The scroll

[baronessekat]

Since it's a Champion's Scroll I can show it now, as there is no name.

The scan is not the best but here's the scroll

Equestrian Champion Maynard/Liadain Illumination = Manesse Codex Wording = The Book of Tournament

Comments

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

Nice work!

What's it based on? Reminds me of the swiss art I've looked at.

--H

[chamfron.livejournal.com]

Awesome, looks *very* manessa codexy :-)

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

The illumination is based on the Manesse Codex. It's Swiss/German from the early-mid 1300s.

Specifically this page: http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglitData/image/cpg848/1/184v.jpg

[hora-somni.livejournal.com]

OK, that is really sweet! I am totally going to have to win it now.

[maricelt.livejournal.com]

wow! very spiff.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

nicely done!

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Teh Shiny!!! You do lovely work. That's gorgeous.

*follows link to Manesse Codex*

Holy Carp! A bajillion years ago my mum was given a calendar with some of these images. She liked them so much she had some of them framed. The last 2 are hanging on the wall in my son's computer room. I had no idea where they came from and had assumed they were someone's idea of Medieval paintings.

I just might have to put them in a slightly more prominent spot.

*does happy dance of historical geekitude*

[utsi.livejournal.com]

very impressive!