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Sources:
- Illustration from Croniques abregies commençans au temps de Herode Antipas… (Shelfmnark: Ms-5089) on 62 recto held by the National Library of France
- Epistolary and Apocalypse of Charles the Bold, 217r, in French from Belgium, Bruges ca. 1470 held by the Morgan Library.
- Illustration of Fortune and her wheel, Held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Shelfmark: Français 19137: Roman de la Rose, fol. 1r.
- Illustration of the death of Anne of Bohemia from shelf mark: Harley 4380 on fol. 22 held by the British Library.
- Illustration from Regnault de Montauban, rédaction en prose. Regnault de Montauban, tome 1er on fol. 21v (Selfmark: Ms-5072 réserveTome Ier) held by the National Library of France.
Okay, so today’s paper doll dress was one of the first I drew and inked, but somehow I forgot about it in the shuffle, so it is ending up being one of the last that gets shared. That’s just how things work out sometimes, I suppose.
When it comes to citing manuscript illustrations, I try as often as possible to go back to the original source if I can and I try to give enough information that if I was working at the front desk of the library that had one of these books and a person handed them the information I provide, that person would be able to find the item (or at least make a really good guess at it.)
The reality is that not all websites give all the details that might be needed, but I do my best to provide as much as I can. Medieval documents generally don’t have title pages and usually don’t have clear authors, but places often give them titles, which is what I’ve used here. It’s not perfect, but it is at least a place to start. I’ve included a manuscript number or shelf-mark when I could find one.
I am endlessly frustrated when I see a great manuscript illustration on some website and there’s absolutely no clue where the book is from or how one might actually verify the details. It’s not that I think people are intentionally making up things, but dates and locations are especially easy to get messed up in the Internet’s game of telephone. Plus, context matters when looking at what people are wearing.