Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index



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  • Title: Giving of the Heart
  • Creator: Jehan de Grise, illuminator
  • Description: A woman offers her heart to her lover. Bas-de-page detail.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Courtly Love Hearts
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14
  • Date: 1338-1344
  • Related Work: Full page and entire manuscript available from Bodleian Library: http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msbodl264
  • Current Location: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 59r
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript Illuminations
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment)
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  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 435 (full page)/318 (full page)/
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