#manuscript illumination

[cy-lindric]

An angel. Alchemy treaty Aurora Consurgens, 1420-1450

#medieval redraw #alchemy #angel #manuscript illumination #My interpretation of the general iconography is probably very off so take it purely as an aesthetic pursuit lol #all of this is alchemical allegory #i recommend looking up the other weirdo miniatures from this manuscript it slaps

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval stores (& personified virtues)

from a copy of the encyclopedic "trésor" by brunetto latini, illuminated by the "master of the geneva latini", rouen, c. 1450-80

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r

#15th century #brunetto latini #trésor #Book of Treasures #markets #medieval markets #medieval professions #medieval towns #virtues #encyclopedias #master of the geneva latini #Meister der Genfer Latini #medieval art #manuscript illumination

[lionofchaeronea]

Joan of Arc on Horseback (illumination from fol. 76v of Antoine Dufour's Lives of Celebrated Women), Jean Pichore, 1506

#art #art history #Middle Ages #medieval #medieval art #medieval history #Joan of Arc #Jeanne d'Arc #Hundred Years War #illustration #portrait #manuscript illumination #illuminated manuscript #equestrian portrait #Jean Pichore #French art #16th century art #Musee Dobree

[u-mspcoll]

Upcoming Exhibit and Lecture: Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut

Valerius Maximus (1st c. AD). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Italy. 15th c. Parchment,126 fols. Fol. 5r

Full-page illumination from Carta Executoria de hidalguia de sangre a pedimento de Don Juan de Mansilla como curador de Doña Francisca de Mansilla, hija de Baltasar de Mansilla, vecinos de la villa de Aranda de Duero. Valladolid, 1636 Parchment, 93 fols. Fol. 2r

Full-page woodcut depicting the procession of Priapus, the Greek god of animal and vegetable fertility. Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile Ed: Jean Martin Paris: Jean le Blanc for Jacques Kerver, 1561 Fol. 69r. Loan courtesy of William P. Heidrich

Come explore a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts! The display will be up in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room from 6 September to 14 December.

And join us on Wednesday 13 September at 4p in the Hatcher Gallery event space or on zoom a for lecture based on the exhibit.

We hope to see you there!

#events #exhibits #special collections #special collections libraries #libraries #archives #libraries and archives #special collections and archives #manuscripts #manuscript culture #early printed books #book illustrations #illustrated books #illustrations #illumination #illuminated manuscripts #manuscript illumination #woodcuts

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Limbourg Brothers, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry: fol. 8v, August (Falconry with the Château d'Étampes in the background), ca. 1412-1416, watercolor and pigment on vellum (Musée Conde, Chantilly)

#limbourg brothers #manuscript illumination #manuscript #book of hours #medieval #15th century #illuminated manuscript

[muspeccoll]

#WordyWednesday

Illumination: The art of decorating books by hand, ranging from simple elaborations of letters with crosshatching to full-blown miniature landscapes drawn in the margins. Illumination is an art that was predominantly practiced in the Middle Ages, but it is still alive today. Medieval illuminators are (in)famous for their sense of whimsy and there are entire social media sites dedicated to ferreting out amusing illuminations of knights riding on snails, monkeys performing medical procedures, and cats engaging in household chores.

Image: Catholic Church. Processional (for the use of the Dominican sisters of St. Louis, Poissy). Paris: approximately 1510-1540. BX2032 .A2 1510z

(via Half bound — Italic · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

#bookhistory #medieval manuscript #manuscript illumination #illuminated manuscript #illumination #rare books #special collections #mizzou #university of missouri #libraries #john henry #columbia mo

[heaveninawildflower]

A Bird on a Hazel Branch (1651).

Miniature by Shafi' Abbasi (1628–1674).

David Collection

Wikimedia.

