And on a lighter note - illuminated manuscript cookies from Luminarium Blog.
‘The tale of Lohengrin, kinght of the swan’ (1914) after a drama by Richard Wagner by T.W. Rolleston, illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Ogham from Book of Ballymote manuscript, Royal Irish Academy collection, circa 14th - 15th century.
(Source: ceredwyn)
A Hypocrite Kneels Before a Satanic Beast as it Tramples a Saint
French Manuscript 13th Century
Working on some calligraphic caps for my website
An illuminated manuscript from Owen Jones’ The Grammar of Ornament, 1856
Painting & drawing some decorative caps. Thinking of turning them into necklaces with the pendants and string seen in the 2nd photo. Y/N?
Tapestry by William Morris
The Book of Kells (Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais)
ca. 800
Gazu Hyakki Yakō (画図百鬼夜行?, “The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons”)
© Toriyama Sekien
Handcolored woodcut, ca. 1500, origin unknown
Juan de Torquemada. Meditationes deu Contemplationes devotissimae.
Rome: Stephan Plannck, August 21 1498.
Albumasar. Flores astrologiae.
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, November 18, 1488.
The Ormesby Psalter is one of the most well-known yet mysterious manuscripts to survive the Middle Ages. Commissioned in the late thirteenth century to celebrate a marriage that never took place, this exquisite book of psalms—likely meant for private devotion by its wealthy patrons—was left unfinished.
