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Marque Nicolas Bonfons - Public domain sheet music scan

Marque Nicolas Bonfons - Public domain sheet music scan

Brand of the parisian medieval printer Nicolas Bonfons Français : Marque du libraire-imprimeur parisien du Moyen-Âge Nicolas Bonfons

De La Conqueste de Constantinoble

De La Conqueste de Constantinoble

Front page from De la conqueste de Constantinoble, Geoffroy de Villehardouin (Edition 1838, Paris, : édition faite sur des manuscrits nouvellement reconnus..., edited by Henri de Valenciennes) Ελληνικά: Εξώφυλλ... More

Enluminure manuscrit Aymeri de Narbonne

Enluminure manuscrit Aymeri de Narbonne

Miniature from the first page of the medieval manuscript #24369 of the chanson de geste about Aymeri de Narbonne, displaying Charlemagne in front of Narbonne Čeština: Karel Veliký před Narbonne, ilustrace chans... More

Enluminure manuscrit BNF 24369 Aliscans

Enluminure manuscrit BNF 24369 Aliscans

Miniature from the page 197 recto of the medieval manuscript #24369 of the chanson de geste Aliscans (Bibliothèque nationale de France) Français : Enluminure décorant le feuillet 197 recto du manuscrit médiéval... More

Roman Edipe illustration - Public domain sheet music scan

Roman Edipe illustration - Public domain sheet music scan

Miniature from the first page of the medieval book "Le Roman de Edipe" printed by Pierre Sergent Français : Miniature décorant la première page du livre médiéval « Le Roman de Edipe » imprimé par Pierre Sergent

Hein van Aken dreaming of a rose

Hein van Aken dreaming of a rose

Hein van Aken dreaming of a rose Contents: Heinrich von Aken, Die Rose. Roman van Cassamus. Die Frenesie Place of origin, date: Brabant; c. 1300-1350 Material: Vellum, ff. 77, 243x162 (200x120) mm, 53 lines, li... More

Epitaaf Janne Colijns - Public domain dedication image

Epitaaf Janne Colijns - Public domain dedication image

Nederlands: Berlijn, Gemäldegalerie, 2129, Meester van de Barbara-Legende  This image is available from the Netherlands Institute for Art Historyunder digital ID 53216. This tag does not indicate the copyri... More

Treaty of Fouron, illuminated manuscript

Treaty of Fouron, illuminated manuscript

Grandes Chroniques de France, Paris, BnF, département des Manuscrits Français : Traité de Fouron entre Louis le Bègue, roi de France et Louis le Jeune, roi de Germanie (878). (FR 2813) fol. 161v. Grandes Chro... More

Ferdinando - Esortazione di insorgere contro i baroni ribelli, circa 1486 - 2391599

Ferdinando - Esortazione di insorgere contro i baroni ribelli, circa 1...

Italiano: Esortazione di insorgere contro i baroni rebelli. - [Napoli] : [Francesco Del Tuppo], [circa 1486]. - 4 c. ; [*]⁴ ; fol..

Lex Baiuvariorum - Public domain medieval manuscript

Lex Baiuvariorum - Public domain medieval manuscript

one page of the Lex Baiuvariorum from the 9th century Ingolstätter manuscript that today is at the University Library of Munich; the page shows the paragraph that determines: "... About the families, who are ca... More

Ars Magna de Ramon Llull - Public domain dedication image

Ars Magna de Ramon Llull - Public domain dedication image

Miniatura del Breviculum ex artibus de Ramon Llull Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Amiel - Pepin the Short - Public domain portrait painting

Amiel - Pepin the Short - Public domain portrait painting

This painting belongs to the Portraits of Kings of France, a series of portraits commissioned between 1837 and 1838 by Louis Philippe I and painted by various artists for the Musée historique de Versailles.

Enluminure manuscrit BNF 24369 Coronement Loois

Enluminure manuscrit BNF 24369 Coronement Loois

Miniature from the page 75 recto of the medieval manuscript #24369 of the chanson de geste Li coronemenz Looïs (Bibliothèque nationale de France) Français : Enluminure décorant le feuillet 75 recto du manuscr... More

Public Domain Images - Adam lay ybounden

Public Domain Images - Adam lay ybounden

A cropped image of "Adam lay ybounden", a 15th Century Middle English poem which forms part of the famous Sloane Manuscript (BL MS. 2593), held in the British Library. Digitised by the British Library, the 2D m... More

