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24 ⚜ sunny side of the Alps ⚜ historian ⚜ medieval history enthusiast ⚜ sacral architecture enthusiast

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The Gotha Missal: Fol. 41v, Text, Master of the Boqueteaux, c. 1375, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

This elegant Latin manuscript is known today as the Gotha Missal after its eighteenth-century owners, the German Dukes of Gotha. The volume was originally copied and illuminated in Paris around 1375—a commission of the Valois king, Charles V “the Wise” (reigned 1364–80), one of the great bibliophiles of the 1400s and brother of Dukes Philip the Bold of Burgundy and Jean de Berry. Manuscript missals were not intended for the lay user; the present volume was used by the king’s private chaplain and was probably housed in Charles’s private chapel, possibly in his principle residence, the Palace of the Louvre (demolished in the 1500s). The main decorative body of the missal consists of two full-page miniatures comprising the Canon of the Mass and 23 small miniatures. The style and high quality of the decoration points to its inclusion within a select group of manuscripts accepted today by the hand of Jean Bondol. Bondol was active at the court of Charles V from 1368 until 1381, where he was head of the court workshop and also served as the king’s valet de chambre. The blind-tooled leather binding dates to the 1400s. Size: Codex: 27.1 x 19.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.) Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding

https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.287.41.b

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Eltham Palace

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Annunciation, 1467, Hans Memling

Medium: oil,panel

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Missale: Fol. 184: Foliage, Bartolommeo Caporali, 1469, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Size: Overall: 35 x 25 cm (13 ¾ x 9 13/16 in.) Medium: ink, tempera and burnished gold on vellum

https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.154.184.a

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inside the St. Marien Cathedral

Zwickau (Saxony), Germany

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Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 5v, April calendar illustration, Guillaume Le Rouge, 1510, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Medium: 112 Printed folios on parchment, bound

https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.5.b

[shisasan]

𝙴𝚍𝚐𝚊𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚘𝚎, 𝚄𝚕𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚎 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟺𝟽)

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Window Tintern Abbey Tintern Monmouthshire Wales by Joe Daniel Price

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The Gotha Missal: Fol. 141r, Text, Master of the Boqueteaux, c. 1375, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

This elegant Latin manuscript is known today as The Gotha Missal after its eighteenth-century owners, the German Dukes of Gotha. The volume was originally copied and illuminated in Paris around 1375 – a commission of the Valois king, Charles V “the Wise” (1364-1380), one of the great bibliophiles of the fifteenth century and brother of Dukes Philip the Bold of Burgundy and Jean de Berry. Manuscript missals were not intended for the lay user, but rather for the use of the celebrant at Mass. The present volume was therefore meant to be used by the king’s private chaplain and was probably housed in Charles’s private chapel, possibly in his principle residence, the Palace of the Louvre (demolished in the sixteenth century). The main decorative body of the missal consists of two full-page miniatures comprising the Canon of the Mass and twenty-three small miniatures. The style and high quality of the decoration points to its inclusion withing a select group of manuscripts accepted today as from the hand of Jean Bondol. Bondol was active at the court of Charles V from 1368 until 1381 where he headed the court workshop and also served as the king’s valet de chambre. The blind-tooled leather binding dates to the fifteenth century. Size: Codex: 27.1 x 19.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.) Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding

https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.287.141.a

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saints

Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480

BnF, Latin 920, fol. 180r

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Badgley Mischka Spring 2016

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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 155v, Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian, c. 1500, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who painted the majority of the book’s miniatures. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for the decoration of their borders, which typically feature a rich variety of realistically-painted flowers, birds, and butterflies. This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person-in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451-1504). Isabella’s coat of arms embellishes the book’s frontispiece. It is unlikely that the book was commissioned by the Queen herself; rather, she probably received it as a diplomatic gift from someone courting her patronage, perhaps Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. A Franciscan friar, Jimenez was dependent upon Isabella for his advancement, first to the post of Queen’s confessor in 1492, and then to Archbishop of Toledo in 1495. Size: Codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.) Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256.155.b

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The Wilton Diptych, circa 1395-1399, National Gallery, London