The hand lettering, the colorful miniature paintings… so pretty.
Master of the View of St Gudula
Young Man Holding a Book, ca. 1480
Small Prayer Book for All Occasions
Caspar Meuser (1550-1593)
15th Century French Songbook
The Heart Book, Denmark 1550’s.
The Heart Book, Denmark 1550’s.
The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III. Shown above is the beginning of ballad no. 43 .
French music book, circa 1475.
This heart-shaped songbook — the Chansonnier Cordiforme, also known as
the Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, consists of seventy-two parchment
folios, in a heart shaped leather binding that opens to a double heart
shape.
Resources:
1. http://contentinacottage.blogspot.com/2011/07/15th-century-book-of-hours-heart-shaped.html
2. http://marinni.livejournal.com/794662.html
