від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
A new Anglo Saxon calendar that I’ve never seen before! Wow, what a rarity nowadays, to find something of this sort. These are the original Labours of the Months! This is a b/w version of a contemporary manuscript Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, nearly a perfect copy...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
A solid English Apocalypse from the later 13th century! It resembles a few other manuscripts from the same family, but it’s always nice to see these falchions, kettle hats, buckler shields. And the scene with dance and...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
Great helms, a well, horse-like elephants, some infantry weapons like bardiche. Generally, this manuscript is a good reference point for drawing quality (on the low...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
Greaves, kettle hats and falchions – the ultimate badass infantryman of about 1300. Knee cops are either worn or not (or worn under maik chausses? A long-standing question.) Also: – Refilling of oil lamps! – Steam organ! – nice great helms...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
This is the earliest copy of Konrad der Pfaffe’s romance Rolandslied – and, fortunately for us, a well-illustrated one! One takeaway from my ongoing extensive study is that when romances use the word “nasal”, it can mean ANYTHING. Normal nasal,...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
One of the high-quality English bestiaries of the 13th century. The battling horses are a unique scene, I think hardly found in any other iconographic source. A hunter wearing armour – perhaps someone practiced that, when facing dangerous animals? Decent...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
by Medieval Advisor 1303-1308 England, BSB Cod.gall. 16 – Psalter of Queen Isabella of England This is one of the biggest decorated manuscripts of around 1300 which contains a large number of curious marginal figures. These are small, but carefully drawn and are...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
by Medieval Advisor Roda Bible is the motherload of all detail on the daily life and warfare of Iberian Christian lands, and specifically Catalonia where it was produced, at the Ripoll monastery. A staggering range of items is depicted, for the 11th century (if not...
від user_tryglav722 | Лют 8, 2025 | Стародавні рукописи
1463 Germany, ÖNB HAN-MAG Cod. 2823 – Historienbibel / Chronicon Mundi An outstanding manuscript, newly published by the ÖNB! Such wealth of presice detail delivered to us in many tens of miniatures. Highly realistic armour, robe, belts, bags, crossbows, beds,...
від user_tryglav722 | Січ 26, 2025 | Історія, Ковальство
Автор: Л.Б. Архангельский Протягом усіх років, що я займаюся ковальством доводилося стикатися з проханнями викувати меч – «Ну, такий типу руського … Загалом, сам розумієш!» Але питання щодо руських мечів не таке просте, як здається...
