Beauty in the apertures of pain

Details from illuminated manuscripts. Getty Museum, 2018

Bonet, Honoré, fl. 1378-1398. L'arbre des batailles : manuscript, [ca. 1400-1450].

MS Typ 61

Houghton Library, Harvard University,

u ever wish u could be a medieval monk and just illuminate a manuscript….like i feel like all of my worldly troubles would be solved if i could copy the aeneid by hand and then draw a knight fighting a snail in the margins

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Passional of Abbess Kunigunde

14th century, miniature, National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague

Master of Gerona (Italian, active about 1300) Initial A: Christ in Majesty, late 13th century, Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment Leaf: 58.3 × 40.2 cm (22 15/16 × 15 13/16 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Gospels, MS 58, Trinity College Dublin

A collection of Black Books of Hours

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 22, p. 15 by Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland http://flic.kr/p/c7AHCL

Gospels, MS 58, Trinity College Dublin

Detail of "Sciopod", “‘The Breviary of Renaud de Bar’ or ‘The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar’”, Yates Thompson 8, f. 250v by “Master of the Pontifical of Renaud de Bar”, Metz, France c. 1302-1303 via The British Library, Public Domain

Detail of “Initials”, “‘The Breviary of Renaud de Bar’ or ‘The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar’”, Yates Thompson 8, f. 171 by “Master of the Pontifical of Renaud de Bar”, Metz, France c. 1302-1303 via The British Library, Public Domain

Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (Sforza Black Hours), attributed to Master of Anthony of Burgundy, Belgium ca. 1466-1476 via Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) on Wikimedia Commons. Image I: Public Domain (United States), Image II: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

“The Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza is an illuminated book of hours which used to be the property of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Its name derives from its unusual black borders, also found in the New York Black Hours. It follows the Roman liturgy and was produced in Bruges around 1466–76. It measures 25 by 18 centimetres (9.8 by 7.1 in), has 154 folios and includes 14 main miniatures as well as figurative and ornamental initials and borders with medallions. The illuminations of the book are entirely attributed to the anonymous Master of Anthony of Burgundy.” - Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Wikipedia

Sacramentarium (Sacramentary of Echternach), f. 3r, by unknown creator, Echernach, Luxembourg c. 895-898 via Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain (France)

‘An Archangel Locks the Hellmouth’. A page from THE WINCHESTER PSALTER. English 12th-century illuminated manuscript. Probably made for use in Winchester, most agree the likely patron was Prince Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester from 1129 until his death in 1171