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Archangel Michael 🇺🇦 fighting the dragon
Prayer book of Henri de Valois, Tours c. 1500
Kraków, MNK, 3020 I, p. 335
#angel#medieval art#art#illuminated manuscript#medieval#Middle Ages#Ukraine#archangel#devil#dragon#book#painting
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Out and in
Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485
Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470
#dog#animal#manuscript#15th century#medieval#medieval art#art#middle ages#book#book art#marginalia#illuminated manuscript
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snailfight
book of hours, Metz c. 1295
Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1588, fol. 139v
#snail#marginalia#medieval art#medieval#snailfight#13th century#book#book of hours#middle ages#art#illuminated manuscript#manuscript
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long-eared bat
Psalter, England c. 1360-1400
Bodleian Library, Exeter College MS 47, fol. 21v
#animals#medieval art#medieval#middle ages#art#manuscript#illuminated manuscript#15th century#book#bat#marginalia#psalter
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eyes squeezing
Orlando di Lasso, Septem psalmi poenitentiales, München 1565
BSB, Mus.ms. A I, p. 27
#renaissance#art#illuminated manuscript#Illustration#book#manuscript#16th century#renaissance art#music#early music#orlando di lasso#lassus
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martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
Hungarian Anjou legendary, Italy or Hungary c. 1325-1335
NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.360.21
#medieval#art#martyr#saint#flaying#skincare#14th century#book#medieval art#middle ages#smile#manuscript
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harpist
antiphonal, Cambrai or Tournai c. 1260-1270
LA, Getty Museum, Ms. 44/Ludwig VI 5, p. 115
#harp#ass#donkey#music#early music#medieval#art#medieval music#medieval art#illuminated manuscript#book#13th century#antiphonal
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dragon litany
book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 128r
#dragon#dragons#medieval art#manuscript#illuminated manuscript#art#medieval#book#14th century#book of hours
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temptation of Christ
'Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk', Austria c. 1340
Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 8, fol. 42r
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rebuilding time
French translation of Flavius Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews", Paris c. 1410-1420
BnF, Français 247, fol. 163r
#cathedral#temple#notre dame#Paris#15th century#medieval art#medieval bestiary#art#illuminated manuscript#manuscripts#book#medieval#middle ages#history
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the cathedral
"Hours of Étienne Chevalier", Tours c. 1452-1460
NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.2490
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black hole
Hours of Louis de Laval, France c. 1480
BnF, Latin 920, fol. 2v
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false prophets (Revelation 16:13)
'Queen Mary Apocalypse', England c. 1300-1325
BL, Royal MS 19 B XV, fol. 30v
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massacred innocents
prayer book, Upper Swabia 1476
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.brev.12, fol. 62v
#martyrs#babies#innocent#heaven#sword#saint#medieval art#art#medieval#middle ages#15th century#book#illuminated manuscript#manuscript
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head or tail?
book of hours, Bruges c. 1500
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 68r
#marginalia#hybrid#monster#medieval#art#medieval art#middle ages#illuminated manuscript#book#15th century#manuscript
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