Den Haag, KB, 76 E 4

Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme

Flanders or Utrecht; c. 1450-1500

Beschrijving

465 column miniatures (70/16x73/60 mm); 1 historiated initial (22x33 mm); 34 schematic drawings; decorated initials with border decoration

Herkomst

Acquired in 1809 as part of the collection of J. Visser of The Hague (no. 168)

Codicologie

Vellum, ff. 152, 290x210 (215x155) mm, 2 columns, 41 lines, littera textualis. Dutch. Binding: 19th-century brown leather

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Pagina: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12


1. King

2. March: Aries

3. April: Taurus

4. May: Gemini

5. June: Cancer

6. July: Leo

7. August: Virgo

8. September: Libra

9. October: Scorpio

10. November: Sagittarius

11. December: Capricorn

12. January: Aquarius

13. February: Pisces

14. The celestial spheres, the orbits of the planets, ...

15. Amazons

16. Soldiers

17. Naked sages

18. Brahmans

19. People that burn their dead

20. People that kill their old parents

21. Giant

22. Dwarfs

23. People that are born with grey hair

24. People that bear quintuplets and live only eight y...

25. People that eat raw fish

26. People with hands back to front

27. People with feet back to front

28. People with dog's heads

29. People with small mouths

30. Cannibals

31. Cyclopes

32. People with one foot

33. People without heads

34. People that live of the scent of apples

35. Wild men with six fingers

36. People with silver armour

37. Race of women with beards

38. People that live both on the land and in the river...

39. Wild men with pig's bristles

40. Race of women with dog's teeth