Gothic Manuscripts - Study Guide Terms

Weeks 5-10ish

Bird's Head Haggadah

Moses Receiving the Law

Southern Germany

c. 1300

Hortus Deliciarum

Crucifixion Scene
c. 1175-95, Alsace

Birds’ Head Haggadah

Seder Preparation

Southern Germany

c. 1300

Golden Haggadah

Adam Naming the Animals

Barcelona

c. 1320

Golden Haggadah

Creation of Adam and Eve

Barcelona

c. 1320

Book of Chess and Games

Game of Chess

Court of Alfonso X

Spain

c. 1270s

Book of Chess and Games

Game of Backgammon

Court of Alfonso X

Spain

c. 1270s

Manuscript Production Jobs

Parchment Making

Ruling

Ink Production

Pigment Production

Quill Pen Cutting

Writing

Painting

Binding

Manuscript Production

Bamberg Monastic Miscellany

Germany (HRE)

12th Century

Parchment Production

Get Animal Skin

Soak It

Stretch It

Dry It

Scrape It

Rupertsberg Manuscript

Hildegard of Bingen

Scivias

Germany (HRE)

c. 1160s

Codex Amiatinus (Bible)

Ezra the Scribe

Jarrow, Northumbria

Early 8th Century

The Book of the Queens

Christine de Pisan

France

c. 1410

Ivory Book Cover

Gregory the Great and Students

c. 1000

Moralized Bible

Queen Blanche and King Philip, Colophon Image

Paris

c. 1208

Scriptorium Portrait

Tower at San Salvador de Tabara

Beatus of Liebana - Commentary on the Apocalypse

Madrid, Spain

c. 970

Gigas Codex (Devil’s Bible)

Bohemia

13th Century

Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux

Paris

c. 1320s

The Book of the Queens (again)

Christine de Pisan

France

c. 1410

Hereford Mappa Mundi

England

c. 1300

Book of Hours

William de Brailes

Oxford

c. 1235

Ivory Booklet

Northern France

c. 1300

Decretals (Law Codes)

Southern France

c. 1300-40

Moralized Bible

Cleric and Artist, Colophon Image

Paris

c. 1208

Romance of the Rose (Full Page)

c. 1490

Romance of the Rose (Main Illustration)

c. 1490

Opening Folio

Romance of the Rose

Pucelle

c. 1330

Opening Folio (Bottom)

Romance of the Rose, God of Love

Pucelle

c. 1330

Carved Ivory Mirror

Woman Crowning her Lover

France

c. 1300

Ivory Mirror Back

Couple Playing Chess

France

c. 1325

Ivory Mirror

Storming of the Castle of Love

France

c. 1350

Ivory Mirror (Again)

Hawking Excursion

France

c. 1350

Manesse Codex

Germany

c. 1310

Unicorn Tapestry 1

Hunt Begins

c. 1495

South Netherlands

Unicorn Tapestry 2

Unicorn at the Fountain

South Netherlands

c. 1495

Unicorn Tapestry 3

Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle

South Netherlands

c. 1495

John on Patmos

Cloisters Apocalypse

France

c. 1330

Chartres West Facade Rose Window

Last Judgement

France

c. 1215

Bourges Tympanum

Last Judgement

France

c. 1230

Triumph of Death

Girolama da Cremona

Italy

c. 1460s

Dance of Death

Wall Painting

Tallinn, Estonia

c. 1480s

Hammelburg Mahzor

Haman and Sons Hanging

Lower Franconia, Germany

c. 1348

Arma Christi

Psalter of Bonne of Luxenbourg

France

c. 1340s

Arma Christi

Book of Hours

French/Flemish

c. 1500

Arma Christi

Master of the Magdalene Legend

Diptych

c. 1500

Crucifixion Scene

Germany

c. 1400s

Jean Pucelle

French

1300-1355

Made the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Bonne of Luxenbourg prayerbook

Made Book of Hours for Jeanne d’Evreux

Incredibly rich/realistic style, lots of crowds (in the examples)

Christine de Pizan

French

1364-1430

Very educated woman

Wrote criticism/debate of Romance of the Rose

Wrote The Book of the City of Ladies

Duke of Burgundy

Burgundy kind of near France

Philip the Bold (1342-1404) - Hours of Philip the Bold, enthusiastic about art and books

Philip the Good (1396-1467) - huge patron of the arts, lots of famous artists were in his court

Opicinus

Italian

1296-1353

Mapmaker

Vaticanus and Palatinus

Made maps with people as the oceans or the landmarks, very very strange

Moralized Bible

Creation: God as Architect of the World (note the architect’s compass)

Paris

c. 1220-30

Astrolabe

Catalonia, Spain

c. 980

Astronomical instrument, star chart used for calculating the position of various celestial bodies

Alexander Romance

Alexander the Great Flying with Griffins

Paris

c. 1420

Tres Riches Heures (Book of Hours)

January Calendar Page

Duke of Berry (owner)

Limbourg Brothers (creators)

1410-15

Hours of Jeanne D’Evreux (Page)

Arrest of Christ / Annunciation / “Blind Man’s Bluff”

Pucelle

Paris

c. 1324

Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg

Throne of God (ascending the stairs)

Jean le Noir

France

c. 1340

Devotional Text

Rothschild Canticles

Flanders

c. 1320

Devotional Text (ft. Noodly Appendage)

Rothschild Canticles

Flanders

c. 1320

Transi Tomb of Guillame de Harcigny

Laon, France

c. 1390

Transi Tomb of Bishop Henry Chichele

Canterbury Cathedral

c. 1443

Psalter of Bonne of Luxenbourg

Living and Dead Kings

France

c. 1340