Some medieval and renaissance heart imagery for the romantics among you

 

Miniatures From The Book of Knighthood (1460) Containing Christine Pizan's Épître d'Othéa - Flashbak Image from: (1503) Pinterest

Livre d’heures à l’usage d’Amiens

Image from: Livre d’heures à l’usage d’Amiens | BnF Essentiels

Heart shaped codex contains Danish love poetry,  Copenhagen, KB, Thott MS 1510.

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O rosa bella by John Bedyngham in Chansonnier cordiforme, ca. 1475, made in France (Savoy). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Rothschild 2973, fols. 8v–9. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, image from: The Soundtrack of the Renaissance Court | Getty Iris

Young Man Holding a Book, Master of the View of Saint Gudula Netherlandish ca. 1480

Image from: Master of the View of Saint Gudula | Young Man Holding a Book | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

Happy Valentine's Day!

For more information on unusual book styles from the medieval period, go here: Strange Medieval Books | medievalbooks

Happy Galentine's Day Friends

 

A Heart in Honour of St Valentine

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A medieval heart shape brooch held by the British Museum, item number 1967,1208.8.

This brooch is made of gold and was created 1400-1464. It is part of the Fishpool Hoard which was discovered in Nottinghamshire, England in 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishpool_Hoard

It has a vertical pin and has three loops at the base where pendants were once attached. It has twisted bands of blue and white enamel with beaded borders. The enameled bands have a lovely punched gilt floral motif in them.

The inscription on the back says 'Je suy vostre sans de partier' (I am yours forever) with white enamel, each word alternating with foliate sprays but the enamel has been lost over time.