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Harry Marinakis
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 Posted: Wed 05 Feb, 2014 4:49 pm Post subject: 14th C illuminated manuscript: Romance of Alexander |
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I was reading one of Oakeshott's books today, and he made reference to an illuminated manuscript called Romance of Alexander, written AD 1338-1344. In case you hadn't found this manuscript yet, it has some really great, detailed images.
This website has large, high-resolution scans (300 dpi) of the illuminations.
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleia...=msbodl264
(on the left frame of the web page click VIEW ALL to see the pages)
A low-resolution sample is included here.
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Last edited by Harry Marinakis on Thu 06 Feb, 2014 3:47 pm; edited 2 times in total
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Bruno Giordan
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| Posted: Thu 06 Feb, 2014 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Nice find. Everybody willing to link its images must pay attention to the cospicous copyright statement.....
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Harry Marinakis
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| Posted: Thu 06 Feb, 2014 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Look at the guy spreading his cheeks and mooning someone at the very bottom of the page 
Maybe he's mooning the tax collector?
Who says Medieval people didn't have a sense of humor? Reminds me of something from the Canterbury Tales.
LMAO
From the Bodleian Library
Romance of Alexander
Folio 79 r
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/ms.bodl.264/79r.jpg
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Neil Melville
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I can second Harry's recommendation of this 'Romance of Alexander'. The ms has over 250 illustrations of armoured warriors, combat on foot and on horse-back, all sorts of armour and details such as the guard chains for securing sword, dagger and helm. Mail, scale, coats-of-plates, bascinets +/- visors, great helms, kettle-hats, falchions, bucklers, longbows, crossbows, cannon and trebuchets - it's all there. Go feast your eyes.
Neil
N Melville
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This is a standard topic