List of illuminated manuscripts
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Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations...
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- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Cod. lat. fol. 416, and Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3256 (Vergilius AugusteusVergilius AugusteusThe Vergilius Augusteus is a manuscript from late antiquity, containing the works of the Roman author Virgil, written probably around the 4th century. There are two other collections of Virgil manuscripts, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus...
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Biblical TextsBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Cod. theol. lat. fol. 485 (Quedlinburg Itala fragmentQuedlinburg Itala fragmentThe Quedlinburg Itala fragment is a fragment of six folios from a large 5th century illuminated manuscript of an Old Latin translation of the Bible...
) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, MS Royal 1. D. V-VIII (Codex AlexandrinusCodex AlexandrinusThe Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible,The Greek Bible in this context refers to the Bible used by Greek-speaking Christians who lived in Egypt and elsewhere during the early history of Christianity...
) - Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, 1 B 18 (Old Testament fragmentOld Testament fragment (Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, 1 B 18)Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, MS 1 B 18 is a fragment of 5th century manuscript of the Old Testament written in uncials in the Sahidic dialect of the Coptic language. The manuscript has only 8 surviving folios and includes the text from Job 40:8 to Proverbs 3:19.On folio 4 verso there...
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VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
- Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225 (Vergilius VaticanusVergilius VaticanusThe Vergilius Vaticanus is a manuscript containing fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics made in Rome in about 400. It is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid and is the oldest and one of only three illustrated manuscript of classical literature...
) - Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867 (Vergilius RomanusVergilius RomanusThe Vergilius Romanus , also known as the Roman Vergil, is a 5th century illuminated manuscript of the works of Virgil. It contains the Aeneid, the Georgics, and some of the Eclogues. It is one of the oldest and most important Vergilian manuscripts. It is 332 by 323 mm with 309 vellum folios...
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Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- BresciaBresciaBrescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...
, Biblioteca Civica Queriniana, s.n. (Codex BrixianusCodex BrixianusThe Codex Brixianus , designated by f, is a 6th century Latin Gospel Book which was probably produced in Italy. The manuscript contains 419 folios. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink, is a version of the old Latin translation which seems to have been a source for the Gothic...
) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, CambridgeCorpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, MS 286 (St. Augustine GospelsSt. Augustine GospelsThe St Augustine Gospels is an illuminated Gospel Book which dates from the 6th century. It was made in Italy and has been in England since fairly soon after its creation; by the 16th century, it had probably already been at Canterbury for almost a thousand years...
) - FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Biblioteca Mediceo Lauenziana, MS Plut. I, 56 (Rabula GospelsRabula GospelsThe Rabbula Gospels, or Rabula Gospels, is a 6th century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book...
) - Fulda monasteryFulda monasteryThe monastery of Fulda was a Benedictine abbey in Fulda, in the present-day German state of Hesse. It was founded in 12 March, 744 by Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, and became an eminent center of learning with a renowned scriptorium, and the predecessor of the Fulda...
, Landesbibliothek, Cod. Bonifatianus 1 (Codex FuldensisCodex FuldensisThe Codex Fuldensis, designated by F, is a New Testament manuscript based on the Latin Vulgate made between 541 and 546. The codex is considered the second most important witness to the Vulgate text; and is also the oldest complete manuscript witness to the order of the Diatessaron. It is an...
) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, HarleyRobert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and MortimerRobert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer KG was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as First Lord of the Treasury, effectively Queen...
1775 (6th century Italian Vulgate Gospel Book6th century Italian Gospel Book (British Library, Harley 1775)British Library, Harley 1775 is an illuminated Gospel Book produced in Italy during the last quarter of the 6th century. The text is in Latin and is a mixture of the Vulgate and Old Latin translations. This text is called "source Z" in critical studies of the Latin New Testament.It is written in an...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 1286 (Sinope GospelsSinope GospelsThe Sinope Gospels, designated by O or 023 , ε 21 , also known as the Codex Sinopensis, is a fragment of a 6th century illuminated Greek Gospel Book. Along with the Rossano Gospels, the Sinope Gospels has been dated, on the basis of the style of the miniatures, to the mid-6th century...
