List of illuminated manuscripts

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Book of hours, Paris c. 1410. Miniature of the Annunciation, with the start of Matins in the Little Office, the beginning of the texts after the calendar in the usual arrangement.

This is a list of illuminated manuscripts.

Contents

[edit] 2nd century

[edit] 3rd century

[edit] 4th century

[edit] 5th century

[edit] Biblical Texts

[edit] Virgil

[edit] Homer

[edit] Herbal

[edit] Unknown

[edit] 6th century

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Genesis

[edit] Bible

[edit] Pentateuch

[edit] Dioscurides

[edit] Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum

[edit] Detached Lists

[edit] 7th century

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Orosius

[edit] Jerome

[edit] Miscellany

[edit] Dioscurides

[edit] Detached Leaves

  • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 12190 (Carpet Page)

[edit] Gregory of Tours

[edit] Gregory the Great

[edit] Origen

[edit] 8th century

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Apocalypse manuscripts

[edit] Boethius

[edit] Isidore of Seville

[edit] Bede

[edit] Cassiodorus

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Pope Gregory I

[edit] Liturgical manuscripts

  • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9427 (Lectionary)
  • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 12048 (Sacramentary)

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Césaire d'Arles

[edit] Collectio canonum

[edit] Glossaries

[edit] Prayer Book

[edit] 9th century

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Job and Ezra

[edit] Prayerbooks

[edit] Liturgical Books

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Physiologus

[edit] Cicero

[edit] Germanicus

[edit] Agrimensores

[edit] Theodore of Mopsuestia

[edit] Terence

[edit] Beatus manuscripts

[edit] Hrabanus Maurus

[edit] Canon Law

[edit] 10th century

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Bibles

[edit] New Testament

[edit] Book of Joshua

  • Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431 (Joshua Roll)

[edit] The first book of Maccabees

  • Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, PER F 17

[edit] Bede

[edit] Beatus Manuscripts

[edit] Liturgical Manuscripts

[edit] Pope Gregory I

[edit] Dioscurides

[edit] Miscellanies

  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Library, MS 448 (Miscellany)
  • London, British Library, Add. MS 24199 (Miscellany)
  • London, British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D VI (Miscellany)
  • London, British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI (Poetic miscellany)

[edit] Tironian Lexicon

[edit] Orosius

[edit] Gregory of Nazianzus

[edit] Sedulius

[edit] Monastic rules

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Cresconius

[edit] John Chrysostom

[edit] Pseudo-Apuleius

[edit] Canon law

[edit] Isidore of Seville

[edit] Aldhelm

[edit] Legal texts

[edit] Biblical commentary

[edit] Medical texts

[edit] 11th century

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Psalters

[edit] New Testament

[edit] Apocalypse manuscripts

[edit] Beatus manuscripts

[edit] Liturgical manuscripts

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Pope Gregory I

[edit] St. Augustine

[edit] Bibles

[edit] St. Jerome

[edit] Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel

[edit] St. Ildefonsus

[edit] Prayer books

[edit] Oppian

[edit] Hagiography

  • Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS II. I. 412 (Passionary)

