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!

Posts tagged "St Birgitta's cap"

end of the 13th century France or Flanders

Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire

U 964: Biblia Porta

fol. 343v - initial U, historiated

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bcul/U0964

13th century (1240s) France - Paris

Morgan Library

MS M.638: The Morgan Bible AKA the Maciejowski Bible

fol. 41v - David lays with Batsheba

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=281

I’m sure that candle is totally not an intentional innuendo.

14th century (ca. 1320-1330) Ghent

Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Douce 6: a psalter

fol. 1r - a jolly scene; a bird (sparrow?) watching, a fiddler playing, a woman dancing

http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/MS.+Douce+6

The woman appears to be wearing a style of headdress nowadays referred to as “St Birgitta’s cap”. It is famously and often depicted in Maciejowski Bible, for example here and here.