[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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