[edit] 12th century

[edit] Bestiaries and Aviaries

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Octateuchs

[edit] Liturgical manuscripts

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Aratus of Soli

[edit] Peter Lombard

[edit] Zacharias Chrysopolitanus

[edit] Jerome

[edit] Augustine

[edit] Historical works

[edit] Berengaudus

[edit] Other Biblical texts

[edit] Pope Gregory I

[edit] Simon Metaphrastes

[edit] Bede

[edit] New Testament

[edit] Heliand

[edit] Cartularies

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Origen

[edit] James of Kokkinobaphos

[edit] Beatus manuscripts

[edit] Book of Antidotes

[edit] 13th century

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Bible Moralisée

[edit] Picture Bibles

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Apocalypse manuscripts

[edit] Beatus manuscripts

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Psalter and Hours

[edit] Books of Hours

[edit] Litugical manuscripts

[edit] Bestiaries and Aviaries

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Joannitius

[edit] Thomas Aquinas

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Hugh of St. Cher

[edit] Fechtbücher

[edit] Gratian

[edit] Chronicles

[edit] Giles de Paris

[edit] Song Collections

[edit] Raymond of Peñafort

[edit] Ptolemy

[edit] Peter Lombard

[edit] Martin of Opava

[edit] St. Jerome

[edit] Romances

[edit] Eddas

[edit] Genealogy

[edit] Moses ben Avraham Avinu

[edit] Avicenna

[edit] Obituary rolls

[edit] Lucas de Gail

[edit] Pliny the Elder

[edit] Justinian

[edit] Al-Mubashshir

[edit] Dioscurides

[edit] Ahmad ibn al-Husain ibn Ahnaf

[edit] Abu Muhammed al-Hariri

[edit] Frederick II

[edit] 14th century

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Books of Hours

[edit] Liturgical manuscripts

[edit] Bestiaries

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Bible Historiales

[edit] Bible Moralisée

[edit] Biblical picture books

[edit] New Testament

[edit] Apocalypse manuscripts

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Romances

[edit] Dante

[edit] Aristotle

[edit] Boccaccio

[edit] Petrarch

[edit] Legal manuscripts

[edit] Mirrors

[edit] Literary compilations

[edit] Seneca

  • London, British Library, Add. MS 11987 (Seneca)

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Chronicles

[edit] Guillaume de Machaut

[edit] Livy

[edit] Sagas

[edit] Guillaume Durand

[edit] Music manuscripts

[edit] Prayerbooks

[edit] Jacob van Maerlant

[edit] Augustine

[edit] Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

[edit] Miscellany

  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 E 5 (Miscellany)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS KA 24 (Miscellany)
  • The Evergreen State College, Holly Rare Book Room, The Book of Malbourne, MS JR 193 (Miscellany)

[edit] Sermons

[edit] Gautier de Coinsi

[edit] Johannes Januensis

[edit] Hippocrates

[edit] Military treatises

[edit] Cartularies

[edit] Durand de Mende

[edit] Calendar

[edit] Atlases

[edit] Valerius Maximus

[edit] 15th century

[edit] Books of Hours

[edit] Book of Hours and Prayer Book

[edit] Prayer Books

  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, KA 31 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 71 H 56 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 71 H 64 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 74 G 1 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 15 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 130 E 14 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 130 E 17 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 133 D 10 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 133 F 3 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 133 F 6 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 133 F 9 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 135 E 19 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 1 (Prayer Book)
  • The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 F 22 (Prayer Book)

[edit] Liturgical manuscripts

[edit] Pentateuchs

[edit] Bibles

[edit] Bible Historiales

[edit] Chaucer

[edit] Psalters

[edit] Miscellanies

[edit] Welsh

[edit] Cicero

[edit] Apocalypse manuscripts

[edit] Chronicles

[edit] Albertus Magnus

[edit] Quintilian

  • Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS 46. 13 (Quintilian)

[edit] Livy

[edit] Coluccio

  • Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Strozzi. 36 (Coluccio)

[edit] Eusebius of Caesarea

[edit] Duns Scotus

[edit] Julius Caesar

  • London, British Library, Add. MS 16982 (Caesar)

[edit] John Mandeville

[edit] Virgil

[edit] Romances

[edit] Fechtbücher

  • Fiore dei Liberi, Fior di Battaglia
    • New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.383
    • Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS LUDWIG XV 13
    • Italy, Pisani-Dossi collection, Pisani-Dossi MS (Flos Duellatorum)
    • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MSS LATIN 11269
  • Augsburg, University Library, I.6.4.2 (Codex Wallerstein)
  • Krajow, Biblioteka Jagiellonski (Gladiatoria)
  • ?, Bibliotheca dell'Academica Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Cod. 1449 (Cod. 44 A 8)

[edit] Chani da Castello

[edit] St. Benedict

[edit] Roman satires

[edit] Hagiography

[edit] Ovid, trans. Octavien de Saint Gelais

[edit] Alexandria

[edit] Gospel Books

  • Moscow, Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka, (Khitrovo Gospel)
  • Athens, Greece, Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados, Codex 2603 (Gospel Book)

[edit] Philostratos

[edit] Music Manuscripts

[edit] Aurora consurgens

  • Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 6
  • Zurich Zentralbibliothek, MS. Rhenoviensis 172
  • Leiden, MS. Vossiani Chemici F. 29
  • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Parisinus Latinus 14006
  • Prague, Universitni Knihovna, MS. VI. Fd. 26
  • Prague, Chapitre Métropolitain, MS. 1663. O. LXXIX
  • Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS. Germ. qu. 848

