June 20, 2009

The black and white woodcut images used to create these works were found online at the Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection

  
Three woodcut images illuminated by Lady Veronica Kelly. Above left: The Singing Lesson; from Spiegel des menschlichen
Lebens, Augsburg, c. 1475. Above right: A wedding; also from Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens, Augsburg, c. 1475.
Below: Jeanne d'Arc taken to prison at Rouen, from Martial d'Auvergne, Les Vigilles de la Mort du Roy Charles V, Paris 1493.

A group of huntsmen listening to the orders of their master; from Livre de la Chasse et les
Oraisons de Gaston Phébus, early 15th century. Illuminated by Lord Christopher Valli.

A gentleman and his retainers; from the Book of St. Albans, Westminster 1496.
Illuminated by Lord Robert Kelly.

  
Left: Two monkeys - printer's mark of Felix Baligault, Paris, illuminated by our guest Lady Jillian.
Right: An amberfish and an amber tree; from Medieval Life Illustrations, illuminated by Lord John Cuddeback.

A bull and a maiden; from the Defensorium Virginitatis Mariae, 1471.