) - RossanoRossanoRossano is a town and comune in Southern Italy, in the province of Cosenza . The city is situated on an eminence c. 3. km from the Gulf of Taranto. The town is known for its marble and alabaster quarries....
, Cathedral, Archiepiscopal Treasury, s. n. (Rossano GospelsRossano GospelsThe Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ , ε 18 , at the Cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire...
) - UppsalaUppsala- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
, Uppsala University LibraryUppsala UniversityUppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...
(Codex ArgenteusCodex ArgenteusThe Codex Argenteus, "Silver Book", is a 6th century manuscript, originally containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language. Of the original 336 folios, 188—including the Speyer fragment discovered in 1970—have been preserved, containing the...
) - WürzburgWürzburgWürzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....
, UniverstätsbibliothekUniversity of WürzburgThe University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...
, Cod. M. p. th. F. 68 (Burchard Gospels)
Genesis
- London, British Library, MS CottonCotton libraryThe Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...
OthoOthoOtho , was Roman Emperor for three months, from 15 January to 16 April 69. He was the second emperor of the Year of the four emperors.- Birth and lineage :...
B. VI (Cotton GenesisCotton GenesisThe Cotton Genesis is a 4th- or 5th-century Greek Illuminated manuscript copy of the Book of Genesis. It was a luxury manuscript with many miniatures. It is one of the oldest illustrated biblical codices to survive to the modern period...
) - ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. theol. gr. 31 (Vienna GenesisVienna GenesisThe Vienna Genesis , designated by siglum L , is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th Century. It is the oldest well-preserved, surviving, illustrated biblical codex.- Description :The text is a fragment of the Book of Genesis in the Greek Septuagint...
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BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
- DurhamDurhamDurham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Cathedral LibraryDurham CathedralThe Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, MS B. IV. 6 (Bible fragment)
Pentateuch
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334 (Ashburnham PentateuchAshburnham PentateuchThe Ashburnham Pentateuch is a late 6th or early 7th century Latin illuminated manuscript of the Pentateuch...
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Dioscurides
- Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1. (Vienna DioscuridesVienna DioscuridesThe Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text...
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Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum
- WolfenbüttelWolfenbüttelWolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Oker river about 13 kilometres south of Brunswick. It is the seat of the District of Wolfenbüttel and of the bishop of the Protestant Lutheran State Church of Brunswick...
, Herzog August BibliothekHerzog August BibliothekThe Herzog August Library , in Wolfenbüttel, , known also as Bibliotheca Augusta, it has an international importance for its collection from the Middle Ages and Early modern Europe. The library is overseen by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture...
, Cod. Guelff. 36.23 Augusteus 2 (Corpus Agrimensorum RomanorumCorpus Agrimensorum Romanorum (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelff. 36.23 Augusteus 2)The Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, a Roman treatise on land surveying is preserved in the manuscript known as Codex Guelfferbytanus 36.23 Augusteus 2 – a 5th or 6th century illuminated manuscript. It is one of the few surviving illustrated, non-literary or non-religious manuscripts from late...
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Detached Lists
- YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M2374 (four lists of the Echmiadzin GospelEchmiadzin GospelThe Echmiadzin Gospels is a 10th century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery of Bgheno-Noravank in Syunik.- The book :...
http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_miniatures/m2374.htm)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- Dublin, Trinity College LibraryTrinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, MS 55 (Codex Usserianus PrimusCodex Usserianus PrimusCodex Usserianus Primus is an early 7th century Old Latin Gospel Book. It is dated palaeographically to the 6th or 7th century. It is designated by r .- Description :...
(Ussher Gospels)) - Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5. (MS 57) (Book of DurrowBook of DurrowThe Book of Durrow is a 7th-century illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Insular style. It was probably created between 650 and 700, in Northumbria in Northern England, where Lindisfarne or Durham would be the likely candidates, or on the island of Iona in the Scottish Inner Hebrides...