Public Domain Images - DallanForghaill

Public Domain Images - DallanForghaill

author unknown; over 100 years, presumed deceased; public domain artwork

De rebus Hispaniae, illuminated manuscript

De rebus Hispaniae, illuminated manuscript

Latina: Manuscrito de De rebus Hispaniae Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edle Dame1 - Public domain sheet music scan
Geistliches Spiel 1652 - A black and white drawing of a crowd of people
I syng of a mayden - Public domain dedication image

I syng of a mayden - Public domain dedication image

A cropped image of "I syng of a mayden", a 15th Century Middle English poem which forms part of the famous Sloane Manuscript (BL MS. 2593), held in the British Library. Digitised by the British Library, the 2D... More

John Gower world Vox Clamantis detail

John Gower world Vox Clamantis detail

Public domain reproduction of illuminated medieval manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Libro de los Juegos, Alfonso X y su corte

Libro de los Juegos, Alfonso X y su corte

Public domain image of medieval art, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petruslied - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Petruslied - Public domain illuminated manuscript

The song of Saint Peter from Freising, an Old Bavarian text from around 880 AD and the oldest song in any Old High German idiom. The song is the lower part of the page. Català: El canto de San Pedro, manuscri... More

Tayler The Legend of Sir Guy - Public domain portrait engraving

Tayler The Legend of Sir Guy - Public domain portrait engraving

The Legend of Sir Guy (engraving), Tayler, F. (19th century) / Private Collection / © Look and Learn / The Bridgeman Art Library.

Textus Roffensis ms - Public domain dedication image

Textus Roffensis ms - Public domain dedication image

First page of the Textus Roffensis. From Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5; now kept in Strood at Medway Archives (DRc/R1). Scanned from The Anglo-Saxons, ed. James Campbell, 1990, Penguin Books, p. 53.

Public Domain Images - Helge og Yrsa

Public Domain Images - Helge og Yrsa

Artwork by en:Jenny Nyström (1854 - 1946), en:1895. Published in "Ekermann, A. (1895). Från Nordens forntid : Fornnordiska sagor bearb. på svenska / Med orig. teckn:r af Jenny Nyström-Stoopendaal. Stockholm, P... More

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 031v-032r

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 031v-032r

Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik, coat of arms of the Teutonic Order

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 261v-262r

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 261v-262r

Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik, tomb of Grand Master Ludwig of Erlichshausen

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 146v-147r

Tartu, University Library, Mscr 154, fol. 146v-147r

Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik, coat of arms of Grand Master Hartmann of Heldrungen

C inicial Rams de Flors

C inicial Rams de Flors

Aragonés: C inicial florida d'o prencipio d'o prologo de Rams de Flors

Heredia Grant Cronica d'Espanya I

Heredia Grant Cronica d'Espanya I

Aragonés: Retrato de Johan Ferrández d'Heredia en a E inicial d'a Grant cronica d'Espanya I

P inicial Libro de Marco Polo

P inicial Libro de Marco Polo

Aragonés: P inicial d'o prencipio d'o Libro de Marco Polo. En a parte inferior d'o folio diz en provenzal "vinheta a un baston et hi aia un mercader" fendo referencia a la miniatura

Primera pachina Grant Cronica d'Espanya III

Primera pachina Grant Cronica d'Espanya III

Aragonés: Primera pachina Grant Cronica d'Espanya III. Apareixe Johan Ferrández d'Heredia

Pachina inicial Secreto Secretorum

Pachina inicial Secreto Secretorum

Aragonés: Pachina inicial d'o Secreto Secretorum.En a D inicial se representa a Aristótil

Heredia Grant Cronica de os Conquiridors

Heredia Grant Cronica de os Conquiridors

Aragonés: Retrato de Johan Ferrández d'Heredia en a E inicial d'a Grant cronica de los Conquiridors

Heredia Grant Cronica d'Espanya III

Heredia Grant Cronica d'Espanya III

Aragonés: Retrato de Johan Ferrández d'Heredia en a E inicial d'a Grant cronica d'Espanya III

O inicial d'a Grant Cronica d'Espanya

O inicial d'a Grant Cronica d'Espanya

Aragonés: A la dreita Alifonso XI de Castiella y Alifonso IV de Portugal. A la cucha os reis de Granada y Marruecos, redotaus en a Batalla d'o Salado (1340)

L inicial Libro de los Emperadors

L inicial Libro de los Emperadors

Aragonés: L inicial Libro de los Emperadors

Pachina inicia d'o Libro de los fechos et conquistas del principado de la Morea

Pachina inicia d'o Libro de los fechos et conquistas del principado de...

