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Finely detailed manuscripts featuring religious scenes and figures, enriched with gold leaf and vibrant colors, representing the craftsmanship of the medieval period.

The Dauphin Charles reenters Paris with 2, 000 men-at-arms, and addresses the crowd at Les Halles. The crowd favours the Dauphin; 1358. (14th C. ). Biblioteque Nationale, Paris. From the Grandes Chroniques de France. 1375-1380 manuscript
The Dauphin Charles reenters Paris with 2, 000 men-at-arms, and addresses the crowd at Les Halles. The crowd favours the Dauphin; 1358. (14th C. ). Biblioteque Nationale, Paris. From the Grandes Chroniques de France. 1375-1380 manuscript
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Borell II (927-992). Count of Barcelona. Genealogy of the Crown of Aragon. Parchament. 14th-15th century. Catalonia. Spain.
1746-197
Norse dragon-prowed ship, 10th Century, Anglo-Saxon manuscript
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April Calendar Page; Milking and Butter Making; Taurus. Workshop of the Master of James IV of Scotland (Flemish, before 1465 - about 1541)
4435-6020
Fouquet, Jean (1420-1481). Two knights fighting. Illustration from 'The Great Chronicles of France' (XIV). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.
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SEPTEMBER The wine harvest takes place  close to the Chateau de Saumur        Date: 1409 - 1487
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Colored woodcut with handwritten text depicting the earth and mountains expanding, humans losing language, and animals becoming tame.
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Expulsion from paradise by Maitre Francois, watercolour on parchment, 1450-1475, active 1460-1480, USA, New York, New York Public Library
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London and the Thames (15th c.). Gothic art. Miniature Painting.
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LIBRO DE LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE CRISTOBAL COLON O CODICE DE VERAGUA- ESCUDO DE ARMAS DEL ALMIRANTE PINTADO SOBRE PIEL EN AL AÑO 1498. Location: Archivo General de Indias. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.
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CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº245-F67V-HOMBRE BUENO DE LEON ES HECHO PRESO-S XIII-MINIATURA GOTICA. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.
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Colored woodcut by Anton Koberger, created between 1479 and 1483, depicting Cain killing his brother Abel, showing figures in a detailed landscape with dramatic composition.
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The lion, the wolf, and the fox end; The woman and the drunkard.. 1480. Aesop. Manuscripts, Illuminations, Miniatures (illuminations). Spencer Collection
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The Baker Artist Unknown (Italian) Palazzo Della Ragione, Padua
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Christ Blessing Three Young Men, initial M from a Gradual. Maestro Daddesco; Italian (Florence), active about 1310-1350. Date: 1320-1330. Dimensions: 138 x 131 mm. Opaque watercolor, with shell gold and gold leaf, on parchment. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Odontological operation in the Middle Age. Manuscript 13th Century. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Mark's Library).
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King David praying. Miniature, 16th century. From Les Heures de la Tour et Taxis. Conde Museum. Chateau of Chantilly. France.
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Madonna of the Burning Bush; Georges Trubert (French, active Provence, France 1469 - 1508); Provence, France; about 1480-1490; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 11.4 × 8.6 cm (4 1,2 × 3 3,8 in.)
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MISAL RICO-CURACION DEL PARALITICO QUE LO METEN POR EL TECHO-MILAGRO DE JESUS. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Polo, Marco (1254-1324). Venetian traveller. 'Book of Wonders', French handwriting edition (14th c.). Battle betweem Mongolians and Minians. Description of the World. s.XIV. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.
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LIBRO DE LOS CABALLEROS DE LA ORDEN DE SANTIAGO - 1361 - FOLIO 28 V - FERNANDEZ DE BRIUEGA - MARTINE. Location: ARCHIVO MUNICIPAL. BURGOS. SPAIN. FERRANDES BRIUEGA JOHAN. FERNANDEZ BRIUEGA JUAN. MARTINEZ GARCIA. YVANEZ GRANON FFERRANT. IBAÑEZ GRANON FERRANT. PERES SANCTO DOMINGO SANCHO. PEREZ SANTO DOMINGO SANCHO.
