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an illuminated manuscript with floral designs

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an old book with designs on it and writing in the middle one is decorated with images of people

We might think we have a general grasp of the period in European history immortalized in theme restaurant form as 'Medieval Times.' After all, writes Amy White at Medievalists.net, “from tattoos to video games to Game of Thrones, medieval iconography has long inspired fascination, imitation and veneration.” The market for swordplay, armor, quests, and sorcery has never been so crowded.

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four open books with flowers and plants drawn on one page, each containing an individual's own design

In-depth study: ancient Manuscripts, medieval and modern Codices, historical and futuristic Bestiaries. How to reference iconic titles and compose Optimal Promtps without mentioning original styles

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an illuminated manuscript with the birth of jesus and two women in blue, gold and red

This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

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an illuminated manuscript with flowers and leaves

Originating in Ghent or Bruges, Flanders, in the early sixteenth century, this Dominican Book of Hours focuses on the Passion of Christ and the Corpus Christi. This book masquerades as a purely authentic medieval manuscript, when in fact it is a modern and medieval hybrid. The majority of the manuscript was made ca. 1500, but it had remained unfinished. Its nineteenth-century owner, John Boykett Jarman, commissioned English illustrator William Caleb Wing to "finish" the manuscript ca. 1850…

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Gospel Lectionary, Ornamented headpiece and initial letter "E," with the Resurrection of Christ, and the St. John the Baptist Preaching (John 1:6-9), Walters Manuscript W.535, fol. 9r. This is one of twenty-six known manuscripts by the hand of Luke the Cypriot. He copied it in 1594 at his episcopal see of Buzǎu (in Wallachia, now Romania) and soon took it to Moscow, where it was richly illustrated with New Testament scenes by a team of anonymous Russian artists.

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an old book with some writing on the page and symbols around it in different colors

[ROSICRUCIANISM]. 'Physica Metaphysica et Hyperphisica D.O.M.A.', a Rosicrucian handbook, in Latin and German, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER

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an old book with pictures of different animals and letters on it's front cover

It takes no small amount of inquiry, from no few angles, to truly understand a form of art. This goes even more so for forms of art with which most of us in the 21st century have little direct experience.

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an illuminated manuscript with images of people and animals

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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