#Shafi' Abbasi #bird illustration #17th century art #Iranian art #manuscript illumination #sfahan

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (11/23/22) Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active c 1480-1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate (c. 1475-80) Tempera colors & ink on parchment, 17.5 x 19.4 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

"The Memorable Deeds and Sayings of the Romans," a compilation of stories about ancient customs and heroes written in the first century CE by Valerius Maximus, was widely used in the Middle Ages as a textbook for rhetoric. This large miniature appeared at the beginning of book two, "Concerning Morals and Customs." In a spacious dining hall, Valerius, dressed in blue on the left, instructs the Emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated his book, on the value of temperance. Valerius points out the joyous and intemperate peasants at the front table, who cavort wildly, drink, fall down, and sleep. In contrast, the nobles in the back are models of temperance: evenly spaced at the orderly table, their bodies rigid, they eat with great sobriety. Through this contrast the illuminator suggested that nobles are inherently more temperate, an interpretation that does not derive from the text. Yet in the hands of the witty Master of the Dresden Prayer Book, the bad example of the pleasure-loving peasants is easily the more endearing one.

For more Medieval European art, visit this MWW Special Collection: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=TheMuseumWithoutWalls&set=a.419770264795015  

#Master of the Dresden Prayer Book #Temperate and the Intemperate #flemish artist #medieval art #manuscript illumination

[fox-teeth]

Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

#Basilisk is in the process of restocking FYI for anyone that wants both :) #risograph #color chart #medieval #marginalia #medieval manuscripts #medieval art #illuminated manuscript #printmaking #monsters

[petroniuspdf]

The Danaïdes murder their husbands

Robinet Testard (1470-1531)

#robinet testard #manuscript illumination #illuminated manuscript #mine

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

gonna put the progress of this thing in its own post

so we start with references

then i figure out my layouts and start sketchin, putting the text down first after initial drafting

then i gotta fully flesh out all of the illustrative bits with pencil sketching. we got the holy gritty with his holy hockey staff and flyers pendant, little bits of orange dashed onto there, designing the flyers logo wherever i can

then we get black inking on there, bit more orange as well. normally i get kinda heartbroken when I smear a bit of ink here or there by mistake, even patch to fix mistakes sometimes.

But I'm gonna be real. The small blots match too well with the overall energy of the piece

the next image will be the fully completed piece!

#calligraphy #shitpost #gritty #long post #illuminated manuscript #hockey

[lucybellwood]

hi sorry s'cuse me but were NONE OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS???

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

i can't

#illuminated manuscript #goth as fuck #medieval #illumination #calligraphy #book arts #wowowowow

[cuties-in-codices]

the boiling of the king

in a copy of the alchemical treatise "splendor solis", germany, c. 1577

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allemand 113, fol. 23v

#alchemy #16th century #renaissance #illuminated manuscript #splendor solis #manuscript illumination #alchemical illustration #occultism

[lionofchaeronea]

Map of Hell, Sandro Botticelli, 1480s

#art #art history #Botticelli #Sandro Botticelli #illuminated manuscript #manuscript illumination #Dante #Dante Alighieri #Divine Comedy #Hell #Dante's Inferno #Renaissance #Renaissance art #Italian Renaissance #Florentine Renaissance #Quattrocento #Italian art #15th century art #Vatican Library

[u-mspcoll]

An Extraordinary New Acquisition!

We are delighted to announce an important recent acquisition made possible by the generosity of Katharine J. Kilgour: a manuscript containing the texts of a Book of Hours and a Psalter. Written in Latin and French, it was exquisitely illuminated by one of the leading miniaturists working in Paris in the first two decades of the sixteenth century: Jean Coene IV.  Read more!

Detail of miniature by Jean Coene IV, "Lamentation over the Dead Christ", in the opening of the Office of our Lady of Compassion, f. 28. Book of Hours & Psalter. Parchment manuscript, 256 folios. Paris, ca. 1505-1515.

#illuminated manuscripts #manuscript illumination #medieval manuscripts #book of hours #books of hours #psalter #new acquisition #acquisitions #acquisition #libraries and archives #libraries #special collections #special collections libraries #special collections and archives #archives

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Unknown Mughal Artist, Hamzanama: Baba Junayd is Rude to Umar and Turns Him Away from the Caravanserai, ca. 1570, watercolor on cotton rag paper (Smithsonian: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

#mughal #art #manuscript #manuscript illumination #miniature painting #indian art #16th century