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Fresco of Charles V of France receiving an illuminated Bible from Jean de Vaudetar. Painted by Jean Bandol. Dated 14th Century
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MTI1 - VIÑETA DE LA CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº35 - F53R - MERCADERES EMBARCANDO BALAS DE LANA - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. COLIASTANUS.
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Holy Kinship. Dated: 1490/1500. Dimensions: image: 26.5 x 38.9 cm (10 7/16 x 15 5/16 in.) sheet: 26.7 x 39.1 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.) overall (exterior frame dimensions): 44.8 x 60 cm (17 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.). Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in green, yellow, red lake, and light brown. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.
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Scene in a tailor's, miniature by Giovannino de Grassi from Tacuinum Sanitatis (The Medieval Health Handbook), Italy 14th Century.
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There came a knight upon a  steed of brass        Date: First published: circa 1387
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Manuscript Illumination with Salvator Mundi in an Initial P, from a Choir Book early 16th century Italian. Manuscript Illumination with Salvator Mundi in an Initial P, from a Choir Book 468570
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Flight into Egypt. I. (drzeworytnik ludowy ; fl. ca 1810), graphic artist, Łazarski, Zygmunt (1885-1943), publisher
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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 260v, Lamentation, c. 1500. Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519), and Associates. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.).
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Edward The Confessor, Anglo-Saxon king of England, 1070s. Artist: Unknown
1095-327
Pillars From "Collection of Musical Treatises" Manuscripts Newberry Library, Chicago
1890-10499
Crowds point to Halley´s Comet, February 1066, Bayeux Tapestry, Normandy, France, Europe
1746-3999
Bayeux Tapestry 1067.  William of Normandy (William I of England) at an open-air feast with his nobles and his half-brother Bishop Odo of Bayeux who is saying grace. Textile Linen Food Drink Cooking Spit
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Manesse Codex (1305-40) German manuscript. Prince Henry of Breslau victor of tournament receives garland. Museum: UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Heidelberg, DEUTSCHLAND.
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Colored woodcut after 1450, depicting the wheel of fortune and death, emphasizing figures, motion, and allegorical symbols.
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October Limbourg Brothers Book of Hours. 1409. Tilling and Sowing. FRANCE.
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Woman and demons by Anonymous artist, Watercolour on parchment, 1425, British Library
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France: The Building of the Tower of Babel, folio 17v, The Bedford Hours, Paris, c. 1420
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Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft; Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died about 1479, active about 1451 - 1479); Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; about 1469; Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 10.8 × 7.9 cm (4 1,4 × 3 1,8 in.)
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MISAL ROMANO-MAN 52-S XIII-SIGNO DEL ZODIACO-LEO-. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Illustration of trepanation. Miniature. 14th century. Treatise on anatomy by Mondino de Liuzzi (1270-1326). Italian anatomist nad profesor of Bologna.
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A 1494 colored woodcut by Thomas Ochsenbrunner depicting Emperor Hadrian (Adrianus) of Rome in traditional Roman imperial attire.
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RABANUS, Maurus (c. 780 - 856). De universo or De rerum naturis. 842 - 847. The Tempest. Edition of the 11th century from the original Carolingian manuscript. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. LAZIO. FROSINONE. Cassino. Archive of Monte Cassino's Abbey.
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The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Together with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.
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Anglo-Saxon labourer and farmers, 8th century. Laborer (or slave) in simple tunica without a belt (Harley Psalter MS 603), a farmer (or free man) in tunica and Phrygian hat (Hexateuch, Cotton MS Claudius B iv) and a high-rank farmer in knee-length tunica and leggings (Bodleian MS Junius xi). Handcoloured engraving by Joseph Strutt from his Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, Henry Bohn, London, 1842.
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Otto IV of Brandenburg playing chess. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. GERMANY. BADEN-WRTTEMBERG. Heidelberg. Heidelberg University Library.
1746-4657
John (1167-1216) Plantagenet king of England from 1199, out hunting. Chromolithograph after a medieval manuscript.
