Camels

Camels on Heraldic Art.

 

Camel funerary figure (Rijksmuseum AK-MAK-359). China - 618-907

Earthenware figure (V&A Museum CIRC.73-1930). China - 618-907

Animals fragment (Louvre E 9962; Cl 21875 a; Cl 21875 b et c). Egypt - 969-1171

Fable: the camel that complained, Fabularum apologi (BNF NAL 1132, fol. 39v), 9th-10th C.

Bowl (V&A Museum C.1237-1919). Iran - late 12th-13th C.

Wall painting of a camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga in Spain (Met 61.219), c. 1129-1134 

The coronation mantle of Roger II of Sicily, c. 1133/1134

The Llangattock Plaques (V&A M.53B-1988), c. 1160

A female camel seeks its young, Marvels of the East (Bodl. 614, fol. 39v), mid-12th C.

A camel, bestiary (BNF Latin 6838 B, fol. 16r), 13th C. 

A camel, bestiary (Brit. Lib. Royal 12 C XIX, fol. 33), c. 1200-1210

A camel, Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 7v), c. 1200-1220

A camel, bestiary (British Library Harley 4751, fol. 24), 2nd quarter of the 13th C.

Fols. 4r, 7, 34v, and 38v, Rochester Bestiary (Brit. Lib. Royal 12 F XIII, 2nd quarter of the 13th C.

A camel, bestiary (British Library Sloane 3544, fol. 17v), 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th C.

A camel, theological miscellany (British Library Harley 3244, fol. 47v), c. 1236-1275

A camel, bestiary (BNF Latin 3630, fol. 83v), 3rd quarter of the 13th C.

Camels on fols. 16r and 78r, a bestiary (Douce 88), ca. 1300 

A boar and a camel, the Smithfield Decretals (Brit. Lib. Royal 10 E IV, fol. 152v), c. 1300-1340

Adoration of the Magi by Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1308-1311

A camel, a treatise on astrology (British Library Sloane 3983, fol. 10v), 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th C.

Camels on fols. 132v, 136v, and 148v of Concordantiae caritatis (Lilienfeld 151, fol. 132v), c. 1349-1351 

Procession of the Kings, fresco at Karskovo in Slovakia, c. 1370-1380 

Charlemagne and Ganelon, Grandes chroniques de France (BNF Fr. 2608, fol. 147v), 14th-15th C.

Fols. 17v and 84r, Fleur des estoires de la terre d'Orient (BNF Fr. 12201), beginning of the 15th C.

The merchant of camel-meat, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 72r), 15th C.

Brocaded silk lampas on a chasuble (V&A T.256 to B-1967), c. 1400-1430

The Tower of Babel, the Bedford Hours (Brit. Lib. Add. 18850, fol. 17v), c. 1410

Fols. 14v, 21v, 113r, 255r, 265r, and 275r, the Book of Marvels (BNF Fr. 2810), c. 1410-1412

Fols. 25r, 49r, and 194r, Antiquités Judaïques (BNF Fr. 247), c. 1410-1420

A monkey astride a camel, the Hours of Charlotte of Savoy (PML M.1004, fol. 160r), c. 1420-1425

A camel, herbal (British Library Sloane 4016, fol. 24), c. 1440

Camel in bas-de-page under Adoration of the Magi, book of hours (PML M.357, fol. 16r), c. 1440

Camel, Tacuinum sanitatis (Granada C-67, fol. 7r), c. 1440-1445 

A boar in a bishop's mitre rides a camel (fol. 13r) and a monkey rides a camel (fol. 40v), book of hours (PML M.358), c. 1440-1450

Jerome, Golden legend (PML M.675, fol. 118r), c. 1445-1465

Animals at a stream, Vita S. Benedicti (PML M.184, fol. 14r), c. 1450

The Macedonians attacked by animals, Histoire d'Alexandre (BNF Fr. 9342, fol. 142r), mid-15th C.

Jerusalem, Directorium ad passagium faciendum (BNF Fr. 9087, fol. 85v), 3rd quarter of the 15th C.

India, Historiae Alexandri Magni (BNF Fr. 20311, fol. 235r), 3rd quarter of the 15th C.

Bactria, Livre des merveilles du monde (PML M.461, fol. 12r), c. 1460

Battle between the Macedonians and the Massagetes, Historiae Alexandri Magni (BNF Fr. 257, fol. 146v), c. 1470-1480

Envy rides a camel, a book of hours (PML M.1001, fol. 86r), c. 1475

Monkeys on camels on fols. 106r and 106v, book of hours (PML G.4), last quarter of the 15th C.

A camel, a book of hours (PML M.136, fol. 78v), c. 1480

Africa (fol. 1) and Afghanistan (fol. 8), Secrets de l'histoire naturelle (BNF Fr. 22971), c.1480-1485

Adoration of the Magi, Legenda aurea (BNF Fr. 244, fol. 39v), c. 1480-1490

Animals, Livre des proprietez des choses (British Library Royal 15 E III, fol. 200), 1482

The battle of Manisa, Romuleon (BNF Fr. 364, fol. 232r), c. 1485-1490

The Magi, book of hours (PML M.7, fol. 21r), c. 1490-1500

David pacified by Abigail, Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52, fol. 276v), c. 1500-1510

A camel in a bas-de-page under the Adoration of the Magi, book of hours (PML M.646, fol. 45v), c. 1510

Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian I  (V&A Museum 13079:21, 13079:23). Germany - ca. 1516-19

A camel, Praeparatio ad missam pontificalem (PML H.6, fol. 17r), 1520

A goat and a camel, the Tudor Pattern Book (Ashmole 1504, fol. 32r), c. 1520-1530

Allegory of temperance, Fior di virtù (BNF Fr. 1877 fol. 63r), 1530

The pilgrim on a camel, Account of Arnolf Van Harff's travels in 1496-1499 (Bodl. 972, fol. 80r), 1554

Camels 22 and 23, Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum by Conrad Gesner, 1560 

A stained glass panel (V&A 2211-1855) probably displayed in the hall of the Guild of the Camel in Zurich, 1572

L'Asie (V&A Museum 19338). Germany - 1575

Engraving (V&A Museum E.2522-1913). Germany - 1582 

Acht Stuck Zum Verzeichnen (V&A Museum E.4246-1910). Italy - 1592

Ruhende Kamelkaravane (366:180-82r), Türkisches Manierenbuch (UniKassel Versitat 4° Ms. hist. 31.) 1595

Capitano degli arabi di barberia e giraffa by Jacopo Ligozzi (Private collection). Late 16th C.

Cover (Victoria & Albert Museum T.53-1926). England - first quarter of 17th C.

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