# The Travels of the Knight, John Mandeville [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Bohemian]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Manuscript \(Additional Ms. 24189\) ## Commentary The Travels of the Knight, John Mandeville 1400-10 Manuscript \(Additional Ms. 24189\) British Library, London This parchment codex contains no text, but a series of 28 full-page miniatures \(tinted grisaille drawings on green parchment\) illustrating the Voyage d'outre mer, attributed to Sir John Mandeville \(active c. 1357\). The miniaturist is called the Master of the Mandeville Travels. The picture shows the lowwer part of the drawing on folio 16. It shows glass-blowing: the glass, having been heated in the furnace which a boy is stoking on the right, is then blown and spun. Behind the furnace the master inspects the finished pots. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary]() - [Antithesis Christi et Antichristi]() - [Antithesis Christi et Antichristi]() - [Codex Gigas]() - [Codex Gigas]() - [Codex Vyšehradensis]() - [Comments on Ptolemy]() - [Golden Bull of Charles IV]() - [Gradual of Vladislaus II]() - [Gradual of Vladislaus II]() - [Illustrations for Mandeville's Travels]() - [Johannes of Troppau: Evangeliary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()