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....
Heidelberg UB, Cod. Sal. IXe, Livre d’heures, Paris, 1420-30
Heidelberg UB, Cod. Sal. IXe, Livre d’heures, Paris, 1420-30
Between Passions and Numbers
In a book mostly dedicated to the lives of Saints and Passions and a last section that comprises a calculus treatise, we find a single...
Treasures of gold, guts and pipes
After the last post with trumpet-monster images from Egerton MS 3277, 2nd half of the14th century, here some of the wonderful treasures...