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Bartolomeo da Bologna,Panegyrique de Bruzio Visconti, Italy,14th.MS599/1426 fol.6 verso. Zodiac surrounded by philosophers Aristotle,Plat, Socrates and Seneca.
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Bartolomeo da Bologna,Panegyrique de Bruzio Visconti, Italy,14th.MS599/1426 fo...

Boethius,De consolatione philosophiae(French trans- lation by Jean de Meung,see Roman de la Rose). France,15th MS 3045,fol.3. Boethius in his prison visited by the Muses.
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Boethius,De consolatione philosophiae(French trans- lation by Jean de Meung,...

A phoenix plucks at vegetation with it beak and talons.At right it lies in the flames,ready to be reborn from the ashes. Illustration from a page of text from a Bestiary or moralized natural history in Latin. The principal source is a translation of the Greek work called Physiologu. Roy.12.C.XIX.fol.49v (detail)
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A phoenix plucks at vegetation with it beak and talons.At right it lies in the...

King William I,the Conqueror,accompanied by knights and soldiers,14th century.A page of illustrated Latin text showing the Conqueror riding a horse bearing his coat of arms,three gold lions on a red ground. Cott.Claud.D.II.fol.33 (detail).
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King William I,the Conqueror,accompanied by knights and soldiers,14th century.A...

A monk healing a bleeding patient,around 1300-1340. From the Luttrell Psalter,begun before 1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Add.42130.fol.61.det (L).
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A monk healing a bleeding patient,around 1300-1340. From the Luttrell Psalter,b...

Coronation of Henry IV,1399. From Jean Froissart's Chronicle. Harl.4380.fol.186 v (detail)
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Coronation of Henry IV,1399. From Jean Froissart's Chronicle. Harl.4380.fol.18...

Titlepage to "Sacra Cosmologia",1630. Engraving,140 x 94 cm Lieure 666
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Titlepage to "Sacra Cosmologia",1630. Engraving,140 x 94 cm...

Vivant-Denon travaillant dans la salle de Diane au Louvre. Encre brune,lavis brun,plume, 49,6 x 40,9 cm INV 33405 recto
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Vivant-Denon travaillant dans la salle de Diane au Louvre....

Chinese astronomer. Watercolour
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Chinese astronomer. Watercolour

Four Angels staying the winds and the signing of the Chosen. The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse, V. Figure). Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 393 x 285mm. (monogrammed)
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Four Angels staying the winds and the signing of the Chosen. The Revelation of S...

Celtes presents his work to Emperor Maximilian. (Illustration to Conradi Celtes... quatuor libri amorum - Conrad Celtes: Four books on Love (Amores), printed for the Sodalitas Celtica, Nuremberg, 5 April 1502.) Woodcut, 216 x 150mm. (fol. A1v.)
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Celtes presents his work to Emperor Maximilian. (Illustration to Conradi Celtes....

Philosophy (Philosophia). The four heads of the winds in the corners represent the four elements and temperaments: above on the left: Fire and the Choleric temperament, above on the right: Air and the Sanguine temperament, below on the left: Earth and Melancholy, below on the right: Water and the Phlegmatic temperament. (Illustration to Conradi Celtes... quatuor libri amorum - Conrad Celtes: Four books on Love (Amores), printed for the Sodalitas Celtica, Nuremberg, 5 April 1502.) Woodcut, 219 x 148mm. (fol. A6v.) (monogrammed)
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Philosophy (Philosophia). The four heads of the winds in the corners represent t...