Aragonés: Pachina inicia d'o Libro de los fechos et conquistas del principado de la Morea

Prencipio de la Flor de las Ystorias d'Orient

Prencipio de la Flor de las Ystorias d'Orient

Aragonés: Prencipio de la Flor de las Ystorias d'Orient. En a E inicial se representa a Aytón de Gorigos, autor d'o libro

Pachina inicial Libro de los Emperadors

Pachina inicial Libro de los Emperadors

Aragonés: Pachina inicial Libro de los Emperadors

Prencipio Secreto Secretorum

Prencipio Secreto Secretorum

Aragonés: Pachina Prencipio d'o Secreto Secretorum.En a D inicial se representa a Aristótil

S inicial Rams de Flors Sant Agostín

S inicial Rams de Flors Sant Agostín

Aragonés: S inicial con a fegura de Sant Agostín en Rams de Flors

Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors

Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors

Aragonés: Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors. Se representa a Nino

Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors II

Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors II

Aragonés: Primera pachina Grant Cronica de los Conquiridors II

A Scribe or Copyist - Public domain dedication image

A Scribe or Copyist - Public domain dedication image

Illustration from Illustrated History of Furniture, From the Earliest to the Present Time from 1893 by Litchfield, Frederick, (1850-1930)

Rolandslied - Public domain medieval manuscript

Rolandslied - Public domain medieval manuscript

Deutsch: Roland stürmt den Tempel Mahomets. Rolandslied des Pfaffen Konrad. Übersetzung bzw. Bearbeitung der altfranzösischen Chanson de Roland (um 1100). Blatt 57v

Aye d'Avignon

Aye d'Avignon

Français : Aye d'Avignon, chanson de gesteČeština: Titulní list knižního vydání písně z roku 1861

Bovo d'Antona - Public domain sheet music scan

Bovo d'Antona - Public domain sheet music scan

Italiano: Bovo d’Antona, Venezia, Pietro Quarengi Bergamasco, 1514 Public domain photograph of medieval object / medieval style artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caplletra N-Ordinacion de la manera como los reyes daragon ellos mismos se coronaran

Caplletra N-Ordinacion de la manera como los reyes daragon ellos mismo...

Original text: Ordinacion feyta por el muyt alto e muyt excellent Princep e Senyor el Senyor Don Pedro tercero Rey dAragon, de la manera como los Reyes dAragon se faran consagrar e ellos mismos se coronaran.Eng... More

Cod Winob 10825 - Public domain dedication image

Cod Winob 10825 - Public domain dedication image

page of Paulus Hector Mair, Mscr. Dresd. C 93 (1540s), German longsword section: fol. 75v: 112: Am schnit mit ainem uberfallen aus der Kron fol. 76r: 113: Die ersten Kampfstuck des langen Schwerts sorry, thi... More

Heinrich der Teichner - Public domain dedication image

Heinrich der Teichner - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Dichter Heinrich der Teichner. Getuschte Federzeichnung. Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doolin-de-mayence1 - Public domain sheet music scan

Doolin-de-mayence1 - Public domain sheet music scan

Français : La Fleur des batailles Doolin de MayenceČeština: Ilustrace z vydání La Fleur des batailles Doolin de Mayence z roku 1501

Doolin-de-mayence - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Doolin-de-mayence - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Français : La Fleur des batailles Doolin de MayenceČeština: Titulní list vydání La Fleur des batailles Doolin de Mayence z roku 1530

Epitafio épico del Cid

Epitafio épico del Cid

Español: Texto del Epitafio épico del Cid (c. 1400) en un detalle de la parte superior del folio 115v de la Crónica del famoso caballero Cid Ruy Díez Campeador, Burgos, Fadrique Alemán de Basilea; abad Juan Ló... More

Gaufrey

Gaufrey

Français : Gaufrey, chanson de gesteČeština: Titulní list knižního vydání písně Gaufrey z roku 1859

Gui de Nanteuil

Gui de Nanteuil

Français : Gui de Nanteuil, chanson de gesteČeština: Titulní list knižního vydání písně z roku 1859

Holzschnitt der Erstausgabe von Hermann Botes „Eulenspiegel“

Holzschnitt der Erstausgabe von Hermann Botes „Eulenspiegel“

Deutsch: Holzschnitt der Erstausgabe von Botes „Eulenspiegel“

Libro de Alexandre - Public domain medieval manuscript

Libro de Alexandre - Public domain medieval manuscript

Español: Libro de Alexandre (primera mitad siglo XIII), ms. del siglo XIV. Incipit: Senores, se quisierdes mio seruiçio prender (h. 1), 154 h. perg.Signatura: VITR/5/10 BNE

