#the illuminator

[retrocgads]

USA 1990

[roach-works]

the 50$ sword i got from a shady flea market was diagnosed to be a wall-hanger rather than a prop so i spent today making it the prettiest wall-hanger in the land

[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)

[suntails]

✨ Once upon a time ✨

[fairycosmos]

it is what it is *throws up blood*

[monstermonger]

Scripture of the Elden Beast

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)

Held by Dombibliothek Hildesheim, Germany.

source

[spleenomane]

Currently obsessed with these naturalistic illuminations from a manuscript of De Proprietatibus Rerum (1447, Bibliothèque d'Amiens, ms. 399). I just know that whoever commisioned this must have hired the nearest artist with an insane obsession for birds before proper birdwatching was even a thing. They hired the nearest De arte venandi cum avibus fanboy.

Like, the fact that despite the stylized drawings you can clearly tell that these are a corvus corax, a corvus cornix?! Hello?!?!

I love you, unknown french artist from the 15th century.

Edit: a couple people made me rightfully notice that what I thought could be a carrion crow, in absence of better candidates, could actually be a coloeus monedula, a jackdaw, and that either way it doesn't even match the text it is meant to represent as it was a total misinterpretation of it. Just to let everyone know!

Still love these paintings and these corvids.

[krossan]

the adorkable Gwen from the movie Migration gave SO MANY VIBES of how I portrait Danielle. I had to.

[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

[yeoldenews]

The title of a short story about a French girl who sprays a man with a garden hose.

(source: The Philadelphia Times, April 12, 1891)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

WIP Update

kay my calendar says I'm gonna release this design on the 4th, so I'm officially opening the ticket on this project:

[cy-lindric]

An angel. Alchemy treaty Aurora Consurgens, 1420-1450

[cuties-in-codices]

absalom caught by his hair, hanging from a tree

"Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s hair got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going." - 2 Samuel 18:9 (NIV)

illustration from a manuscript copy of the weltchronik by rudolf von ems, zurich, early 14th c.

source: St. Gallen, Kantonsbibl., VadSlg Ms. 302, fol. 186v

[noco3n-com]

「 Winter illumination in Tokyo 」