Illumanu

This tumblr aspires to become a helpful resource for history (and mainly fashion history) research and focuses primarily on illuminations from medieval and renaissance manuscripts.


Note: I am not a professional fashion historian. If you spot any inconsistency or outright fallacy somewhere in the picture descriptions please feel free (or even better, obliged) to let me know!

LIST OF FEATURED MANUSCRIPTS

by collection and location

AUSTRIA

-all featured manuscripts from Austria can be found at imareal-

Heiligrenkreuz Stiftsbibliothek

Lilienfeld Stiftsbibliothek

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien


NETHERLANDS

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Hague at kb.nl 

  • 74 G 27 (L’Epistre d’Othea by Christine de Pizan) at kb.nl 

Museum Meermanno, the Hague

GERMANY

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg at Biblioteca Palatina

Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart at the library’s site 

FRANCE

Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon, library’s site

Bibliothèque nationale de France, library’s site

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris; site here

USA

Bancroft Library, Berkeley at digital scriptorium 

University of Chicago Library, site here

University of Texas at Austin

-Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

at Harvard University, Cambridge

-Houghton Library, site here

 J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; site here

Morgan Library, NY; site here

John Hopkins University, Baltimore; at digital scriptorium

- John Work Garret Library

Washington Library of Congress

UNITED KINGDOM

the British Library, London; site

Glasgow University Library

Bodleian Library, Oxford; their site here

BELGIUM

Bibliothèque Générale de L'Université de Liège; site here

Wittert manuscripts

other manuscripts

  • ms. 3591 aka the Book of Hours of Gérard van der Stappen
  • ms. 363 aka the Gospel book of Averbode

SWITZERLAND

-all Swiss manuscripts collections can be found at e-codices

Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek at e-codices

Basel Universitätsbibliothek

Bodmerian Library, Cologny at e-codices 

Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek at e-codices

Engelberg Stiftsbibliothek at e-codices

Biblioteca Madonna del Sasso, Orselina; at e-codices

Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Trogen

Luzern Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek; at e-codices 

Sarnen Benediktinerkollegium; at e-codices 

Schlatt Eisenbibliothek; at e-codices

St Gallen

-St. Gallen Kantonsbibliothek; at e-codices

-St Gallen Stiftsarchiv

Cod. Fab. 1 aka Liber viventium Fabariensis  at e-codices

-St Gallen Stiftsbibliothek

Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire Lausanne

Bibliothèque de Genève; at e-codices

Schaffhausen Ministerialbibliothek; at e-codices

Min. 8 (gospel book) at e-codices