Mainet - A black and white image of a book

Mainet - A black and white image of a book

Français : Mainet, chanson de gesteČeština: Titulní list knižního vydání písně Mainet z roku 1871

Mester de clerecía - Public domain dedication image

Mester de clerecía - Public domain dedication image

Español: Estrofa segunda del Libro de Alexandre, manuscrito O. Texto: «Mester traigo fermoso, non es de joglaría / mester es sin pecado, ca es de clerezía / fablar curso rimado por la cuaderna vía / a sílabas... More

Orvarodd - Public domain sheet music scan

Orvarodd - Public domain sheet music scan

Orvar Odd informs Ingeborg about Hjalmar's death

Otia Imperialia - The title page of the first edition of the novel otta imperialia

Otia Imperialia - The title page of the first edition of the novel ott...

Otia Imperialia, a work by Gervais of Tilbury (1214)

Primer foli del terç de Lo Crestià

Primer foli del terç de Lo Crestià

Català: "Detall del recto del primer foli del Terç de Lo Crestià" (obra de Francesc Eiximenis, nascut a Girona, entre 1328 i 1332 i mort a Perpinyà el 1409).http://www.escriptors.com/autors/eiximenisf/pagina.p... More

Turba phil

Turba phil

Turba philosophorum taken from the book Artis Auriferae 1752

Alfonso X el Sabio en El libro de los juegos

Alfonso X el Sabio en El libro de los juegos

Public domain image of medieval art, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alfonso X el Sabio y su corte - Public domain dedication image

Alfonso X el Sabio y su corte - Public domain dedication image

Español: Alfonso X el Sabio, rey con el que aparece mencionado por primera vez el castillo. Alfonso X el Sabio con sus colaboradores del escritorio real. Alfonso X y su corte. English: Alfonso X of Castile, f... More

Crónica de Juan II - Public domain dedication image

Crónica de Juan II - Public domain dedication image

Crónica de Juan II Public domain photograph of 16th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Die Jagd - Donaueschingen 92 - Public domain medieval manuscript

Die Jagd - Donaueschingen 92 - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Hunt, by Hadamar von Laber. Paper manuscript from 1493.Deutsch: Die Jagd - Donaueschingen 92 Verfasser Hadamar von Laber Erschienen: Oberschwaben, [1493] Online-Ausg.: Karlsruhe : Badische Landesbibliothe... More

Disputa del alma y del cuerpo - Public domain medieval manuscript

Disputa del alma y del cuerpo - Public domain medieval manuscript

Manuscrito de la "Disputa del alma y el cuerpo", poema medieval castellano.

Espéculo de los legos - Public domain dedication image

Espéculo de los legos - Public domain dedication image

Espéculo de los legos Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exemplario contra los engaños del mundo

Exemplario contra los engaños del mundo

Exemplario contra los engaños del mundo Public domain photograph of medieval manuscript, folio, 13th-14th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grande e general estoria (códice del Escorial)

Grande e general estoria (códice del Escorial)

Grande e general estoria, de Alfonso X el Sabio (Toledo, España). Manuscrito de la Biblioteca del Escorial.

Los doze trabajos de Hércules - Public domain medieval manuscript
Mocedrodrig - An old book with writing on it

Mocedrodrig - An old book with writing on it

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, medieval, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Reynard-the-fox - Drawing. Public domain image.

Reynard-the-fox - Drawing. Public domain image.

Renart the fox, drawn by Ernest Henri Griset (Q21458528), from a children's book published in 1869. Original image found here, apparently an online museum catalog. Image cropped, deskewed, and corrected for ... More

Huyge van Bourdeus pag3

Huyge van Bourdeus pag3

Español: Se trata de la portada de “Una linda historia por Huyge van Bourdeus...” libro popular de los países bajos, editado en 1869 por la Biblioteca de la Asociación literaria de Stuttgart. El título alterna... More

Retrowange nouvelle Jaques de Cambrai 13 century

Retrowange nouvelle Jaques de Cambrai 13 century

Devotional chant "Retrowange nouvelle", Jaques de Cambrai, in a 13th century manuscript Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod 389

