Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Crusaders Bible 13th Century - Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M 638; fragments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Nouv.acq.lat.2294, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 83.MA.55 (formerly Ludwig Collection) http://www.faksimile.de/werk/Kreuzritterbibel.php?we_objectID=59

Crusaders Bible

13th Century - Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M 638; fragments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Nouv.acq.lat.2294, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 83.MA.55 (formerly Ludwig Collection)

http://www.faksimile.de/werk/Kreuzritterbibel.php?we_objectID=59



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  1. kaisersozay said: Beautiful. Dunno if you caught this, but a nice show (for TV) recently on illuminated manuscripts in early through medieval England. bbc.co.uk/program… check it out if u have time.
  2. dead-revolutionaries reblogged this from yama-bato and added:
    Ohhh, so beautiful! Illustrations on medieval scriptures are so vivid and elaborate!
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