Ilias Ambrosiana
Date Description Source Reference
Later Middle Ages. A tent of indeterminate design (could be a wall or bell tent), pink in colour, blue round shields adorn the roof edge and the apex, a pink fringe adorns the fabric edge between each of the shields, no pole, guy ropes or pegs are evident.  “Plate 8, Ilias Ambrosiana, pict. XLVII, 

‘Achilles’.‘Achilles, barefooted, stands in front of his rose coloured tent and offers a libation upon a flaming altar...” 

Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Cod. f. 205 Inf.

Weitzmann, K., Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London, 1977, p. 46.
Two tents, in the same indeterminate design as above, the larger of the two tents has green shields, while the smaller of the two has brown ones. Plate 10 Ilias Ambrosiana, pict. XXXVII, ‘Nestor and Patroclus’. 

Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Cod. f. 205 Inf.

Weitzmann, K., Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London, 1977, p. 50.


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