Syntipae Fabulae - Public domain sheet music scan

Syntipae Fabulae - Public domain sheet music scan

Title page of the Latin edition of The Fables of Syntipas published in 1781

Aemethms - Public domain sheet music scan

Aemethms - Public domain sheet music scan

diagram from Bodleian Library Michael MS. 276, entitled Clavicolo di Salomone Re d'Israel figlio de David, an Italian language version of the "Key of Solomon" grimoire. It is a variant of the "Sigillum Aemeth"... More

Armer-heinrich-prolog4

Armer-heinrich-prolog4

Deutsch: Überarbeitung des Manuscript Heidelberg, UB, Cpg 341, fol. 249ra (Prologue)

Autographe - Public domain sheet music scan

Autographe - Public domain sheet music scan

Nederlands: Autograaf van Jan van den Berghe

Barlaam y Josafat - Public domain dedication image

Barlaam y Josafat - Public domain dedication image

Página inicial del manuscrito del Libro de Barlaam y Josafat (Ms. 18017 Biblioteca Nacional de España)

Brunhilda - Public domain sheet music scan

Brunhilda - Public domain sheet music scan

From German Wikipedia, see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/7e/Brunhilde.jpg.

Departement-Enfants-Aimeri - Public domain dedication image

Departement-Enfants-Aimeri - Public domain dedication image

Čeština: Ilustrace k eposu Podíly synů Aymeriho Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Der Ackermann aus Böhmen - Public domain dedication image

Der Ackermann aus Böhmen - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Johannes von Tepl: Der Ackermann aus Böhmen (Blatt 2r der Handschrift UB Heidelberg, Cod. pal. germ. 76)

Der rosendorn fragment (complete)

Der rosendorn fragment (complete)

fragment of Der Rosendorn poem; 13th-century ink on vellum. Discovered in Austria July 2019 by Christine Glaßner.

Dietrich im Kampf mit dem Wilden Mann, Stuttgart um 1470

Dietrich im Kampf mit dem Wilden Mann, Stuttgart um 1470

"Sigenot", Dietrich von Bern im Kampf mit dem Wilden Mann, zu Füßen des Wilden Mannes der Zwerg Baldung, Codex aus der Werkstatt des Ludwig Henfflin

Dragmaticon - Public domain dedication image

Dragmaticon - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Frontispiz einer Handschrift des Dragmaticon von Wilhelm von Conches, Cologny-Genf, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cod. Bodmer 188 (frühes 13. Jh.). Dargestellt sind Platon (oben rechts) im Gespräch mit der ... More

Eninski apostol

Eninski apostol

Български: Лист от Енинския апостол от 11 век Public domain reproduction of illuminated medieval manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Everyman first page - Public domain sheet music scan

Everyman first page - Public domain sheet music scan

Frontispiece from edition of Everyman published by John Sklot c. 1530.

Forme of Cury title page, title page

Forme of Cury title page, title page

Title page of Pegge's 18th century edition of the "Forme of Cury"

Fragment of the 13th-century Der Rosendorn poem

Fragment of the 13th-century Der Rosendorn poem

Fragment of Der Rosendorn poem; 13th-century ink on vellum. Discovered in Austria July 2019 by Christine Glaßner.

Gregorius3r

Gregorius3r

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hadewijch gedicht1 HsGent f49r - Public domain dedication image

Hadewijch gedicht1 HsGent f49r - Public domain dedication image

Het 1e strofische gedicht (lied) van Hadewijch: Ay al es nu die winter cout

Hanoverae MDCCCLXXVII simply Hangover 1878

Hanoverae MDCCCLXXVII simply Hangover 1878

Title page of Monumenta Germaniae Historica

HELIAND2

HELIAND2

Heliand, page 15 with remarks for the next edition

Hss.0002 - Public domain dedication image

Hss.0002 - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Wiener Handschrift Nr. 2705 (A), Blatt 55 rab(Frauenehre v.455-510, v. 569-588)

Hss.0001 - Public domain sheet music scan

Hss.0001 - Public domain sheet music scan

Deutsch: Wiener Handschrift Nr. 2705 (A), Blatt 54vab(Frauenehre v.429-454)

Hss.0003 - Public domain dedication image

Hss.0003 - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Heidelberger Handschrift Cod. Pal. germ. 341 (H), Blatt 283rab (Frauenehre v.1-48)

Hss.0004 - Public domain dedication image

Hss.0004 - Public domain dedication image

Deutsch: Ambraser Heldenbuch (Wien Cod. S.n. 2663 - d), Blatt 1rabc (Frauenehre v.1321-1526)

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