Spanish illuminated manuscripts

This Book of Hours was produced in Bruges ca. 1440-50. Although it is misbound and missing several illuminations, those that survive reveal a striking collaboration of Spanish artists and a group of South Netherlandish illuminators known now as the Masters of the Gold Scrolls. The Spanish influence suggests the manuscript was possibly created for a member of the Catalan community in Bruges, and the possibility of Spanish ownership is strengthened by the added seventeenth-century heraldic…

Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425

Jonah and the Whale: illuminated manuscript leaf by 'The Spanish Forger', ca. 1900.

Missal, in LatinIlluminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (Pisa), 1330-1340]275 x 195mm., i (paper) + II + 130

Triumphal Entry of a Princely Couple [Illuminated Medieval Manuscript Fragment] Spanish Free Library of Philadelphia Notes: Voelkle, William, assisted by Roger S. Wieck. The Spanish Forger. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 55. ShelfMark: Lewis E M 75:11 Creator Name: Spanish Forger - Artist

Spanish, c. 1500

The ARMENIAN LANGUAGE —- (Armenian font) — Hayeren Armenian is an early branch off the tree of Indo-European languages. You might not think so right away when you hear it as it sounds …

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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…

Marginalia – Manuscript Art

Epistle lectionary, Switzerland, St. Gall, ca. 880