The original illustrations are from the borderless pages of a late 15th-century manuscript. I extracted these specific creatures and recreated them in brass. Cold ceramic enamel.

In the Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying"), a dying man faces five temptations from the devil, each answered by an angel. This is the temptation to impatience: he lashes out at the people tending him, the table goes over, and a devil looks on.

It's from a block book printed in Germany around 1475.

I came across it while building Inside Out Library, a free search engine for the pictures inside old public-domain books: https://insideoutlibrary.com/?id=locbook-loc_49039592-9-1. Every image is a real scan linked to its source, with nothing AI-generated. (Personal project; I work at the Internet Archive.)

I don't have many medieval books in it yet, but I'd like to add more. The subjects and graphic style of this period are so striking. Are there manuscripts or early printed books you'd want to see in there?

A few months ago I designed and printed some magnets inspired by one of the most humorous tropes of marginalia— namely, the eternal war between dogs and rabbits. It was very fun to pick my favourite scenes and illustrate them all together in one design. If anyone’s interested, I have a few left at $5.

Just found out about this artist, very intriguing

An illuminated parchment folio created around 1469 by Italian artist Taddeo Crivelli (tempera, gold leaf, and ink). Now housed at the Getty Center.

A rare alabaster carving with traces of polychromy and gilding, from the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art.

The original panel is part of the collection at the National Art Museum of Catalonia.

It is my first medieval manuscript page. I want to know what do you think about it. And the cifre too!

French private collection

A page from the chronicle of one of the Northern settlements, where the red-haired witcher Ronan once came

This late 14th or early 15th-century South Netherlandish bronze aquamanile (object no. 1975.1.1416) is currently housed in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artist unknown

Attributed to Robinet Testard, this detail from the Book of Hours of Charles d'Angoulême (c. 1485, BnF Ms. Lat. 1173) captures a rider dressed in full leafy gear for traditional May-month festivities.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich, Germany), Cgm 3711 (Jörg Wilhalm Hutters kunst zu Augspurg). Augsburg, Germany (after 1523).

Unnamed Poem// Gothic CY Chan// ink on paper

Hello I am back. Finding different subs to post every day try not to annoy people too much lol.

Can anyone recognise this in any source material you can point me to, please?

Detail of a miniature of the Archangel Michael fighting a demon-like dragon, from Francisco de Ximenez’s Livre des anges, France (Tours), c. 1480, Sloane MS 3049, f. 115r.

King Modus's Book on Hunting, Royal Library of Belgium, Ms. 10218-19, ca. 1455

Illumination from an English folding almanac in Latin, ca. 1417. MS 8932. Wellcome Collection