#fleur-de-lis

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BOOK OF HOURS for use in Rome. (France, c.1555) A liturgy in Latin made c. 1555 for King Henry II of France.

The pages of this Book of Hours appropriately resemble Fleurs-de-Lis, a symbol for French royalty. It was made for King Henry II of France contained prayers and other short texts, which were read at set times during the day. Not only does the very shape of the pages testify to the object’s royal patron, so too does the high quality of the decoration. The manuscript measures only 182×80 mm and has 129 leaves.

‘Written by hand, medieval manuscripts are very different from printed books, which started to appear after Gutenberg’s mid-fifteenth-century invention of moving type. One difference in particular is important for our understanding of manuscripts. While printed books were produced in batches of a thousand or more, handwritten copies were made one at the time. In fact, medieval books, especially those made commercially, came to be after a detailed conversation between scribe and reader, a talk that covered all aspects of the manuscript’s production. This is the only way the scribe could ensure the expensive product he was about to make was in sync with what the reader wanted. Consequently, while printed books were shaped generically and according to the printer’s perception of what the (anonymous) “market” preferred, the medieval scribe designed a book according to the explicit instructions of its user. ’—Erik Kwakkel on medievalbooks.nl (2014)

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Another entry for our “dragons and unicorns” week: Two unicorns hold up a crest decorated with two more little unicorns, again from Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae.

The caption reads: Fortuna opes aufferre non animu potest.

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Sword of a constable of France, French, late 15th century

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[aaberd]

Magical times 💜💙

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grounds for divorce

“I was completely in love with you until you insulted the orange one!” - fleur's very legitimate reason for divorcing her husband

(no, it has nothing to do with rarity! what are you talking about?)

applejack vector

thank you for your service, vector artist and aj herself.

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Spring Musings 2022 iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography Original Photographers Photographers On Tumblr Lowy Lens, Rijks Film, No Flash

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Hand Embroidered Pink Bats Pillow. https://www.etsy.com/listing/640918001

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Queen of spades & queen of hearts

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Language of Flowers: Fleur-de-luce

There is, in the language of flowers, a flower for every day of the year. The flower for today, December 4, is Fleur-de-luce, which signifies fire. Image above from Wikipedia. The Fleur-de-Luce (more generally known as fleur de lis) is widely thought to be a stylized version of the species Iris pseudacorus, or Iris florentina. However, the lily (genus lilium, family Liliaceae) and the iris…

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Mediterranean Entry - Mudroom Large entryway photograph with a dark wood front door, beige walls, and a tuscan marble floor

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The Annunciation from a Psalter (Ms. 14 (85.MK.239)), Flemish, ca. 1250

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luna x fleur fankid based on that one tweet

[thebeautifulbook]

FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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