The Five Senses of Mary
Enjoy the multi-sensory experience! Another exquisite Royal Book of Hours from 15th century France... Fitzwilliam Museum MS 62, The Hours...
Savoi(re)'s Musical Flowers - Part 1
After over a year of silence (although Servir Antico's Facebook page has served also as depository of images), I return to this blog with...
The Hybrid Orchestra of Cambrai (1)
These musician hybrids come from a very small Book of Hours made for a woman at the diocese of Cambrai at the turn of the 14th century....
Planets, Muses and The Chess of Love
BNF, Département des manuscrits, Français 143, Evrart de Conty, Le livre des échecs amoureux, text by Jacobus Magnus (1360 ?-1425 ?),...
Between Heaven and Hell
This time not a Book of Hours, but a book of the hours of the Antichrist. Although at the end of this illuminated manuscript there are...
Heidelberg UB, Cod. Sal. IXe, Livre d’heures, Paris, 1420-30
Heidelberg UB, Cod. Sal. IXe, Livre d’heures, Paris, 1420-30
Sounding legends - the 'Romans Arthuriens'
Among battlefields and love stories, the cycle of King Arthur’s legends written down in this 800-folio ‘Romans Arthuriens’ (c.a...
Trumpet-monsters and organ-heads
The 'Bohun Psalter', (Egerton MS 3277), produced during 2nd half of the 14th century in England, does not only showcase important...
Sa-Voir starts the blog with birds, flowers and pipes!
Discover who's hiding behind those trees! 'The Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans'. Another fascinating French books of hours, where I could...