Tag: illuminated manuscript
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The Aberdeen Bestiary
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in GeneralThe Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24) is considered to be one of the best examples of its type due to its lavish and costly illuminations. The manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200, is of added interest since it contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and…
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Tres riches heures – Labor of the month
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in IspirazioneScene representing October, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures (known as the “king of illuminated manuscripts”). Note the rather bored looking seed-sower and scarecrow with bow and arrow. The scene is taking place at what would now be the centre of Paris (a block or two south of l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts).