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| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1465 A.D. | Single Bell tent, gold ball apex, blue band around roof below apex, followed by a decorated gold band, then an ornate blue and white band, white roof with vertical thin red lines, roof edge guy ropes with five points of attachment, each rope end is attached to the tent at a small half circle above the roof edge decoration, roof edge decoration is gold and white on a blue background followed by a gold band, white walls with thick vertical red line and a horizontal red line along the wall’s bottom edge, including the door, there appears to be a window on the opposite wall to the door, and there also appears to be a dark green diamond patterned flooring. | “Le Cueur d”Amours Espris (The book of the Heart Possessed by Love).”
“Tent of Hope.”
French about 1465, Vienna, Nationalbibliothek MS 2597. |
Davis, C., http://www.isd.net/cdavis/rene.htm,
October 8th 1998.
http://www.isd.net/cdavis/images/rene02.jpg D’Ancona, P., & Aeshlimann, E., The Art of Illumination, An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, London, 1969, fig 117. |
| Ten white bell tents and one white pavilion in the right background, banners fly from some of the tents, it appears that some of the tents have some blue line decoration. | “Le Cueur d”Amours Espris (The book of the Heart Possessed by Love).”
“Meeting by the stream.”
French about 1465, Vienna, Nationalbibliothek MS 2597. |
Davis, C., http://www.isd.net/cdavis/rene.htm,
October 8th 1998.
http://www.isd.net/cdavis/images/rene11.jpg D’Ancona, P., & Aeshlimann, E., The Art of Illumination, An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, London, 1969, fig 117. |
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| 1465 A.D.
Two pavilions and five bell tents. White pavilion (foreground), only one ball apex with a flag pole is visible, golden roof ridge decorative band with inscription (“LOVSVAS OVASSOI MSEISCOXIKSMH...”), roof panels indicated by lines, roof edge guy ropes have five point attachment to top of golden roof edge decoration with inscription (most of which is obscured by the guy ropes), white wall panels are clearly indicated, bottom edge or guy rope pegs are not visible, rectangular door. White bell tent (left foreground), square banner atop ball apex, red apron, white roof with panels clearly delineated, five point roof edge attachment, red roof edge decoration with gold band at bottom, wall panels are clearly delineated. |
“Le Cueur d”Amours Espris (The book of the Heart Possessed by
Love).”
“Honour’s Tent.” French about 1465, Vienna, Nationalbibliothek MS 2597. Miniatures from King René of Anjou’s ‘Le Cueur d’ Amours Espris, French 1457. ‘Desire (Cueur’s Page) is seen kneeling before the tent of the general. Honour, whom he begs to rescue Cueur, now trapped by the Lady Sorrow and languishing in a dungeon. Honour sends Renown to the rescue, and Cueur is freed. p. 103. p.86. Österreichishche, Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. |
Davis, C., http://www.isd.net/cdavis/rene.htm,
October 8th 1998.
http://www.isd.net/cdavis/images/rene12.jpg D’Ancona, P., & Aeshlimann, E., The Art of Illumination, An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, London, 1969, fig 117. Holme, B., Medieval Pageant, London, 1987, p. 86. |
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