14C-16C Courtyards & Gameparks - Ladies on Horseback Hunting, Fighting, Celebrating

1338 Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati) (c. 1290-1348) Lady & Her Dog

 La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel, 1450-80

Les anciennes Histoires des Romains  gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 64, fol. 73r.

 Hunt with Hawks from the Hours of Duke de Berry, detail 1412-16

 Life of  Saint Jacques de Compostelle, 1386

Joan of Arc depicted on horseback, 1505 manuscript.

 Penthesilea as one of the Nine Female Worthies, 1460-70

  Roman du Chevalier, Tristan and Isolde, 15C.

Royal, Military and Court Costumes from the time of James I Folger Shakespeare Library

  Bodleian Alexander manuscript (MS Bodl. 264)

Bodleian, MS. Douce 195, detail of f. 109v Watched by Pity, Frankness, a woman on horseback, attacks the male Danger (Reserve) with lance Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Le roman de la rose. France, 15C

Saint Helena & Heraclius taking the Holy Cross to Jerusalem by Miguel Ximenes, 1481

Table Ronde 13C Universitätsbibliothek Bonn and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.  Folio 489, ii F.

Celebrating the month of May from the Breviarium Grimani by Gerard Horenbout, Alexander & Simon Bening (1483-1561)  c. 1510

 Celebrating The Month of May from the Hours of Duke de Berry 1412-16

Illustration from a Book of Poetry by Christine de Pisan,14th c. French School

Barbara of Celje from Manuscript  Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser, c. 1405

 Venus and her children, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1475-1485

Lady probably hunting with hawks, mid 15C The British Museum playing cards printed by the German Monogrammist PW

 Lady on Horse by the German Monogrammist PW mid 15C The British Museum 

Lady on horse depicted on playing cards printed by the German Monogrammist PW mid 15C The British Museum