Chansonnier
По мнению французского историка и богослова Жака де Витри (1180-1244), женщины, ведущие танец, носят на шее невидимый колокольчик дьявола. Нечистый не упускает их из вида, подобно пастуху, который следит за коровой, указывающей, где пасется стадо, звоном колокольчика. [1] Танец Саломеи. Деталь…
Chansonnier
The Songbook of Zeghere van Male contains local and international 500 year old songs and motets. Made in 1542, the 1200-page long book is rich in illuminations, depicting ornamental and historiated initials and interlinear drawings not necessarily related to its content. Also known by its call number MS 125-128 in Cambrai’s Mediathèque Municipale, the late … Continue reading "Weird And Wonderful Illustrated Letters From A 16th Century Songbook"
Le chansonnier de Zeghere van Male est un recueil de chansons de 1542 aux étonnantes illustrations grotesques.
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion. Christian monasteries first developed...
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Another illuminated initial to begin this song
