28.10.12

Ancient carts


The cars of every epoch have had a proper configuration, depending on the type of transport to be undertaken.

Os carros de todas as épocas tiveram configuração adequada, conforme o tipo de transporte a efetuar.

Miniaturist Flemish (1490-1510)-'september'-illumination on parchment   Venezia-Biblioterca Nazionale Marciana (Grimaldi breviary)

Jacob van Maerlant (ca 1235-ca 1300)-'transporting the wounded Arthur by carriage'-illumination-(1325-1335)   The Hague-Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Spieghel Historiael, Den  Haag, KB, KA, 20, fol. 163v)

Limbourg Brothers (15th century)-'september-grape harvest'-illumination   Chantilly-Musée Condé (Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry)

Miniaturist unknown (15th century)-'cart'-illumination   Paris-BNF (Giovanni Boccaccio; De casibus virorum illustrium- ms Fr 226, fol. 143v)

Miniaturist unknown (14th century)-'a cart for transporting a winebarrel'-illumination -ca 1326   Paris-BNF (ms Fr 521, fol. 66v)

Heinrich Krustein (16th century)-'cart'-illumination   Nürnberg-Staadtbibliothek (Amb. 279.2º, fol 29v-Landauer Hausbuch, 1542)

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