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Alsace - Braginsky Collection 7

So I just found out about this sub and thought I'd share some of my favorite pieces of medieval art, from the above mentioned museum.

My dad pointed these particular pieces out to me, great stuff.

(L) Part of The Unicorn Tapestries, around 1495–1505

Marginalia from unknown manuscript

Nereide (sea-nymph) - miniature from folio 108r from Der naturen bloeme (KB KA 16) by Jacob van Maerlant

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E\_Am-7498

Physiologus , in the Dicta Chrysostomi form. Williram von Ebersberg, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum. Decorated Manuscript in Latin on vellum. Germany, Erfurt, Saint-Peter's Abbey, c. 1150-1180. c. 175 x 132 mm. Details from: f. 65r, f. 66r.

Rochechouart Hours, use of Rome. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by a master from the circle of Jean Poyer and Giovanni Todeschino. France, Tours, c. 1500 (before 1504).

Manuscript - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 16169 [De animalibus], folio 286r

CONTEXT - Albertus Magnus, dressed as a bishop holding a crozier, introduces the quadrupedal animals, including sheep, goat, ape, horse, dog, lion, stag, elephant, boar, hedgehog (with fruit stuck to its spines), and others.

France [Loire School]; circa 1500.

Context - Dives sits at a dining table with his wife, and watches as Lazarus, surrounded by dogs, begs in the street, and is chased by Dives' servants