Showing posts with label 1450s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1450s. Show all posts

Monday, 6 November 2017

Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans (BNF Latin 1156B)

The Visitation (Luke 1: 39-56), f. 58r.

Colloquial name(s): Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans
Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 1156B

Date: between 1426 and 1438 (source), additional marginal decoration c. 1450 (source)
Origin: France (source)



Friday, 14 April 2017

Hours of Philip the Bold (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 & Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37)

Presentation in the Temple, 
Fitzwilliam Museum MS 3-1964, f. 104r.

Colloquial name(s): Hours of Philip the Bold
Official name(s): Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 and Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37

Date: 1376-79, 1390, c. 1445-50 and 1451 (source)
Origin: Paris, France then Bruges, Flanders then Brabant, Brussels (source)

Online fascimile available via: select folios available via the Fitzwilliam Museum's Illuminated: Manuscripts in the Making, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37 not currently online

Friday, 4 November 2016

Tacuinum sanitatis (Bibliothèque municipale, Rouen, Ms. 3054)

Lettuce, f. unknown.

Colloquial name(s): Tacuinum sanitatis, by Ibn Butlân
Official name(s): Bibliothèque municipale, Rouen, Ms. 3054 [formerly Leber 1088]

Date: 1450s (source)
Origin: unknown

Online facsimile available via: Wikimedia commons - only a few folios are currently available online

Monday, 31 October 2016

Medical encyclopaedia (ÖNB, Cod. 5264 Han)

Reaping. f. 114r.

Colloquial name(s): none
Official name(s): Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 5264 Han [formerly Med. 2]

Date: c. 1470 (source), third quarter of the 15th C (source)
Origin: Lodi region, Italy, by Giovanni Cadamosto of Lodi's workshop (source)

Online facsimile available via: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Monday, 24 October 2016

Tacuinum sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333)

Wool clothing (vestits lanea), f. 103r.

Colloquial name(s): Tacuinum sanitatis, by Ibn Butlân
Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 9333

Date: 1445-51 (source and source)
Origin: Rhineland, Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library