Salvete Omnes,
November evenings can be a longish affair for sure, so let us enjoy some high Middle-ages manuscript art from the German lands. And this 1440sAD manuscript of the Nibelungelied or the Song of Nibelungs epic poem- and is wonderfully illuminated with XV century miniatures - full of vivid colors, complex scenes, and caparisoned destriers, warhorse, palfrey horses, tournaments, damsels, officials and armored knights and ...other riders.
The manuscript is held at the National Library in Berlin - nota bene it was named after a XIX century German librarian and art historian Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen, who actually worked on preserving and restoring this fine manuscript.
Valete
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