The Spinola Hours
Date Description Source Reference
1510 - 1520 A.D. One bell tent in the right hand middle ground, pointed apex, line decoration on roof and walls, three point roof edge guy rope attachment. 

There are probably four vague tent shapes on the hill in the top right corner of this illumination.

“Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum ms. Ludwig IX. 18, f. 166r; the Spinola Hours, Ghent or Bruges, early sixteenth century.” de Hamel, C., A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Oxford, 1986, p. 183.

 http://www.getty.edu/museum/objects/Manuscripts/83_ML_114_FOL__11_A.htm


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