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Saxon king in his martial habit with his armour bearer. King in battle wearing a crown, knee-length chain-mail tunic or lorica, a suit of armour reserved for royalty in the 8th century. He carries a yellow shield and brandishes a sword above his head. Identified as Pepin II, the Younger, King of Aquitaine, 823c.864. His equerry wears a yellow Phrygian cap and scarlet tunica, and carries a shield rimmed with gold. From Old English Hexateuch, Cotton MS Claudius B iv., f.24v. Handcoloured engraving by Joseph Strutt from his Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, Henry Bohn, London, 1842.
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Richard II meets the rebels on  the Thames     Date: 1381
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COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS, EL CORDERO VENCE A LA BESTIA, AL DRAGON Y AL FALSO PROFETA. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Colored copper engraving, 15th century, depicting a man experiencing pain, emphasizing figure, posture, and expressive details.
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Anonymous colored pen drawing shows a king dictating letters, dated between 1420 and 1430.
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Jonás devorado por una ballena, miniatura de la 'Biblia Sacra', Tinta sobre pergamino, 1268. Museum: Archivo Episcopal de Vic.
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Man, woman and child sitting in a landscape. Draughtsman: Richard Roland Holst. Dating: 1878 - 1938. Measurements: h 257 mm × w 526 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Historical illustration from the 19th Century, representation based on the novel Il Filocolo, 1336 - 1339, Filocolo being smuggled hidden among flowers into a tower, by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 - 1375, an Italian writer, a Democrat, poet and humanist
457-2493
Dittamondo,Sagittario Fazio degli Uberti Manuscripts Pinacoteca Sabauda, Torino, Italy
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LA SIEGA - DETALLE DE UN LIBRO DE HORAS DE 1430. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France.
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DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. The End of the World and the Last Judgement: A great mountain will rise (1st time). Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.
1443-344
Phillipe de Mezieres, French Poet (ca.1357-1405) 15th C. Artist Unknown Illuminated Manuscript  Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
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Bayeux cathedral mural decors, normandy, France BAYEUX, FRANCE, MAY 14, 2024 : mural decors of Bayeux, cathedral, normandy Copyright: xZoonar.com/Bayeuxxcathedralxmuralxdecors,xnormandy,xFrancex 22188744
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Portuguese caravels, miniature from Book of Hours of the Duchess of Burgundy, manuscript, France 16th Century.
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Paris, Lemercier, Joseph-Rosé, Noël, Alexis Nicolas, Régamey, Berthier, St. Quentin, Vitrail du XVme Siècle, Reproduction of a design for a stained glass window with Saint Quintinus, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, reproduction, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Phot. col. A. Noël, Régamey lith, height 265 mm, width 207 mm, photographer, 1859 - 1864, paper, papier, photolithography, fotolithografie, clichémaker, Work conception, 1792-09-02 - 1871, after a design by, French, 1803-06-29 - 1887-01-01, printer, drukker
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COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS - ABADON (ANGEL EXTERMINADOR). Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Fresco depicting a sumptuous robe being made and ornate with gold and jewels. Dated 15th Century
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Jakob (called Jäcklein) Rohrbach (died 20 or 21 May 1525) was a leader of the peasants in the Peasants' War of 1525. Jäcklein Rohrbach was burnt alive...
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GENEALOGIA DE LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA - REINA BLANCA DE CASTILLA - (CONJ 99483) - MINIATURA DEL S XVI. Author: CARTAGENA ALONSO DE. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. BLANCA VON CASTILLA. BLANCA REINA. ALFONSO VIII DE CASTILLA HIJA.
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Laborers Build Fortress 1100.
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Miniature from a book: Johannes on Patmos, Anonymous, 1475 - 1500 drawing. miniature   parchment (animal material). gold leaf. deck paint brush John (writing) on the island of Patmos, possibly the eagle beside him
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GENEALOGIA DE LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA - SANCHO II EL CAPELO REY DE PORTUGAL DESDE 1233 A 1248 - CODICE COPIADO EN EL SIGLO XVI POR DIONISIO. Author: CARTAGENA ALONSO DE. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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