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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Nativity. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 15v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Nativity. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 15v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Initial ‘R’. Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 3r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Initial ‘R’. Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 3r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land? Book of Hours, Italy, ca. 1480. British Library, Yates Thompson 7, fol. 174. #medieval #MedievalArt
Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land? Book of Hours, Italy, ca. 1480. British Library, Yates Thompson 7, fol. 174.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
The #Moon. astrological and medical miscellany (Codex Schürstab), Nuremberg ca. 1459-1471. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C 54, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt
The #Moon. astrological and medical miscellany (Codex Schürstab), Nuremberg ca. 1459-1471. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C 54, fol. 30v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Frutti di mare. Northumberland Bestiary, London ca. 1250-1260. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 100, fol. 48v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Frutti di mare. Northumberland Bestiary, London ca. 1250-1260. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 100, fol. 48v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Dinner in #hell. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Dinner in #hell. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 38r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 38r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Mushroom initial. breviary, France 15th century. Draguignan, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 190r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Mushroom initial. breviary, France 15th century. Draguignan, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 190r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
The Three Dead. ‘De Lisle Psalter’, England ca. 1310. BL, Arundel 83, fol. 127r. #medieval #MedievalArt
The Three Dead. ‘De Lisle Psalter’, England ca. 1310. BL, Arundel 83, fol. 127r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Infernal brawl. #Apocalypse, France 1220-1270. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 60v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Infernal brawl. #Apocalypse, France 1220-1270. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 60v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Goat-headed rooster. 'Hours of Joanna the Mad', Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 94v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Goat-headed rooster. 'Hours of Joanna the Mad', Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 94v.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Dit des trois morts. ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 259r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Dit des trois morts. ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 259r.
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Owl. Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 447r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Owl. Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 447r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
#Medieval censorship. ‘Mettener Regel’, Germany 1414. München, BSB Clm 8201d, fol. 24r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Medieval censorship. ‘Mettener Regel’, Germany 1414. München, BSB Clm 8201d, fol. 24r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Initial C. Psalter, Canterbury ca. 1210-1220. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1525, fol. 110r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Initial C. Psalter, Canterbury ca. 1210-1220. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1525, fol. 110r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
The lamb. bestiary, England ca. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 21r. #medieval #MedievalArt
The lamb. bestiary, England ca. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 21r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v. #medieval #MedievalArt
bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Rabbits with cell phones? Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 107v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Rabbits with cell phones? Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 107v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Little Bear. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440. BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Little Bear. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440. BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Squirrel on gold. Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, Rouen ca. 1450-1480. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Squirrel on gold. Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, Rouen ca. 1450-1480. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Love wins. Christine de Pisan, ‘L'Epistre Othea la deesse…’, Paris ca. 1406. BnF, Français 606, fol. 6r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Love wins. Christine de Pisan, ‘L'Epistre Othea la deesse…’, Paris ca. 1406. BnF, Français 606, fol. 6r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Death and the maiden. book of hours, Lorraine ca. 1493. BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 3210, fol. 76v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Death and the maiden. book of hours, Lorraine ca. 1493. BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 3210, fol. 76v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Hedgehogs in the vineyard. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 52v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Hedgehogs in the vineyard. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 52v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Hedgehog. Le Bestiaire divin, England 13th century. BL, Egerton 613, fol. 38v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Hedgehog. Le Bestiaire divin, England 13th century. BL, Egerton 613, fol. 38v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Heraldic bat. Jean Mansel, La Fleur des histoires, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5087 réserve, fol. 96v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Heraldic bat. Jean Mansel, La Fleur des histoires, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5087 réserve, fol. 96v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
#Pegasus constellation. Sufi Latinus (Latin translation of ‘Kitāb al-kawākib al-thābita’ of ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī), Bologna 1250-1275. BnF, Arsenal 1036, fol. 16r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Pegasus constellation. Sufi Latinus (Latin translation of ‘Kitāb al-kawākib al-thābita’ of ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī), Bologna 1250-1275. BnF, Arsenal 1036, fol. 16r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Hey #cat. stop licking your butt on the Book of Maccabees or you’ll get an arrow! Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Hey #cat. stop licking your butt on the Book of Maccabees or you’ll get an arrow! Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Black mouse. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century, BL, Stowe 17, fol. 129v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Black mouse. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century, BL, Stowe 17, fol. 129v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Mediebear. Book of hours, Picardy ca. 1460. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 200, fol. 146r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Mediebear. Book of hours, Picardy ca. 1460. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 200, fol. 146r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#Christ on Majesty flanked by two angels blowing trumpets of the Last Judgement and... a little grey guy licking its butt. Missal, Bavaria ca. 1440-1460. New York Public Library, MA 112, fol. 7r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Christ on Majesty flanked by two angels blowing trumpets of the Last Judgement and... a little grey guy licking its butt. Missal, Bavaria ca. 1440-1460. New York Public Library, MA 112, fol. 7r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
#Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Creation of the animals. Holkham Bible, England ca. 1320-1330. BL, Add. 47682, fol. 2v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Creation of the animals. Holkham Bible, England ca. 1320-1330. BL, Add. 47682, fol. 2v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Sign of Pisces. Matfre Ermengau, Breviari d'amor, Occitania ca. 1300-1350. BL, Harley 4940, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Sign of Pisces. Matfre Ermengau, Breviari d'amor, Occitania ca. 1300-1350. BL, Harley 4940, fol. 30v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Crowned cat. Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258. #medieval #MedievalArt
Crowned cat. Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Catwalk. Miracle XXXI: 'How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a little devil on the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem'. Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Catwalk. Miracle XXXI: 'How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a little devil on the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem'. Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Hot bath. Cité de Dieu (French translation of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei), Paris ca. 1475. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 246, fol. 389r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Hot bath. Cité de Dieu (French translation of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei), Paris ca. 1475. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 246, fol. 389r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Melusine making music. book of hours, France 15th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 662, fol. 21r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Melusine making music. book of hours, France 15th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 662, fol. 21r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
#Hell. Speculum humanae salvationis (‘Krumlovský sborník’), Bohemia ca. 1420. Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, III B 10, fol. 47r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Hell. Speculum humanae salvationis (‘Krumlovský sborník’), Bohemia ca. 1420. Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, III B 10, fol. 47r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
#Cat with eyebrows. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 257r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Cat with eyebrows. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 257r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
#Earthquake. #Apocalypse, Normandy ca. 1320-1330 BL, Add 17333, fol. 8r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Earthquake. #Apocalypse, Normandy ca. 1320-1330 BL, Add 17333, fol. 8r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Origen emasculating himself. Roman de la Rose, France 15th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Origen emasculating himself. Roman de la Rose, France 15th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Mandrake. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber, England 12th century. British Library, Harley 5294, fol. 43r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Mandrake. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber, England 12th century. British Library, Harley 5294, fol. 43r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Rabbit and #Goliath. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 7r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Rabbit and #Goliath. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 7r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
#AllSaints. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#AllSaints. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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