#OpChangeTheWorld2 🌎 This book without author, written in an unknown language and adorned with strange… by anarcho-pirate

“Jessie Bayes (b. 1876 Hampstead, London - d. 1970) was a British Arts & Crafts artist who specialized in miniature paintings, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, iconography and more.”

“Jessie Bayes (b. 1876 Hampstead, London - d. 1970) was a British Arts & Crafts artist who specialized in miniature paintings, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, iconography and more.”

A curator discovers dogs—lots of them—in Simon Bening’s manuscripts.

For more details on calendar pages or the Golf Book, please see the post for January 2013. The necessary work of preparing for winter continues on this full-page miniature for December. In the foreground, a man and a woman are slaughtering one of the pigs that was fattened in November,...

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Adventures in Medieval Tools, Jewelry, Clocks, and Armor

Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval art is really confusing and quite random.

Illuminated manuscripts were not just for monks.

The Voynich Manuscript is a document that is notable for its strange text, that to date hasn't been decyphered. Theories range from a secret language or code...

This bizarre medieval manuscript has never been deciphered

Scribes in the 16th century clearly had too much fun with these *ahem* questionable illustrations…

The Sacramentary of Drogo, one of the gospel illustrated manuscripts from the Carolingian Revival. wikipedia Western Europe came crawling out of the "Dark Ages" with the arrival of Frankish kings, whom, in collaboration with the papacy in Rome,...

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We have always referred to this manuscript (St Andrews ms32(o)) as the ‘book of wonders’ and indeed wondered what it was all about as it is lavishly and confusingly illustrated, packed with mysteri…

These illuminated medieval manuscripts give us a look into the minds of the monks who created them, and how they viewed sex, demons and hell fire…Get your trip on and peep some medieval porn and demon weirdness! via Flashbak

Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(olor), of an artist mixing colours, from James le Palmer's Omne Bonum, England (London), c. 1360 - c. 1375, Royal 6 E. vi, f. 396 It has been very interesting - and extremely gratifying - to hear about the new discoveries and exciting research recently...

The fleur de lis is an ancient stylized representation of a flower—most likely Iris pseudacorus a golden-yellow species of Iris, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. The motif can …

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The Fitzwilliam Museum has brought together some dazzling, intricate manuscripts, whose colours foreshadow modern art … in the middle ages

The British Library holds the world’s most important collections of books made or owned in England between the eclipse of Roman Britain and the Norman Conquest of 1066. These books and documents contain crucial evidence for the development of society, economy, literature, government, art and religion during the transformative period...

“XIV. yüzyıla ait Arapça bir el yazmasında "Şeytan" tasviri.”

Matteo de Milano; Master of the Graduals-Choirbook for Monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza [MS pf Med. 97] 1 of 26 Initials containing Portraits of the Monks at San Sisto Italy (1495) Boston Public Library

British Library, Stowe MS 955, f. 13r ('Two women attempting to catch flying hearts'). 'Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour), a collection of love poems and...