

The initials of the metal clasps point us to Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425 - 1492) as the owner.

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Philip II. Sentencias y carta executoria de hidalguía apedimento da Alonso de Angulo, vezino de la villa de Atienca : manuscript, 1577.

MS Typ 515

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Bonet, Honoré, fl. 1378-1398. L'arbre des batailles : manuscript, [ca. 1400-1450].

MS Typ 61

Houghton Library, Harvard University,

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For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.

- Luke 1: 44

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Breviary (Hungary, 1481).

Made for Domonkos Kálmáncsehi, provost of Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

Images and text information courtesy The Morgan Library and Museum.

[arcane-offerings]

Pierre le Rouge for Antoine Vérard, Danse Macabre, Paris, c. 1491-92.

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O quam pulchra est casta generátio cum claritáte!

O how lovely and glorious is the generation of the chaste.

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The Blessed Trinity with the Saints

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St Nicholas Restoring Three Youths to Life

[propaganda-fide]

Hodie Christus natus est This day Christ is born

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Adorn thy bridal-chamber, O Sion, and welcome Christ the King: with loving embrace greet Mary who is the very gate of heaven; for she bringeth to thee the glorious King of the new light: remaining ever a Virgin yet she bearest in her arms the Son begotten before the day-star: even the Child, whom Simeon taking into his arms, declared to the peoples to be the Lord of life and death, and the Saviour of the world.

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Miniature of a winged queen offering a crimson robe to a helmeted black man who emerges from a muddy pool. Splendor Solis. Alchemical codex ~ 1582 • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

[feuerschutz]

Jean Fouquet (1420–1478/81), a French painter and book illustrator.

The images are not mine. All credits belong to their authors.

Die Bilder stammen nicht von mir. Alle Rechte liegen bei den jeweiligen Autoren.

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Title: Book of Hours

Maker(s): Master of Fitzwilliam 268; artist

Category: illuminated manuscript, use of Rome; liturgical use

Date: circa 1475

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Peterborough Psalter, Opening of Psalm 1, 14th century. Bibliothéque Royal, Brussels, Belgium

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Title: The Stay of Honor, by Octovian DE SAINT-GELAIS; in prose and verse.

Publication date: 1401-1500 Description: Copy dedicated to Charles VIII. - Many miniatures. - A note by Mouchet, at the head of the volume, reports that “this manuscript was part of the library bequeathed by Camille de Neufville, archbishop of Lyon, to the Trinity College of Lyon.

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