User:Dsmdgold/List of Illuminated Manuscripts

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Criteria for inclusion on list.

The manuscript must be illuminated. Illuminated is defined as any manuscript that is illustrated or sufficiently decorated. Any illustration at all will qualify a manuscript, however manuscripts that are decorated solely through pen-work initials do not qualify. Marginal doodles, especially those added after the production of the manuscript, will not usually make an otherwise undecorated or unillustrated manuscript illuminated.

The manuscript must be "notable". To be considered notable, a manuscript must be included in at least one of the following: a general survey of illuminated manuscripts, or a survey of manuscripts from specific era and/or region (e.g Celtic nanuscripts, Italian Renaissance manuscripts), or survey of manuscript of a particular type (e.g. Books of Hours) or survey of manuscripts held by a particular institution or set of institutions (note, this does not include exhaustive catalogs), or be a single manuscript with at least one monograph dedicated to it, or which has had a print facsimile published of it (digital only facsimiles published on the internet, do not count.)

List of illuminated manuscripts

Late Antique[edit]

Papyrus Fragments[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Romance Papyrus Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294 2nd Century Unknown Fragment of unknown Hellenistic romance
Heracles Papyrus Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331 3rd Century Unkonwn Fragment of unknown Greek poem on the Labors of Heracles
Johnson Papyrus London, Wellcome Library, MS 5753 5th Century Unknown Fragment of unknown Greek Herbal
Charioteer Papyrus London, Egypt Exploration Society, s.n. 5th Century Unknown Illustration for unknown text

Codices[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Vergilius Vaticanus Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225) 5th Century Rome Fragments of the Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil [1][2]
Vergilius Romanus Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867 5th Century Rome Georgics, Aeneid and Eclogues of Virgil. [1][2]
Ambrosian Iliad Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf 5th Century Unknown Illustrations cut from codex of the Iliad of Homer. [1]
Vienna Dioscurides Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1. 6th Century Constantinople Dioscurides: De Materia Medica plus other texts. [1][2]

Early Christian[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Vienna Genesis Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. theol. gr. 31 6th Century Syria Book of Genesis. [1]
Rossano Gospels Rossano, Cathedral, Archiepiscopal Treasury, s. n. 6th Century Italy Gospels of Matthew and Mark [1]
Ashburnham Pentateuch Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334 6th Century Unknown Fragmentary Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers (Missing the Book of Deuteronomy). [1]

Merovingian[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Insular[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Book of Durrow Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 57 (MS A. 4. 5) 7th Century Ireland Gospel Book [1]
Lindisfarne Gospels London, British Library, MS Cotton, Nero D. IV 8th Century Northumbria, probably Lindisfarne Gospel Book[1]
Stockholm Codex Aureus Stockholm, Royal Library, MS A. 135 8th Century Southumbria, probably Canterbury Gospel Book [1]
Book of Kells Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 58(A. I. 6 c. 800 Ireland, possibly Iona Gospel Book [1]

Anglo-Saxon[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Carolingian[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Godescalc Evangelistary Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1203 781-783 Aachen Evangeliary [1]
Vienna Coronation Gospels Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18 Shortly before 800 Aachen Gospel Book[1]
Codex Aureus of Lorsch Alba-Iulia, Romania, Batthyaneum Library, s.n.; Vatican library, Pal. lat. 50; Cover in London, British Library Between 778 and 820 Aachen or Lorsch Gospel Book [1]
Utrecht Psalter Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS Bibl. Rhenotraiectinae I Nr 32. c. 825 Rheims Psalter [1]
Leiden Aratea Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 79. c. 816 Lorraine Astronomical treatise by Germanicus, based on the Phenomena of Aratus [1]
Gospels of St. Medard de Soissons Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 8850 Before 827 Aachen Gospel Book [1]
First Bible of Charles the Bald Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 1 845 Tours Bible [1]
Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14000 870 St Denis? Gospel Book [1]
Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura Rome, St. Paul's Outside the Walls, s.n. (kept in the Vatican Library) 870-875 Rheims Bible [1]

Early Spanish[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Morgan Beatus New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 644 10th century San Miguel de Escalada Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse [1]
Tábara Beatus Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Cod. 1097B 10th century San Salvador de Tábara Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse [1]
Escorial Beatus San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5 10th century San Millán de la Cogolla Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse [1]

Ottonian[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Gospels of Otto III Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453 After 997 Reichenau Abbey Gospel Book [1]
Bamberg Apocalypse Bamberg, Bamberg State Library, Msc.Bibl.140 1000-1020 Reichenau Abbey Book of Revelations and Evangeliary [1]
Pericopes of Henry II Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452 1002-1020 Reichenau Abbey Evangeliary [1]
Salzburg Pericopes Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 15713 c. 1020 St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg Evangeliary [1]
Codex Aureus of Echternach Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, MS 156142 1030-1050 Abbey of Echternach Gospel Book [1]
Golden Gospels of Henry III San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Cod. Vitrinas 17 1043-1046 Abbey of Echternach Gospel Book [1]

Romanesque[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Winchester Bible Winchester, Cathedral Library, MS 17 1160-1175 Winchester Bible [1]
Gospels of Henry the Lion Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelff. 105 Noviss 2 and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 30055 1175-1188 Helmarshausen Abbey Gospel Book [1]

Gothic[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Ingeborg Psalter Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 9 c. 1095 Northern France Psalter [1]
Berthold Sacramentary New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 710 1200-1252 Weingarten Abbey Sacramentary [1]
Ashmole Bestiary Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1511 c. 1210 North Midlands Bestiary [1]
Vienna Bible Moralisée Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Vind. 2554 1220-1230 Champagne or Paris Bible Moralisée [1]
Psalter of Blanche of Castille Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS lat. 1186 c. 1230 Northern Italy Romance[1]
The Romance of Guiron le Courtois Paris, Louvre, s.n. c. 1215-1230 Paris Psalter [3]

Renaissance[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Byzantine[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Joshua Roll Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431 10th century Constantinople Book of Joshua

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Paris Psalter Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS gr. 139 10th century Constantinople Psalter [1]

Ethiopian[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Armenian[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Russian[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Islamic[edit]

Arabic[edit]

Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents
Kitab al-Diryaq Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Arabe 2964 1199 Northern Iraq Pseudo-Galen: Kitab al-Diryaq [1]
al-Mubashshi Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 3206 early 13th century Syria al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik: Selected Maxims and Aphorisms [1]
Kitab al-Baitara Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 2115 1210 Baghdad Kitab al-Baitara [1]
Dioscurides Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 2127 1229 Mesopotamia Dioscurides: De Materia Medica [1]

Mughal[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Ottoman[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Persian[edit]

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay Walther and Wolf, 2001
  2. ^ a b c Bologna,1995
  3. ^ Thomas, 1979

Sources[edit]

  • Bologna, Guilia (1995). Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg. New York: Crescent Books.
  • Thomas, Walther (1979). The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0923-4.
  • Walther, Ingo F.; Norbert Wolf (2001). Codices Illustres: The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts, 400 to 1600. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-5852-8.
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