medieval miniatures of women

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Allegory of Music (Echecs amoureux)

Allegory of Music (Echecs amoureux)

Allegory of Music, in a manuscript of Echecs amoureux Public domain reproduction of illuminated medieval manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Penthesilea as one of the Nine Female Worthie

Penthesilea as one of the Nine Female Worthie

Penthesilea as one of the Nine Female Worthies, Petit armorial équestre de la Toison d'or, fol. 248. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Manuscrits occidentaux, cote : Clairambault 1312. Français : Penthésilée... More

Hodierna and Jaufre Rudel, illuminated manuscript

Hodierna and Jaufre Rudel, illuminated manuscript

Summary 13th-century Italian manuscript miniature of Jaufre Rudel dying in the arms of Hodierna of Tripoli, Bibliotheque Nationale Française, Manuscrits Français 854, fol. 121 22:18, 8 April 2006 Silverwhistl... More

Grandes chroniques de France Jean Fouquet: Jaufre rudel, illuminated manuscript

Grandes chroniques de France Jean Fouquet: Jaufre rudel, illuminated m...

Death of the trobador Jaufre Rudel, illumination, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 854, fol. 121v

Codex Manesse 071v Kristan von Hamle

Codex Manesse 071v Kristan von Hamle

Deutsch: Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 71v: Herr Kristan von Hamle (mittelalterliche Erhörung eines Minnen, er wird im Korb nach oben gezogen) English: Codex Manesse, 71v, Kristan of... More

Giftermålsbalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

Giftermålsbalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Marriage Code Engaged couple, woman and man in urban clothes.

Köpmålabalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

Köpmålabalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Merchant Code A woman and a haberdasher in a shop.

Ärvdabalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

Ärvdabalken - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Heritance Code A man and a woman discuss their heritage which is illustrated in the form of a jug and a churn. The speech scroll by the man says: “Give me the jug”, by the woman: “The jug is better.”

15th-century unknown painters - Boethius - De consolatione philosophiae - WGA15796

15th-century unknown painters - Boethius - De consolatione philosophia...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Recueil de textes ascétiques - KBR ms9272-76 f182

Recueil de textes ascétiques - KBR ms9272-76 f182

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Traités sur les vertus cardinales de François Desmoulins (plat de couverture) - BNF Fr12247

Traités sur les vertus cardinales de François Desmoulins (plat de couv...

Public domain image of early renaissance art, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cecco d’Ascoli, L’Acerba, Florence, Plut. 40.52

Cecco d’Ascoli, L’Acerba, Florence, Plut. 40.52

Cecco d’Ascoli, L’Acerba, chapter on greed. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 40.52, fol. 24v. Deutsch: Cecco d’Ascoli, L’Acerba (Kapitel über den Geiz). Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana,... More

Histoire d'amour sans paroles - Musée Condé f8

Histoire d'amour sans paroles - Musée Condé f8

Public domain image of medieval art, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Medieval bathing

Medieval bathing

Medieval miniature of bathing womenРусский: Средневековое изображение купающихся женщин

Geoffroi de La Tour Landry teaching to his daughters (Châteauroux - BM - ms 4)

Geoffroi de La Tour Landry teaching to his daughters (Châteauroux - BM...

Geoffroi de La Tour Landry (i.e. the Knight of the Tower, the author of the book) is teaching to his daughters. Miniature from a manuscript of the Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles (The Book of the Knigh... More

Geoffroi de La Tour Landry teaching to his daughters (France, Chantilly, Musée Condé, Bibliothèque, Ms 293)

Geoffroi de La Tour Landry teaching to his daughters (France, Chantill...

Français : Geoffroi de La Tour Landry en train d'enseigner à ses filles, enluminure tirée d'un manuscrit du Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles du chevalier de La Tour Landry (France, Chantilly, Musée Cond... More

Extrait du Livre de Gerard de Nevers

Extrait du Livre de Gerard de Nevers

Français : Extrait du Livre de Gerard de Nevers - Bibliothèque nationale France - Lyoset Liedet et Guyot d'Augerans

Apemene outrageant - Public domain dedication image

Apemene outrageant - Public domain dedication image

Français : Apemène outrageant Darius. Speculum humanae salvationis. Lyon - BM - ms. 0245 (f. 140v)

Master of London Wavrin 02 - Public domain dedication image

Master of London Wavrin 02 - Public domain dedication image

Polski: Royal 15 E IV f. 41v Gandoline in bed Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

Roman de Gèrart de Nevers - Public domain dedication image

Roman de Gèrart de Nevers - Public domain dedication image

Polski: Le Maître de Wavrin, 1450-1460, Papier Public domain photograph of medieval manuscript miniature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

52-aspetti di vita quotidiana, amore,Taccuino Sanitatis, Cas

52-aspetti di vita quotidiana, amore,Taccuino Sanitatis, Cas

Coitus Liber Tacuina sanitatis (XIV century), Ububchasym Baldach, s. XIV-XV, Bibliotheca Casanatense Roma. Italia.

Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Economic

Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Economic

The Theory of Intellectual Virtues, from "Ethics, Politics and Economics" by Aristotle

Arundel-39v-détail-c5458-07 - Public domain sheet music scan

Arundel-39v-détail-c5458-07 - Public domain sheet music scan

Français : Maître du Hiéron, British Library, Ms. Arundel 71, f.39v détail. Ce folio au début du livre 3 présente les trois états (église, noblesse, et travail) en débat devant théologie, logique, arithmétique... More

Dedication by Guillaume Fichet of his book Rhetorica to Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy

Dedication by Guillaume Fichet of his book Rhetorica to Yolande of Fra...

Dedication miniature, folio 1 of a manuscript of Rhetorica by Guillaume Fichet : Guillaume Fichet offers his book to Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy

Dialogue à la louange du sexe féminin - BNF Fr2242 f5

Dialogue à la louange du sexe féminin - BNF Fr2242 f5

Public domain scan of 15th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frontispice Histoire de la Toison d'or BnF-Fr138-f1 Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse

Frontispice Histoire de la Toison d'or BnF-Fr138-f1 Maître de la Chron...

Français : Frontispice Histoire de la Toison d'or BnF-Fr138-f1 Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse

Guillaume Crétin, Débat entre deux femmes - ClevMoA 1991.157 w

Guillaume Crétin, Débat entre deux femmes - ClevMoA 1991.157 w

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kneeling knight received a swan-crested helmet

Kneeling knight received a swan-crested helmet

A kneeling knight (left), wearing a red sleeveless surcoat over his armour, received a swan-crested helm from a standing lady (right) in a pink dress. Detail of a miniature from a manuscript of the Romance of ... More

Le Parement des dames - BNF Fr1848 f3

Le Parement des dames - BNF Fr1848 f3

Public domain scan of 15th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f051r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f051r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f062r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f062r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f173r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f173r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), a medieval manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lady in... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f190r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f190r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f211r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f211r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f200v (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f200v (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f234r (detail)

Maastricht Book of Hours, BL Stowe MS17 f234r (detail)

Detail of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animals. The book of hours was probably made for an aristocratic lad... More

Mother in bed, with seven children in a cradle (British Library Royal 15 E VI f 273r (detail)

Mother in bed, with seven children in a cradle (British Library Royal ...

Illumination showing the interior of a bed chamber. A woman, the new mother (Beatrix) is sitting up in bed gesturing toward an immense cradle containing her seven infants (the swan children). The cradle is bei... More

Woodworking Balthasar Behem Codex - A painting of a group of people in a room

Woodworking Balthasar Behem Codex - A painting of a group of people in...

Public domain image of early renaissance art, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quadrilogue invectif - BNF fr19127 f9v

Quadrilogue invectif - BNF fr19127 f9v

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Medieval women hunting - A painting of a man with a bow in a field

Medieval women hunting - A painting of a man with a bow in a field

Medieval hunting: the women in the middle is shooting with a bow and arrow, the lady on the left is using a rod to drive game toward the huntress.

Euriant se dévêt pendant que sa servante Gondrée perce le mur avec une chignole.

Euriant se dévêt pendant que sa servante Gondrée perce le mur avec une...

Français : Euriant se dévêt pendant que sa servante Gondrée perce le mur avec une chignole.

French knights jousting - Froissart's Chronicles (Volume IV, part 1) (1470-1475), f.19v - BL Harley MS 4379

French knights jousting - Froissart's Chronicles (Volume IV, part 1) (...

French knights jousting (Miniature) Joust between Pierre de Courtenay and the Sire de Clary

Marriage of Bohemond I and Constance - Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier (late 15th C), f.170 - BL Royal MS 15 E I

Marriage of Bohemond I and Constance - Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernar...

Marriage of Bohemond I, Prince of Antioch, and Constance, daughter of King Philip I of France, circa 1106

Women activities in middle ages

Women activities in middle ages

Français : Mariage de Marie de Brabant et du roi Philippe III de France. Manuscrit des Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis, British Library, London. Deutsch: Heirat Marias von Brabant mit dem französischen... More