Medieval and Manuscripts

Getty Tondal

The Getty Tondal, also known as Les visions du chevalier Tondal is an illuminated manuscript from 1475, now in the Getty Museum. It is a French version and is the only surviving fully illuminated manuscript of the Visio Tnugdali. It has 20 miniatures by Simon Marmion and elaborate borders with "CM" for the initials of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy and her husband Charles the Bold. The text was scribed by David Aubert in Ghent, while the miniatures were done in Valenciennes, where Marmion was based. There are only 45 folios total, only the fifteen pages with two-column miniatures and five pages with single column miniatures have borders. The manuscript is fully available online.

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• ▸Feather tights
• ▸Hypergiant
• ▸Durrow Abbey

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