Öhringen Obleibuch saec. XV, see also http://archivalia.tumblr.com/post/11986372564/oehringen-obleibuch-in-the
Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a beautiful calendar for May from a stunning manuscript called the The Hours of René d’Anjou which is in the collection of the British Library.
Image source: British Library MS.Egerton 1070. Image declared as public domain on the British Library website.
Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 2657, Benedictiones pontificales, saec. XI: http://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/view/bsg_ms2657
Detail of a miniature of the allegorical personifications of Friendly Expression and Courteous Manner, catching flighty hearts in their net; from Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d’Amour, France (Paris and Lyon), c. 1500, Stowe MS 955, f. 13r
Sibilla von Bondorf, saec. XV: “A nun called Sibilla von Bondorf, a member of the Poor Clares in Freiburg, copied and illustrated this manuscript in German in 1478. The text is the life of St Francis written by Bonaventura. Here Bonaventura, in a depiction of a classical author portrait, is composing his text, and sees a vision of Francis displaying the stigmata.” British Library, Additional 15710, f.4 (detail)
Cover of the Gospel Book of Otto III (with tenth-century Byzantine ivory panel) c. 1000
The crossing of cultures (Western/Latin and Eastern/Byzantine)
The Gospels of Otto III (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453) is a late 10th or early 11th century illuminated Gospel Book. The manuscript contains the Vulgate versions of the four gospels plus prefatory matter including the Eusebian canon tables. The manuscript is a major example of Ottonian illumination. It was produced at Reichenau Abbey in the workshop headed by the monk Liuthard. The manuscript has 276 folios which measure 334mm by 242mm. The illumination includes a page miniature of the enthrone Otto III being brought gifts by personifications of the four provinces of the Empire, Roma, Gallia, Germania, and Sclavinia. The manuscript contains an additional 34 miniatures, including four evangelist portraits. In addition there are 12 decorated pages of canon tables, and each gospel is introduced by a full page decorated incipit page.
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bagpiping dog
(playing during the funeral procession of Reynard the Fox… above prayers to the Holy Mary and St. John the Evangelist from the Hours of Jesus Crucified)
book of hours, England ca. 1300 (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 75v)
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Pretty medieval manuscript of the day depicts the hurly burly of a medieval battle.
Image source: British Library MS Egerton 745. Image declared as public domain on the British Library website.
Pretty medieval manuscript of the day depicts the demise of a unicorn, sometimes thought to be an allegory for the passion of Christ. Here, the unicorn lies passive in the arms of a virgin whilst the brutal knight spears it.
The book is a collection of theological texts compiled during the thirteenth century. It is now in the collections of the British Library in London.
Image source: British Library MS Harley 3244. Image declared as public domain on the British Library website.
