Medieval art illustration

Rabbit blowing a horn. Among the marginal creatures populating medieval manuscripts musical animals are fairly common.

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Medieval Dragon Floral is an illumination taken from an antique medieval text. It shows a brilliantly colored dragon on a shield with floral flourishes around it. - Medieval Dragon Floral

Taken from the fabulous website by Karen Larsdatter: http://www.larsdatter.com/gloves.htm: MITTENS A leather glove, 15th century, found in London; additional views 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; also here Two leather mittens (both for the left hand) were found in a chest on the Mary Rose (1545); a line drawing of one of them can be found on page 14 of the 2005 Annual Report of the Mary Rose Museum An infant's knit mitten, 16th century (also here) Embroidered mittens, c. 1600; use V&A's Access to…

New Atheist blogger Bob Seidensticker is scornful of a medieval map because of its monsters, but the real problem is his ignorance of history.

The Songbook of Zeghere van Male contains local and international 500 year old songs and motets. Made in 1542, the 1200-page long book is rich in illuminations, depicting ornamental and historiated initials and interlinear drawings not necessarily related to its content. Also known by its call number MS 125-128 in Cambrai’s Mediathèque Municipale, the late … Continue reading "Weird And Wonderful Illustrated Letters From A 16th Century Songbook"

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According to superstition, if you rub the blood of a bat on your face you’ll be able to see at night. But if you use this bat, you’ll also get more hand-some. Never too cool for a good …