Tristan
Illuminated Manuscripts
Tristan (Romance)
Detail of a miniature of Tristan battling fourteen knights of the Round Table.
Illuminated by the same artist as Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris
Tristan en prose with interpolations of Lancelot en prose (ff. 141-151)
4th quarter of the 13th century
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=52491
JPG, 1500x1075 pixels
French
Still image
IMS-06
Northern France
Tristan slays the dragon
Illuminated Manuscripts
Tristan (Romance)
Full page drawing of Tristan in armour on horseback slaying the dragon with his lance, with a magpie on a branch in the foreground.
<span>Alan of Lille, Isidore</span>
Tristan en prose with interpolations of Lancelot en prose (ff. 141-151)
2nd half of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=58822
JPG, 999x1500 pixels
Latin
Still image
IMS-05
England or France
Dragon
Illuminated Manuscripts
Lectionaries
Dragons
Detail of an initial-word panel Wa-yedabber (And the Lord spake unto Moses) inhabited by a dragon, at the beginning of Numbers.
Various workshops of St Omer (Artois) and Paris. Biblical illustrations (ff. 114-122, 259v-260v, 516v-527v) are attributed to the Cholet Group, Master of Méliacin group and Master of Honoré groups, Paris, 1283-1285.
1277-1286
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=56849
JPG, 1110x1500 pixels
Hebrew
Still image
IMS-04
Northern France