Manuscript of Swordsmiths' Signatures and Sword Connoisseurship.
This document is the oldest existing manuscript relating to swordsmiths in Japan. The text contains a description of the year 1316, which indicates that the original was written in the late Kamakura…
Missal of Eberhard von Greiffenklau.
The Missal of Eberhard von Greiffenklau is a masterpiece of Dutch manuscript painting. It was originally produced in the second quarter of the 15th century and features work by the Masters of…
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Masters of Zweder Van Culemborg - Master of Catherine of Cleves, Active
History Bible.
Illustrated manuscripts of vernacular paraphrases of biblical history, so-called history Bibles, are probably the best-known products of the workshop of Diebold Lauber in Hagenau, Alsace. Like this manuscript, most of them transmit…
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Lauber, Diebold, Active - Malergruppe A, Active
Book of Hours of Daniel Rym.
This richly illuminated Book of Hours was created circa 1420-30 for Elizabeth van Munte and her husband Daniel Rym. The couple is represented throughout the manuscript in a number of ways. Rym's…
The Saxon Chronicle of the World.
Sächsische Weltchronik in bayerischer Mundart, mit der ersten bayerischen Fortsetzung
The Saxon Weltchronik (World chronicle) is extant in several versions. As an abridged version, the so-called review or recension A enjoyed a wider distribution than the larger (and today regarded as authoritative)…