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illustratus · 1 month

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Chaos. The Genesis — by Ivan Aivazovsky

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houghtonlib · 2 months

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Marginal animals from a medieval breviary.

Ordo breviarii secundum consuetudinem Romane curie : manuscript, [ca. 1480]

MS Typ 219

Houghton Library, Harvard University

#medieval #manuscript #15th century #illuminated #bookhistory

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theancientwayoflife · 21 days

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~ Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft.

Artist/Maker: Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died ca. 1479, active about 1451-1479)

Date: ca. 1469

Place of origin: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink.

#history #museum #15th century #15th century art #middle ages #illuminated manuscript #illuminated #book of hours #folio #manuscript #mary magdalene #maria magdalena #Taddeo Crivelli #getty #ca. 1469

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theshitpostcalligrapher · 1 month

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progress of a commission

so these are pieces I was commissioned for a month or so back, and to prevent a ruining-of-a-surprise, I queued this post 3 weeks ago (aka around when I sent it out in the mail)

The commissioner wanted to get two matching pieces that read "It's a Corpus, not an archive" for her and a friend, both getting PHDs.

First, I draft and put the text to paper, since oftentimes the text is actually the quickest part. Then I do WIP sketches for the specifics the commissioner.

Here, we're going for a particular cat (I get reference images), a heddgehog, and a pile of archival papers and books. Then, since there are two of them, one gets the arms of navarre and the other gets a bookbinding frame

then we have the drafting for all the borders, which, in this case, was a combination of sage and mint

finalize designs for both, and finish out the black ink linework:

then all the colour, leaf detailing, etc

et voila! not identical, but rather matching pieces of commission!

#calligraphy #art #illuminated

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babyfoxcollectionthings · 6 months

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#travel #citys #night #nightview #nightscape #night lights #nightlife #illuminated

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thebeautifulbook · 10 months

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KING FRANÇOIS I BOOK OF HOURS (1578)

A dazzling masterpiece of the French Renaissance.

This small prayer book is bound in enamelled gold and gemstones. It was purchased in 1538 by King Francis I of France as a gift for his niece. The gems consist of carnelian (two intaglios and eight cameos), rubies (27 polished pieces), turquoise (24 cabochons) and rhodolite (one faceted stone in the book’s clasp that has been described as tourmaline since 1942). Most of the rubies were mined from the Mogok area of Burma (now Myanmar). Based on historical considerations, the turquoise could have originated from Persia or possibly Uzbekistan, and the carnelian from either India or Saxony. The faceted rhodolite from India or Sri Lanka, was most likely added to the clasp between 1842 and 1884. [view large]

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #book of hours #treasure binding #book binding #book design #french #jeweled #illuminated manuscript #illuminated

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kiersau · 5 months

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Here's to one year with Pentiment!

#pentiment #my art #yes i reused the labyrinth from my last piece leave me alone I started this yesterday #pentiment birthday #pentiment anniversary #illuminated #happy pentiment anniversary

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allura-raine · 1 year

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upennmanuscripts · 13 days

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WE UNBOXED THE PETRARCH

Watch!

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It's a c. 1470s copy of Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Made in the Workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. More information in the sales description.

#unboxing #manuscript #medieval #renaissance #italian #illuminated #petrarca #petrarch #video #Youtube

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minimalphotographs · 3 months

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