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medieval beds & sheets

collection of 15th c. manuscript illustrations

sources/links: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 388, fol. 8v // Paris, BnF, Français 96, fol. 17r // Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, Ms. 955, fol. 10v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 503, fol. 36v // Paris, BnF, Français 112 (1), fol. 244v // Frankfurt, UB, Ms. germ. qu. 12, fol. 50r // Paris, BnF, Français 119, fol. 398v // Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 91r // Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. fol. 1, fol. 86v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 8010a, fol. 22r // Genève, Bibl. de Genève, Ms. fr. 165, fol. 7r // St. Gallen, Kantonsbibl., VadSlg Ms. 343c, fol. 27r // Paris, BnF, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 12v // Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 210r

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Gilded silver and rock crystal casket decorated with rubies, emeralds, and glass gems, Flemish, circa 1480-1500

from The Walters Art Museum

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Master E. S., The Fool and the Naked Woman with Mirror, ca. 1465

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Henriette von Mömpelgard on a stained glass window in Stiftskirche Tübingen, Germany, c. 1477

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BEHOLD these beautiful dragon-themed plates from 15th-century Spain! These most likely come from the town of Manises, which was renowned for its lusterware. This type of pottery was heavily influenced by Islamic pottery, and the Spanish artisans who made these plates included both Muslims and Christians.

But anyway, DRAGONS!

These images come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone.

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nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue made of four metals

miniature from a manuscript containing the world chronicle by rudolf von ems and other texts, bavaria, c. 1400-1410

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 210r

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Marriage of St. Catherine by Lorenzo Veneziano, 1360, Italy.

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the servant of eternal wisdom kneeling before christ

illustration from a manuscript containing writings by german mystic henry suso (heinrich seuse), constance, c. 1490

source: Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710, fol. 86r

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15th century lake warfare and gunboats

Lake warfare is a less known art of warfare in which smaller boats were used on small water bodies. This is well known in a Swiss setting thanks to the very illustrative Swiss chronicles of 1450-1530, but similar boat designs must have been used all across Europe where sufficiently large lakes connected warring settlements. This illustration aptly shows shows the 15th century with protective roofs and gun-ports cut through the hull; the crew move them with the help of oars and fire arquebuses and crossbows from within. The illusion of a small battleship is completed by the flags and insignia painted on the sides.

1460-1470 Switzerland, Zurich Ms A 120 - Tschachtlan-Berner Chronik

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Niccolo di Segna - Pinnacle with Angel. 1335

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Illustration by Johann Bämler to Book 8 (On Wondrous People), 1475, in The Book of Nature by Konrad von Megenberg, Augsburg.

Courtesy Alain Truong

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A siren and a centaur, about 1270, from bestiary, Franco-Flemish, tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment

Courtesy Alain Truong

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constellations (equuleus, pegasus, aquila, and gallina/cygnus)

miniatures from the astronomical-astrological codex for king wenceslaus iv. of bohemia, prague, shortly after 1400

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 826, fol. 41v, 41r, and 38r

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The Moon - Astrological and Medical miscellany (Codex Fanning) - Nuremberg - c.1459-1471

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Gold ring brooch with garnets and sapphires, England or French, circa 1250-1300

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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blinding light attack

full-page illustration from a manuscript of konrad kyeser's bellifortis, alsace, c. 1460

source: Frankfurt a.M, UB, Ms. germ. qu. 15, fol. 50r

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St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, secretly gives dowries to three poor girls. Miniature executed by a French artist known as the "Master of Jean Rolin II," for folio 84r of the Book of Hours commissioned by a court official named Simon de Varie and completed in 1455. Now in the KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.