Pergament, 15,9 × 13,5 cm, Staatliche Bibliothek, BambergGospel Books
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Showing posts with label manuscripts. Show all posts
Embroidered bookbinding, Annunciation, 13th century
Tags: embroidery, bookbinding, unknown, 1200, annunciation, angel, archangel, gabriel, messenger, mary, bird
Aberdeen Bestiary, Folio 8r, Tiger, 12th century
The horseman has stolen a cub and has been pursued by the tiger. The thief can stop the tiger by a trick: he throws down a glass sphere and the tiger, seeing its own reflection, stops to nurse the sphere like a cub. She ends by losing both her revenge and her child. - Aberdeen Bestiary, Aberdeen University
Bamberg Apocalypse, Folio 1r, John receives his revelation, 1000-1020
To get an idea...
The Bamberg Apocalypse is an 11th century richly illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelations and a Gospel Lectionary. It was created in the scriptorium at Reichenau between 1000 and 1020. (Wikipedia)
Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram, Adoration of the Lamb, 9t century
Pergament. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
See Wikipedia (German)
The honor that belongs to the one that has mastered himself, sacrificed himself...
Apocalypse of St. Sever, Rain of fire and blood, folio137v, c1050
A reign of blood and fire... violence and slaughter
The Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878) is a French Romanesque illuminated Apocalypse manuscript from the 11th Century. It was made at the Abbey of St. Sever in about 1050. It contains the commentary of Beatus of Liébana on the Book of Revelations.
Biblia Pauperum, Great Famine, c1315-1317
The country grew hungry...
From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine of 1315–1317. Death "(Mors") sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine ("Fames") points to her hungry mouth. (Wikimedia Commons)
MASTER of the Hitda Evangely Storm of the Sea of Galilee c.1020
Tags: 1000, boat, evangely, hitda, illumination, master, miracle, relaxed, sleeping, storm
MASTER of the Hitda Evangely Healing Peter's Mother-in-law c.1020
The Hitda Codex, an eleventh-century codex containing an evangeliary, a selection of passages from the Gospels, that was commissioned by Hitda, abbess of Meschede about 1020, is conserved in the Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt, Germany. Its illuminations are highlights of the Cologne school in the later phases of the Ottonian Renaissance. - Wikipedia
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