Medieval manuscript

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Book of Hours, France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329

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Manuscript: Morgan M.638 Maciejowski Bible; Dating 1244-1254; Paris, France. Knights in chain mail. // #medieval #chainmail #knights

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Lancelot du Lac, Northeastern France, perhaps in Saint-Quentin or Laon, between 1310 and 1315

This Book of Hours was made ca. 1420-1440 for use of Rome in northeastern France or Paris, as suggested by the contents in the calendar and the inclusion of a suffrage to St. Avia. Although the identity of the initial patron is unknown, his heraldry was added thirty-five times throughout the book. The manuscript was owned within the first decades of its creation by Thomas Malet of Berlettes and Jeanne of Lannoy, whose heraldry was added early into the manuscript as well. This was likely in…

Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1490

Adams und Eva, temptation and fall Baum des Lebens und Baum des Todes, Vollbild zu Beginn der Messe des Fronleichnamsfestes | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München Clm15710, fol-60v Salzburger Missale, Bd. 3: begonnen 1478 von Ulrich Schreier in Salzburg, vollendet von Furtmeyr in Regensburg 1489

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Lancelot du Lac, Northeastern France, perhaps in Saint-Quentin or Laon, between 1310 and 1315

Hare with harp from "The Maastricht Hours’," Liège 14th century, Bodleian Library, Stowe 17, fol. 92v