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*[http://dbarchowsky.synology.me/photo/?t=Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f436f6465782046616c6b656e737465696e656e736973#Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f436f6465782046616c6b656e737465696e656e736973 Codex Falkensteinensis picture reference] (Photo Station)
* [http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/codexfalkensteinensisen Codex Falkensteinensis source] (Munich Digital Library)
* [http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/codexfalkensteinensisen Codex Falkensteinensis source] (Munich Digital Library)


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* {picture reference} (Photo Station)
* [http://dbarchowsky.synology.me/photo/?t=Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f4c61204c69767265206465206c6120436861737365202d20476173746f6e2050686f6562757320283134303729#Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f4c61204c69767265206465206c6120436861737365202d20476173746f6e2050686f6562757320283134303729 La Livre de la Chasse picture reference] (Photo Station)
* [http://www.themorgan.org/collection/livre-de-la-chasse/1 source] (Morgan Library)
* [http://www.themorgan.org/collection/livre-de-la-chasse/1 source] (Morgan Library)
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== Incunabula ==
== Incunabula ==
=== Nuremberg Chronicle <small>Inc.0.A.7.2[888], 1493, Germany</small> ===
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* [http://dbarchowsky.quickconnect.to/photo/?t=Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f4e7572656d62657267204368726f6e69636c65#Albums/album_70696374757265207265666572656e6365/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f617274/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e7573637269707473/album_70696374757265207265666572656e63652f6172742f6d6564696576616c206d616e75736372697074732f4e7572656d62657267204368726f6e69636c65 Nuremberg Chronicle picture refernece] (Photo Station)
* [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-00000-A-00007-00002-00888/1 Nuremberg Chronicle source] (University of Cambridge)
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=== Heidelberger Totentanz <small>GW M47257, 1488, Germany</small> ===
=== Heidelberger Totentanz <small>GW M47257, 1488, Germany</small> ===

Revision as of 16:58, 26 May 2015

Overview

Sources for visual reference for medieval times and for the visual style of medieval manuscripts.

Early Manuscripts

Eadwine Psalter — MS M.521, c. 1155-60, Canterbury, England

MS M.521v
  • Highly stylized.
  • Stories from the Gospels.
  • Some livestock, pigs, architecture.

Links

Winchester Bible — MS M.619, c. 1160-80, Winchester, England

  • Highly rendered.
  • Stylized trees
  • David & Goliath
  • Knights, horses w/saddles & bridles
  • Clouds

Links

Morgan Bible — MS M.638, 1240's, Paris, France

  • aka The Crusader Bible
  • Highly rendered
  • Scenes from Genesis
  • Strange stylized trees
  • Harvesting
  • Creation
  • Adam and Eve
  • Animals (Noah's ark)

Links

Chronicle of John of Worcester — MS. 157, c. 1140, England

  • highly stylized
  • 2 pages
  • laborers, kings, clergy
  • boats, water
  • King Henry I's dream
  • Crucifixion of Christ

Links

Liber Floridus &mdash {id}, {date}, {place of origin}

  • Highly stylized
  • Topics covering medicine and science
  • Astrology
  • Maps
  • Plants

Links

  • {picture reference} (Photo Station)

Codex Falkensteinensis — BayHStA KL Weyarn1, 1166, Germany

  • Highly stylized figures
  • Mostly writing, marginalia

Links

La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei — MS Ee.3.59, c.1230-1240, England

  • Highly stylized figures
  • Kings and British history

Links

Later Medieval manuscripts

Codex Manesse — Cod. Pal. germ. 848, 1300-1340, Zurich

  • Between stylized and rendered
  • Secular illustrations of poets arranged by rank: kings, dukes, counts, down to commoners
  • Curly hair, head gear: fillets, barbettes, crowns, and some fancy hats
  • Animals, birds, horses
  • Hunting: hounds, stags, boars, bears
  • Boats
  • Not a whole lot of trees or plants, but there are repeated decorative scrolling floral motifs

Links

Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel — Cod. Pal. germ. 164, c. 1295-1371, Germany

  • Highly stylized/naive
  • Saxon law, (literaly "Saxon Mirror", or roughly "Survey of Saxon Law")
  • Secular themes
  • Commoners, livestock, crops, labor

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Dresden Sachsenspiegel — Mscr. Dresden M.32, 1295-1371, Germany

  • Quality is a little more murky than the Heidelberg manuscript.
  • More refined drawings.

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Early Renaissance codices & manuscripts

Épître d'Othéa — Cod. Bodmer 49, 1460, Bourgogne/Burgundy, France

  • Highly rendered
  • aka The Book of Hector, The Book of Knighthood
  • Costumes
  • Nobility, royalty, knights fighting in suits of armor
  • Romantic couples
  • Monsters, demons, gates of hell
  • Animals, birds, some hunting, wild boars, stags
  • Landscapes, architecture, interiors and exteriors, castles, walled cities

Links

La Livre De La Chasse MS M. 1044, c. 1407, France

  • Highly rendered
  • Gaston Phoebus
  • Hunting scenes and feasts
  • Wild animals and hounds
  • Nobility with servants

Links

Incunabula

Heidelberger Totentanz GW M47257, 1488, Germany

  • Woodcuts (incunabulum)
  • Danse Macabre
  • Skeletons interacting with living people
  • All social classes represented
  • Early Renaissance; later than the period of interest

Links

  • TK: Link:picture reference (Photo Station)
  • source Heidelberg University library
  • info & source BibliOdyssey

Paradin, Claude: Devises Heroïques — SM815, 1551, Lyons, France

Earliest example of a collection of the devices worn by French aristocracy, a practice started in the late 15th Century.

  • Woodcuts
  • Alchemical, mystical, surreal vibe
  • Dates later than medieval times

Links