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Illuminated manuscript

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I've been collecting and adding medieval manuscript/miniature art for the in gamebuilding Ui's over the last few months so I thought I'd make a thread for anyone who's

interested in art from the time period of Dots. Below is a brief description of some of theart used so far with images.

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STEPPE

Jami Tawarikh

Finding illuminated manuscript art for the Steppe culture has been difficult so as a workaround I've been using sources from a Timurid version of a Jami Tawarikh book written in1430. Originally the jami Tawarikh was used to justify mongol hegemony over Iran and

was composed by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani.

The original book is often described as "the first world history" and is used to describecultures and major events in world history from China to Europe (mainly the history ofGenghis Khan I think.)


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Eighteen songs of a nomad flute

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sources which are descriptive of the mongol nomad lifestyle which led me to the sublimeeighteen songs of a nomad flute.

The work is a poetic story of lady Wen-Chi's abduction into the nomad steppe from herhometown of Ch'en-liu. These images are all from an original 14th Century handscrollbook which have been remastered possibly in the 17th or 18th Century but I'm

uncertain. (That just means colored in)



GREEK

The alexander romance

Originally commissioned by the emperor Alexios III this manuscript was created in the14th century possibly in trebizond by either georgian or lazi illuminators. The book was


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Menologion of Basil II
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This book was created in the 11th century. A menologion is a certain type of bookproduced in the byzantine world that told the story of saint's lives in chronological order.Often, as in the case of this book they were heavily illuminated.




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Armenian illuminations

I was surprised to find that there is actually a lot of sources for Armenian manuscript artas it seems there was actually a law against destroying all forms of Armenian art through

the ages. The only problem though is that a vast majority of it is created in the forms ofgospels which makes the images anti descriptive for buildings constructed.





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Georgian illuminators

I had struggled with georgian art (the info on the alexander romance was new to me) soI had been using a 17th century georgian artist called Mamuka Tavalkalashvili. The artcomes from a book called The knight in a panthers skin which was commissioned byLevan II Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia.



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MIDDLE EAST

Seljuk

Maqamat

The Maqamat is a series of short poems centred around a silver tongued travellingtrickster. The original poems were created in the 10th century by hamadhani withilluminations being added in the 13th century.

The maqamat is not only a seljuk book as I also have a syrian version of the book alsofrom within the Dots timescale.

Seljuk


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Agayib nama

I've not been able to gather much information on this manuscript book other than it'spersian and it's dated 1388 and it's pretty much the only source of Zoroastrianism art Ican find.



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Shahnama

Also referred to as the shahnameh this is a classical persian poem originally writtenaround 1000 AD by the poet Ferdowsi. Originally created as a historical account of therise of Persia much of the poetry is mythical.

Numerous illuminated books have been created around the shahnama and again I'veused both Persian and Syrian versions.

Seljuk



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Egypt

Kalila et dimna

The kalila et dimna is another book which transcends different regions of the middleeastern world as I also have a persian version. The main versions of these books tend tobe centred around animals although these copies seem to have humans as the centralcharacters. Dated between 1201-1300 AD

Egypt



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Seljuk



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Kitab al mawalid

The kitab al mawalid represents illuminations of the Zodiac and phases of the moonpersonnified. The early illustrations of this book mark the earliest forms of satan anddemons (not that I was looking) that I've seen, dated to around 1300.



Almovarids

I've found little evidence of Almovarids in actual art so I've used Moors as depicted in theCantigas de Santa Maria (rico codex) which is a spanish illuminated manuscript book.Commissioned by Alfonso X El sabio the cantigas is primarily a source of gallician poetryand music but is richly decorated with gothic style illuminations.

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EASTERN EUROPEAN

Radziwill Chronicle

The radzwill or primary chronicle is a historical account of the kievan rus from 850-1110.Although the original manuscript is now long lost I've used a version which may havebeen created sometime in the 15th Century. The manuscript also seems to have hadsomeone adding poor but slight alterations to it over time.



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CENTRAL EUROPEAN

Codex manesse

Again this codex is primarily a work of poetry which has also been illuminated. Created inZurich for the Manesse family in the 14th Century the manuscript starts by depicting thepoems of Emperors followed by kings and dukes before eventually depicting the commonpeople.



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Chronicon Pictum

Created in Hungary in the 14th Century the chronicon pictum provides knowledge ofHungarian life, historical traditions and legends with even Attila the hun making anappearance although his images have been disrupted. The pictum has probably the mostdetailed illuminations from the time period as even the eyeballs of the people depictedhave been hand painted.



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Sachsenspeigel

The great German law code which covers both feudal and common law. Although it was

originally written in 1220 it was still in use as a law code in Germany till as recently asthe 1900s.



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NORTHERN EUROPEAN

Les Grandes chroniques de france

There are actually three volumes written over a period of 25 years with all three beingrichly decorated illuminated manuscript books. It's possible that these three books mayhave be written in competition with each other as I think they were all commissioned bydiffering Dukes.



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Luttrell psalter

In the 14th Century Sir Geoffrey Luttrell could feel his death coming and socommissioned this manuscript as an account of his personal actions. The book is richlydecorated with accounts of gospels, deeds and examples of everyday life in medieval

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SOUTHERN EUROPEAN

The Decameron

Created by the Aragonese king of Naples between 1401-1500.

(all the info I've got and possibly only the date is correct)


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The Beatus of Facundus

In the the 8th century, in a monastery in the mountains of northern Spain, 700 yearsafter the Book of Revelations was written, a monk named Beatus set down to illustrate a

collection of writings he had compiled about this most vivid and apocalyptic of the NewTestament books. Throughout the next few centuries his depictions of multi-headedbeasts, decapitated sinners, and trumpet blowing angels, would be copied over and overagain in various versions of the manuscript. Below is a selection of images from one suchmanuscript known as the Beatus de Facundus (or Beatus de Len), dating to 1047 andpainted by a man called Facundus for Ferdinand I and Queen Sancha.





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We're also down to the final sub culture now which needs images attached (CE tree) so ifthere's anyone interested in art and would like to help please contact Hross orResurrection.

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