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«et quant la tigre voit sa ymage dedens le miroir aparoir et aperçoit la figure et la samblance de son cors, ele quide que ce soit ses faons, si torne et retorne, mais c’est nient»
Brunetto Latini, Tresor
© Bibliothèque Municipale de Douai, MS 711, Folio 2r
A mermaid with a mirror and comb and a traveller being bitten by a dog, MS 42130, f. 70v, courtesy of The British Library
but you don’t really care for music, do you?
King David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant
‘Maciejowski Bible’, Paris ca. 1240
NY, Morgan, MS M.638, fol. 39v
egg-horse
L'estoire de Merlin, France ca. 1316
BL, Add 10292, fol. 213r
Rabbit kebab
Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht (’The Maastricht Hours’), first quarter of the 14th century.
British Library, Stowe MS 17, f. 48v.
The first surviving image of Joan of Arc, sketched by the secretary of the Parliament of Paris, Clément de Fauquembergue, on May 10, 1429, after Paris received word of Joan’s victory at Orleans. He had never seen her in person.
Mythological beasts.
Mounted elephant trampling a knight
Medieval knight at losing end of battle, notice woman in tower throwing rocks.
In this Book of Hours from the late 13th Century, a scribal error was made; a figure in the margins pulls up the missing text and points to its correct location.
neorxnawange:
mediumaevum:
An Art student hand illuminates and binds Tolkien’s “Silmarillion”!!!
This is amazing but it makes me feel COMPLETELY INADEQUATE about my project. ._.
well crap. this is really cool.
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As a calligrapher my self (I even go so far as to make my own ink)
DAMN!
The skill and time needed for this kind of work is incredible. People don't even know anymore because printed books killed this kind of art. Once upon a time ALL books were as beautiful to look at as they were to read.
Now books are so undervalued they aren't even on paper anymore.... fucking tards don't even know the YEARS is takes to do something like this. It takes me 6 hours to write just one single half page.
A full book the size of Silmarillion would take a TEAM of calligraphers MONTHS to write and illuminate; one person, years.
More people need to do this. We cannot let books die. We have to make them beautiful again.
