Medieval Life..

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This individual illuminated manuscript initial (spliced together from screencaps) exists as a fragment and was probably produced in Italy...

This is a finely illuminated and iconographically rich Book of Hours, made in England at the end of the thirteenth century. The manuscript is incomplete and misbound. Its main artist can also be found at work in a Bible, Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Auct. D.3.2, and a Psalter, Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge Ms. O.4.16. The manuscript contains a number of unusual texts including the Hours of Jesus Crucified, and the Office of St. Catherine. The patron of the manuscript is not clear: a…

Detail from The Luttrell Psalter, British Library Add MS 42130 (medieval manuscript,1325-1340), f164v

from "Rothschild Canticles", Flanders, 14th century - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 156v, 137v, 148, 130

Sacramentary; Unknown; Beauvais (probably), France; first quarter of 11th century; Tempera colors, gold, silver, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with greenish-brown morocco; Leaf: 23.2 × 17.9 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.); Ms. Ludwig V 1 (83.MF.76); The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig V 1; Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States

Bishop Cat Fables, Germany 15th century (LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 1, fol. 48r)

Adoration of the Magi (detail), from the Ruskin Hours, French, about 1300. J. Paul Getty Museum

Musician with parti-colored dagged tunic entertains medieval ladies. 13th century (ca.1250) France, Paris, The Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible, Pierpoint Morgan Library

Bible de Maciejowski detail FOLIO 32R

Snail castle with guard dog @BLMedieval Add MS 36684, f 146r

By Jenneka Janzen While a bit denser than Maurice Sendak’s modern bed-time story, medieval bestiaries were, and still are, crowd-pleasers. A bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about a w…

CAPA AGUADERA: Prenda del siglo XVI y XVII de viajeros para protegerse de la lluvia y del frío. Era de fieltro y se confeccionaba con dos piezas semicirculares independientes, una más pequeña que la otra. La pequeña formaba un faldón. Dicho faldón podía no llevarse. Iba con una capilla para cubrir la cabeza y con dos pequeñas piezas que tapaba la boca. Se cerraba con corchetes y podía llevar guarniciones. 1577. Diversarum gentium armadura equestris, A. de Bruyn Colonia (imagen obtenida aquí)…

Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1418