#medieval miniature

[artwins]

medieval manuscript commission for @/kathrynthehuman.bsky.social

[baudouinette]

More WIPs ✨

(On pause while I have to finish something else 🫣👑)

•After all, bc I wanted to draw the codex manesse with Baldwin (and Lluna), I decided to start drawing some of them in a collage, for convenience. But I also would like them as individual pieces so im not sure how to go about it

•The elamite masks ✨

•from this video that i was obsessed with a few years ago

•Ignore the sword angle, I have to change it. The banner will have a jerusalem cross ofc. The original draft of this is from long ago, and I started making it with his movie look, the scene of him entering Kerak which is one of my favorite shots. But then I decided to adapt it more to my stories, give him a white caftan-tunic (will have golden embroidery running down the center) and another, short sleeved caftan underneath, indigo blue to match the turban… which has lore in HCW.

•Elf Baldwin in Lothlórien

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and he is finally here!!

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shdjsjsjsjjd i have a few of these that make me laugh

One of my relatively close Irish ancestors is called McAnally for example 😭😭😭 and one of the byzantines (an antecesor of the Komnenos dynasty) is called ✨ Erotikos ✨

I have been seriously building my family tree since 2016, and the amount of names in my head is just ridiculous—sometimes I can visualize the tree in it and navigate thru it, a couple of times I even dreamed about it 💀. But it can get too much. That’s why I didn’t even remember that Fulk was there, in various branches of it. And i don’t think I ever realized that Renaud was there too—i wish I hadn’t Hhhahahahahahhah

My dream is to meet some ancestors 🥲 so thats why im writing Vide Cor Meum, a time travel Baldwin x OC that expresses this wish, by having the OC discover them (in an Assassin’s Creed typa way) and it’s like a mystery adventure kind of story, in part

[cuties-in-codices]

a strange battlefield

in "le secret de l'histoire naturelle [...]", illuminated manuscript, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Français 22971, fol. 47r

[alvarobarcala]

“Marriage Between Heaven and Earth”. Álvaro Barcala, 2025.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBearDay: the usual story in the medieval bestiary tells of bear cubs being born as shapeless lumps, which the mother must then "lick into shape" (yes that's the origin of that expression!).

France, c. 1450, MMW 10 B 25 folio 11v

[sihayart]

"That's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!" 🐇

[little-desi-historian]

A miniature from the Spassky Gospels, Yaroslavl, made in the 1220s.

(Kievan-Rus. Modern day Kyiv, Ukraine).

Credit to @medievalfantasyqueen for finding this and the citation.

[tout-toutdesuite]

Missal 515, choral music.