[edit] St. Augustine

[edit] Johannes von Tepl

[edit] Dante

[edit] Pseudo-Lull

[edit] Suetonius

[edit] Johannes de Deo

[edit] De sphera

  • Modena, Biblioteca Estense, α. 2. 14 (Lat. 209) (De sphera)

[edit] Engineering

[edit] Vexillology

[edit] 16th century

[edit] Books of Hours

[edit] Litugical manuscripts

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard College, Houghton Library, pfms. Lat. 186 (Graduall)

[edit] Prayerbooks

[edit] Law codes

[edit] Traicte de Peyne

[edit] Geography

  • __________ early sixteenth-century to Niccolaus Germanus' manuscript codes Parisinus Latinus 4801
  • _________BNF_______Codex Latinus Parisinus 4802, which has Jacopo del Massaio's 1428 maps illustrating Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia's 1408-9 Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.
  • Sophia, Bulgaria, Narodna Biblioteka Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii, OR 3198, fol. 250v-251r (Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Idrîsî, Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands (Book of Roger))

[edit] Alchemy

[edit] Gospel Books

[edit] Book of unknown contents

  • New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book Library, MS 408 (Voynich manuscript)

[edit] Diatessaron

[edit] 17th century

[edit] Ardašīr Book

[edit] Paisios Hagiopostolites

[edit] Slujebnicul Arhieresc al Mitropolitului Stefan al Ungrovlahiei

  • Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR, ms. ROM. 1790; sec. XVII <1661, Tara Romaneasca; Paper, 114 f.280/190 mm.. Text with black and red ink. Illuminated, majuscule, frontispicii in colour and gold)
  • Estera Hebrew Meghi'lat Esther (Estera).
  • Bucharest, National Academy Library (Ester - BAR ms. oriental 405, 1673 Moldova, pergament, roll 1750/173 mm. Ebraic text aschenaz with black ink. Flowered frames and anthropomorphic decorations in red, green, blue and yellow.)

[edit] Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

  • Rome, Italy; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Castro Pretorio). Dipartimento Manoscritti Antichi e Rari. Fondo Vittorio Emmanuele 307 (Vaticinia de Futuri Christi Vicarii ad Cesarem Filium; 1629. 82 pages sewed as a codex. Brought by Cèzar de Nostre-Dame to cardinal Maffeo Barberini) It comprises 80 drawings and/or watercolored images that some book authors link to Catholic Popes in the future. There are several images with probable astrological (astronomical dating) that are very cryptic. Only ten images are commented by handwriting in Latin (seem added by a later interpreter) the other are silent.[1]

[edit] 18th century

  • Erotocrit-ul from Vincenzo Cornaro,
  • Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR ms ROM. 3514; 1787 Tara Romaneasca; 219 f.; 275/195 mm. Text with black ink. Titles and initiales with red ink. Ms illuminated from Petrache logofatul)

[edit] 19th century

  • Book of kings
  • Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR, Ms. oriental nr.333, Ferdousi; Sah-name "Cartea regilor- Book of kings", sec. XIX, paper; 573 f.; 360/220 mm. ta'lik writing. Text on patru four columns in red frame. The manuscript has 77 de miniatures with hunting scenes, fighting scenes or regal palace interiors. The manuscript was Gh. Valentin Bibescu collection)
  • Illuminated Books and Prophecies by William Blake

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Books

  • Bologna, Giulia. Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book before Gutenberg. New York: Crescent Books, 1995.
  • Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.
  • De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Boston: David R. Godine, 1986.
  • Nordenfalk, Carl. Cetic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book illumination in the British Isles 600-800. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
  • Temple, Elzbieta. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: 900 - 1066. London; Harvey Miller, 1976.
  • Weitzmann, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christin Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
  • Williams, John, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination New York: George Braziller, 1977.
  • Williams, John. The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, Volume 1, Introduction. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1994.
  • Papadaki-Oekland,Stella,"Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job",ISBN 2-503-53232-2, [7]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Lauterbach, Kreg, et al. Nostradamus lost book. TV-documentary about Nostradamus Vaticinia codex manuscript that was first aired in USA in October 2007, and then worldwide by History Channel.

[edit] External links

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