) - DurhamDurhamDurham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Cathedral LibraryDurham CathedralThe Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, MSS A. II. 10 ff. 2-5, 338-8a, C. III. 13, ff. 192-5, and C. III. 20, ff. 1, 2 (Insular Gospel Book Fragment) - Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 17, 2-102 and CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Magdalene CollegeMagdalene College, CambridgeMagdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...
, PepysianPepys LibraryThe Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is the personal library collected by Samuel Pepys which he bequeathed to the college following his death in 1703....
MS 2981 (19) (Durham GospelsDurham GospelsThe Durham Gospels is a very incomplete late 7th century insular Gospel Book, now kept in the Durham Cathedral Library . A single folio of this manuscript is now in Magdalene College, Cambridge . Only two of the fully decorated pages survive: a Crucifixion and the initial to John, and both of...
) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, MS Add. 5111, Canon Tables from Byzantine Gospel Book (London Canon TablesLondon Canon TablesThe London Canon Tables is a Byzantine illuminated Gospel Book fragment on vellum from the 6th or 7th century. It was possibly made in Constantinople. The fragment consists of two folios of two illuminated canon tables – of unusual construction – set beneath an ornamental arcade and the Letter by...
) - MonzaMonzaMonza is a city and comune on the river Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza. It is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.On June...
, Cathedral TreasuryMonza CathedralThe Duomo of Monza often known in English as Monza Cathedral is the main religious building of Monza, near Milan, in northern Italy...
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BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatinus 1 (Codex AmiatinusCodex AmiatinusThe Codex Amiatinus, designated by siglum A, is the earliest surviving manuscript of the nearly complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate version, and is considered to be the most accurate copy of St. Jerome's text. It is missing the Book of Baruch. It was produced in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341 (Syriac Bible of ParisSyriac Bible of ParisThe Syriac Bible of Paris is an illuminated Bible written in Syriac. It dates to 6th or 7th century. It is believed to have been made in northern Mesopotamia. The manuscript has 246 extant folios. Large sections of text and the accompanying illustrations are missing. The folios are 312 by 230 mm...
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Orosius
- MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Biblioteca AmbrosianaBiblioteca AmbrosianaThe Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo , whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books...
, MS D. 23. sup. (Ambrosiana Orosius)
Miscellany
- ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. lat. 847 (Rufinus of Aquileia, Treatise on the Blessings of the Patriarchs)
Dioscurides
- NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, Biblioteca NazionaleBiblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele IIIThe Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III is a national library of Italy. It occupies the eastern wing of the 18th century Palazzo Reale in Naples, at 1 Piazza del Plebiscito, and has entrances from piazza Trieste e Trento...
, Cod. Gr. 1 (Naples DioscuridesNaples DioscuridesThe Naples Dioscurides in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples, is an early 7th-century Greek herbal. It is based on the De Materia Medica by the 1st century Greek military physician Dioscorides. The Naples Dioscurides contains the descriptions of plants and their medicinal uses. Unlike De Materia...
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Detached Leaves
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 12190 (Carpet Page)
Gregory of ToursGregory of ToursSaint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather...
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 17655 (Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum)
Gregory the Great
- Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 504 (Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care)
OrigenOrigenOrigen , or Origen Adamantius, 184/5–253/4, was an early Christian Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, in part because he believed in the pre-existence of souls...
- London, British Library, Burney 340 (Origen, Homiliae in numeri)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- Alba-Iulia, RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Batthyaneum Library, s.n.; Vatican libraryVatican LibraryThe Vatican Library is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts. Formally established in 1475, though in fact much older, it has 75,000 codices from...
, Pal. lat. 50; Cover in London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
(Codex Aureus of LorschCodex Aureus of LorschThe Codex Aureus of Lorsch or Lorsch Gospels is an illuminated Gospel Book written between 778 and 820, roughly coinciding with the period of Charlemagne's rule over the Frankish Empire.It was first recorded in Lorsch Abbey , for which it was presumably written, and...
) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, CambridgeCorpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp. 245–316) and London, British Library, MS CottonCotton libraryThe Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...
OthoOthoOtho , was Roman Emperor for three months, from 15 January to 16 April 69. He was the second emperor of the Year of the four emperors.- Birth and lineage :...
