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LEFT: Detail from
Funeral Oration of Manuel II for
his brother Theodore. Constantinople, 1409–11.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Département
des Manuscrits, Paris.
Supplément grec 309.
The Emperor was seated on a raised dais,
carpeted
with small rugs,
on one of which
was spread a
brown
lion skin
and at the back
was a cushion
of black stuff embroidered in gold.
After
conversing for some
considerable time with
us, the Emperor at length
dismissed us, and we returned to our lodgings, whither
later on his Highness sent up a stag, which his huntsmen
had just brought in to the palace.
With the Emperor at
our audience
had been
present the Empress his wife,
with three young princes, the eldest of whom may have
been eight years old.
Clavijo - 1403
RIGHT: Manuel II, John VIII, Theodoros
(later
Despot of
the Morea), Andronikos
(later Despot
of Thessaloniki),
the Basilissa Helena. Constantinople, 1403-5.
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Ms. Ivories A53, |
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Hyperperon of Manuel II
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Visconti Book of Hours
Florence, BNC, Fondo Landau Finaly, MS 22
Belbello da Pavia, ca. 1400
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Initial Letter
Gradual, Siena, LP, Cor. 4
Gerolamo da Cremona
Student of Belbello |
Les Très Riches Heures
Herman Limbourg, ca. 1410-1412 |
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc du Berry
Ms. 65, Musée Condé, Chantilly
folio 51v
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Les Très Riches Heures
folio 52r |
