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Proportion der Menschen und Rosse extrahirt aus Heinrich Lautensacks Circkels und Richtschheyts, auch der Perspektiva und Propotion der Menschen, kurze, doch gründliche Unterweisung - Staatsbibliothek Bamberg JH.Msc.Art.6. Lautensack, Heinrich (Kunsthandwerker), 1727
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Anathomia ossium corporis humani, the oldest surviving anatomical rendering of the human skeleton.
Apparently this caused an uproar in the science world after nearly eight centuries of repression by religious groups that maintained hegemony throughout the dark ages.
Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1497.
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These images come from the fabled manuscript, ‘Liber Floridus’ (Book of Flowers), a Medieval encyclopædia produced some 900 years ago by Lambert, Canon of St Omer, in the NE France/Flanders/Belgium region
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Detail from a Dutch print satirizing Oliver Cromwell’s dissolution of the Long Parliament (1653).
P.S. This is an Oule. lol
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Fall of the Angels
Illustration of Lucifer, taken from a French manuscript of the fifteenth century in which a series of pictures illustrate ‘last things’ and Christ’s second coming. A contemporary text in English ‘The Pricke of Conscience’ also deals with the same theme, as do images in the Holkham Bible picture book, produced in East Anglia a century earlier. The devil in the centre of the picture and those round the sides combine elements of the human form with those of pigs, cats, angels, dragons and carry hooks and instruments of torture, they are shown in different colours, with snarling faces and huge fangs, and are intended to instill terror and fear of hell and damnation into the beholders
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The Juxtaposition of Brutality and Piety: this is, perhaps, not my most successful moment as a PR representative for the Middle Ages.
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Map of Constantinople, 1422 by Christoforo Buondelmonte.
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Flora
Edward Burne Jones & William Morris
1885
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Pages from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection of Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
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Pages of Koran - different versions from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich
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Mirror of History
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Flemish, Ghent, about 1475
Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment bound between wood boards covered with brown moroccoThe Speculum maius is considered the masterwork of Vincent de Beauvais, a thirteenth-century monk. With almost ten thousand chapters and over three million words, this ambitious text attempts to give a universal summary of the world in three parts: nature, history, and the arts and sciences. The section concerning history, called the Mirror of History, for example, endeavors to provide a comprehensive history of the world from Creation until 1254.
Although Beauvais tried to compile a carefully organized and factually accurate summary of human knowledge, his history of mankind actually blends together biblical, mythical, and historical events. Nonetheless, the Speculum maius was a stunning achievement, and the text’s popularity and influence in the Middle Ages is evident in its survival in a number of luxurious illuminated manuscripts. The Miroir historial ( Mirror of History )is Jean de Vignay’s French translation of the 1300s from the original Latin.
The Getty’s copy of the Miroir historial dates to the 1400s and contains 132 miniaturesby a number of different Flemish artists, but does not cover the entire period of history from Creation to 1254. Instead, the two-volume set ends with the death of the Virgin and an anthology of miracles she performed after her death.The J. Paul Getty Museum
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“Henbane & Hart’s Tongue” from The Tudor Pattern Book
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