C. V (Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment) - Dublin, Trinity College LibraryTrinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, MS A. I. (58) (Book of KellsBook of KellsThe Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier...
) - Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 59 (Book of DimmaBook of Dimmathumb|left|The 12th century case of the Book of Dimma.The Book of Dimma is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Cronan in the County Tipperary, Ireland. In addition to the four Gospels, in between the Gospels of Luke and John, it has an...
) - Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 60 (Book of MullingBook of MullingThe Book of Mulling or less commonly, Book of Moling , is an Irish pocket Gospel Book from the late 8th century. The text collection includes the four Gospels, a liturgical service which includes the "Apostles' Creed", and in the colophon, a supposed plan of St...
) - DurhamDurhamDurham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Cathedral LibraryDurham CathedralThe Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, MSS A. II. 16, ff. 1-23, 34-86, 102 and Cambridge, Magdalene CollegeMagdalene College, CambridgeMagdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...
Pepysian MS 2981 (18) (Insular Gospel Book Fragment) - Freiburg im BreisgauFreiburgFreiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
, Universitatbibliothek, Cod. 702 (Freiburg Gospel Book Fragment) - GothaGotha (town)Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...
, Forschungsbibliothek, Cod. Memb I. 18 (Gotha Gospel Book) - Harburg-Bayern, Schloss Harburg, Fürst, Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek Cod. I. 2. 4. 2 (Maihingen Gospels)
- HerefordHerefordHereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...
, Cathedral LibraryHereford CathedralThe current Hereford Cathedral, located at Hereford in England, dates from 1079. Its most famous treasure is Mappa Mundi, a mediæval map of the world dating from the 13th century. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.-Origins:...
, MS P. I. 2 (Hereford GospelsHereford GospelsThe Hereford Gospels is an 8th century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book in insular script minuscule script, with large illuminated initials in the Insular style....
) - LichfieldLichfieldLichfield is a cathedral city, civil parish and district in Staffordshire, England. One of eight civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated roughly north of Birmingham...
, Cathedral LibraryLichfield CathedralLichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It is the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. The Diocese of Lichfield covers all of Staffordshire, much of Shropshire and part of the Black Country and West Midlands...
, (Lichfield GospelsLichfield GospelsThe Lichfield Gospels is an eighth century Insular Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. There are 236 surviving folios, eight of which are illuminated. Another four contain framed text...
(Book of St. Chad))) - London, British Library, Add. MS 5463 (Codex BeneventanusCodex BeneventanusThe Codex Beneventanus is an 8th century illuminated Gospel Book. According to a subscription on folio 239 verso, the manuscript was written by a monk named Lupus for one Ato, who was probably Ato, abbot the monastery St. Vincent on the Volturno, near Benevento...
) - London, British Library, Add. MS 40618 (Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D. IV (Lindisfarne GospelsLindisfarne GospelsThe Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the British Library...
) - London, British Library, MS Royal 1. B. VII (Gospel BookGospel Book (British Library, MS Royal 1. B. VII)British Library, Royal 1. B. VII is an 8th century Anglo-Saxon illuminated Gospel Book. It is closely related to the Lindisfarne Gospels, being either copied from it or from a common model. It is not as lavishly illuminated, and the decoration shows Merovingian influence...
) - MaaseikMaaseikMaaseik is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. The city is located on the river Meuse , bordering the Netherlands. The Maaseik municipality includes the town of Maaseik and the villages of Neeroeteren and Opoeteren...
, Church of St. Catherine, Treasury, s. n. (Maaseik Gospel Book) - OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
, MS Auct. D. 2. 19 (S. C. 3946) (MacRegol Gospels (Rushworth Gospels)) - Paris, Bibliothèque de l'ArsenalBibliothèque de l'ArsenalThe Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris is one of the branches of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.-History:...
