Mar 26, 2015 - Historia Plantarum (On plants) is a natural science encyclopedia, in which animals, plants, and minerals are illustrated and described for their medicinal properties, in keeping with the medieval tradition of the tacuina medievali (medieval health handbooks), and from which the codex derives its most common name, Tacuinum sanitatis. The work was first compiled as Taqwim al-Sihhah (The maintenance of health) by the 11th-century Baghdad physician Ibn Buṭlān, and chief among his Greek sources was Dioscorides, a physician in the first century. The court in Sicily commissioned a Latin translation in the mid-13th century. The work is divided into sections ordered alphabetically, each of which is decorated with precious architectural motifs that intersect like branches stippled with gold. The text is illustrated with splendid miniatures that were executed in the Northern Italian Lombard style predominantly used by Giovannino and Salomone de’ Grassi. The illustrations show animals, plants, minerals, and utensils, painted in watercolors or simply drawn, located at the top of the manuscript pages. The first entry of each alphabetic section is adorned with a decorative first letter that usually includes in its center figures of learned men or physicians. These are represented in half-length figures, framed with ornamental friezes and ...
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Medieval artwork contains jewels, gemstones, and colored glass substitutes. Learn about the symbolism behind these bright, colorful objects.
Gaming piece, carved walrus ivory, probably England (St Albans?), ca. 1130
Illustration about Fun dragon, 3d generated picture. Illustration of medieval, artwork, cute - 17153402
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Soldat mit Armbrust, BNF Français 95 Histoire du Saint Graal / Histoire de Merlin, fol. 74r-m, 1280-1290, Nordfrankreich.
Set in a coal-mining community in northern England, Ken Loach’s film Kes (1969) portrays the solace a young boy finds when nurturing a kestrel. The film is based on A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), a novel by Barry Hines currently on display in the British Library’s free exhibition Animal...
Konrad : Schachzabelbuch Elsass, 1414 Cgm 1111 Folio 105
View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library MS. Douce 62 Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Miniature object
ALBERTINA en ligne - recherche dans la base de données
Medieval cat tiles: cats tending birds, monastic cats, cats protecting a citadel from mice. Medieval and mythic themes were popular with Morris and Victorians.
Medieval artists certainly had a fixation...
Do you know your dragons? Tiles based on dragons and dragon variants: drakes, wyverns, wyrms, voivres, and basilisks from medieval manuscripts: The Liber Floridus, Harley bestiary, and others.
Artist/maker unknown, Spanish
Medieval art is really confusing and quite random.
Bible, Northeastern France, during last quarter of the 13th century
