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[cuties-in-codices]

floriated initials

from a cistercian processional, produced in the cistercian nunnery günterstal abbey, c. 1600

source: Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. Güntersthal 2

[harminuya]

An Urartian Broze recumbent Bull, 8th-7th cent. BC, Armenia. Private collection of Mr K.A. 

[rosieandthemoon]

At St. Andrew’s in Norfolk

[thesorceresstemple]

Yunnan, 150 BCE

[portalibis]

Beatus a Liebana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, c. 1028 and 1072

P.I. Telegram / P.I. Facebook

[renaissance-art]

Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435

Saint George Killing the Dragon (detail)

[rosieandthemoon]

Winchester Psalter, 1100’s

[hauntedhookah]

Armenian medical manuscript on Horse Healing 13th century

[tridentandtales]

Egyptian palette in form of a fish

ca. 4500–4000 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 17.6.78

[theinternetarchive]

segmentum, egypt, umayyad period c. 700s-900s.

[fashion-of-the-past]

Riding Coat from the court of Saxony, ca. 1601

This riding coat, made of black cloth and decorated with silk, is one of 24 coats ordered for the servants of the Saxon court in 1601. Additional mittens could be pulled over the sleeves during cold weather.

Like most riding coats of that time, this example is double-breasted and closed with hooks and eyes. The back is cut wide to allow the wearer to sit comfortably on the back of a horse without fabric getting in the way.

Today, this garment is exhibited at the Rüstkammer in Dresden, Germany.

[treasures-and-beauty]

Purse depicting lovers, worked in Paris c. 1340, Photo by medievalarchive on Flickr                                                                                    

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe, Turkish, 14th - 15th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[karrova]

Female Saint Holding a Book (detail) by Amico Aspertini

[theinternetarchive]

textile fragment egypt c. 300s-500s a.d.

[apokrify]

St Wendreda is a 14th-century church famous for its “angel roof”, featuring 120 carved figures of martyrs, apostles, saints, and angels. The ornaments were created either at the end of the 15th century or in the first quarter of the 16th century.

[enchantedbook]

Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.