French Medieval Manuscripts

French Medieval Manuscripts

skysnail @lj выложила ссылку на сайт со старинными картинками, за что ей большое спасибо. Там много разных тем: от астрологии до гербариев, есть даже пчеловодство.

Меня же больше всего заинтересовали картинки быта и фантастические создания, в существование которых тогдашние люди искренне верили.

Vintage Printable – French Medieval Manuscripts
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Левитация
Blue Gallery - medieval-levitation

Men with weapons on odd animals; scene from the Crusades?

Depcition of avarice; greed and jealosy

------------------Монстры---------------------

Fantasy - Drawing - Monster - Three headed dragon

Person riding many-headed fire engine red animal, carrying bowl of food; other person subjugated.

Images of hell: Punishment for fraud

dragon

----------------Морские создания--------------------

Medieval - Mermaid playing music

Merman

Морской епископ- в его существование верили на самом деле, как и в русалок.
Fantasy - Line Drawing - Merman in cape

Fantasy - Line Drawing - Merman

---------------------Казни-------------------------

Church or king hanging naked individual by ankles on tree

Man beheading others while king and citizens look on

Men hanging deathly white baby upside down by ankles from tree.

-----------------Церковь-------------

Modest women at leisure; with children and animals.

Bestowing items on people.

------------Библейские и мифологические сюжеты------------

Сатурн, пожирающий детей
Saturn eating babies; other individuals either attempting to join in or attempting to stop

Ноев ковчег
Noah's ark in the middle of those unsaved.

French, book of hours, Bathsheba bathing.

---------------Быт-----------------------

-------------Рисование--------------

Дама за рисованием
Woman painting portrait of man; expression of concentration on face.

Person painting self portrait.

Person painting

Art critics and cat.

Princess on two swans playing auto-harp type instrument; audience looks on behind room divider.

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В спальне
Man and woman in bedroom plus lots of children.

Man and woman in bedroom; cat under the bed near pointed shoes.

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Something having to do with bad things: baby with serpents, man and women in bed, other people looking on concernedly.

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Knights and princesses all around.

Farmer hoeing with beehive, reindeer and elephant

Man selling pigeons.

People in tree picking fruit; gathering fruit in skirt

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