Showing posts with label Flanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flanders. Show all posts

Friday, 16 June 2017

Rothschild Canticles (Yale University Library, Beinecke MS 404)

Christ and a woman, f. 21r.

Colloquial name(s): Rothschild Canticles
Official name(s): Yale University, Beinecke MS 404

Date: turn of the 14th C (source)
Origin: Flanders or the Rhineland (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

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Psalter (J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. 14)

Man warming himself by a fire, surrounded by provisions, f. 3r.

Colloquial name(s): Psalter
Official name(s): J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. 14, also known as object no. 85.MK.239

Date: mid-1200s (source)
Origin: Bruges (?), Belgium (source)

Online facsimile available via: J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Database

Thursday, 29 October 2015

The Romance of Alexander (MS. Bodl. 264)

Cassamus and his chess-players, f. 128v.

Colloquial name(s): The Romance of Alexander, The Roman d'Alexandre
Official name(s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. 264

Date: 1338-1344 (source) with two sections added c. 1400 (source)
Origin: Tournai, Flanders (source); Flanders with two sections added later in England (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA (high-quality, zoomable facsimiles of the majority of the illustrations) and  The Bodleian Library (much poorer quality, non-zoomable facsimile of the complete manuscript)