[Elfsea] Need a picture of an illumination
D Baran
kouhosei at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 23 18:42:39 PST 2004
I don't have it, and it looks like it's out of print in the US, but you
might try one of the UK book vendors. A used copy plus international
shipping shouldn't be more than USD $20 total... It seems like a good book
to add to one's collection!
-Deanna
>
>A few months ago, I tried my hand at painting an milkmaid milking her
>cow. I got the picture from "Women in the Middle Ages" by Francis and
>Joseph Giles on page 148. If you've read the book, then you know that
>the pictures are very fuzzy. I showed it to Duchess Willow and she said
>the colors I used were very wrong and I really needed to take a look at a
>colored picture. We went back to her home and we looked through nearly
>every book she had on illumination (again, thank you, Your Grace!), but
>to no avail, we could not find a color picture of the illumination. I
>found online the MS Bodley Beastairy book, "Bestiary: Being an English
>Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodley 764" that this
>illumination might be in.
>
>My question is this....Does anyone have this book or even a color copy of
>this illumination? If so, can you scan the picture for me? I will be
>more than happy to prove a CD to burn it on, if need be.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Maria
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