, MS 599 (Saint-Martin-des-Champs Gospels) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 281, 298 (Codex Bigotianus)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9389 (Echternach GospelsEchternach GospelsThe Echternach Gospels is an 8th-century insular Gospel Book from the library of the monastery of Echternach, Luxembourg. It is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . The manuscript was written by the same scribe that wrote the Durham Gospels.-References:* De Hamel, Christopher. A History...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1203(Godescalc EvangelistaryGodescalc EvangelistaryThe Godescalc Evangelistary or Godescalc Gospel Lectionary is an illuminated manuscript Gospel Book made by the Frankish scribe Godescalc circa 781 - 783 C.E...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1587 (Gospel Book of St. Gatian of Tours)
- St. GallSt. GallenSt. Gallen is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. The town mainly relies on the service sector for its economic...
, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 51 (St. Gall Gospel BookSt. Gall Gospel BookThe St. Gall Gospel Book is a medieval insular Gospel Book. It is now in the Abbey of St. Gall cathedral library . It has 134 folios. Amongst its illustrations are a Crucifixion, a Last Judgement, a Chi Rho monogram page, a carpet page, and Evangelist portraits....
) - Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, National Library of Russia, Cod. F. v. I. 8 (Leningrad GospelsLeningrad GospelsLeningrad Gospels This highly idiosyncratic work, an illuminated manuscript of the gospels in Hiberno-Saxon style dating from around 800AD, may have been produced in England south of the Humber. It is not to be confused with the Leningrad Codex of the Hebrew Bible....
(Saint Petersburg Gospels)) - StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Royal LibrarySwedish Royal LibraryThe National Library of Sweden is the national library of Sweden. As such it collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature in...
, MS A. 135 (Stockholm Codex AureusStockholm Codex AureusThe Stockholm Codex Aureus is an Insular Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury...
) - TrierTrierTrier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....
, Trier Cathedral Treasury, Codex 61 (Bibliotheksnummer 134) (Trier Gospels) - Trier, StaatsbibliothekStaatsbibliothekStaatsbibliothek is the German word for state library. Another term often used is Landesbibliothek. Both types of library refer to the general type of regional libraries in tradition of the States of Germany...
, Cod.22 (Ada GospelsAda GospelsThe Ada Gospels is a late eighth century or early ninth century Carolingian gospel book. The manuscript contains a dedication to Charlemagne's sister Ada, whence it gets its name. The manuscript is written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule. It measures 14.5 by 9.625 inches...
) - TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Biblioteca NazionaleTurin National University LibraryThe National University Library in Turin, Italy, is one of the country's main libraries.It was founded in 1720 as the Royal University Library by Victor Amadeus II, who unified collections from the library of the University of Turin and from the library of the Dukes of Savoy...
, MS O. IV. 20 (Gospel Book fragment) - Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Barberini Lat. 570 (Barberini GospelsBarberini GospelsThe Barberini Gospels is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript Gospel Book , assumed to be of a late eighth century origin...
) - ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1224 (Cuthbert Gospels) - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches MuseumKunsthistorisches MuseumThe Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...
, Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18 (Vienna Coronation GospelsVienna Coronation GospelsSee also Coronation Gospels for other manuscripts with the nameThe Vienna Coronation Gospels, also known as the Treasury Gospels is a late 8th Century illuminated Gospel Book...
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PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS Hamilton 553 (Salaberga Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Cotton VespasianVespasianVespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
A. I (Vespasian PsalterVespasian PsalterThe Vespasian Psalter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated Psalter produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation of any portion of the Bible. It was produced in southern England, perhaps in St...
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BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- AmiensAmiensAmiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...
, Bibliothèque Municipale, MSS 6-7,9,11-12 and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 13174. (Maurdramnus Bible) - London, British Library, MSS Add. 45025 and 37777 (Ceolfrid BibleCeolfrid BibleThe Ceolfrid Bible is a fragment of a late 7th or early 8th century Bible. It is almost certainly a portion of one of the three single-volume Bibles ordered made by Ceolfrid, Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. It is closely related to the Codex Amiatinus, which is the only surviving complete Bible of...
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Apocalypse manuscriptsApocalypseAn Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...
- Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 31, (Trier Apocalypse)
BoethiusAnicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusAnicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after...
- BambergBambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, StaatsbibliothekBamberg State LibraryThe Bamberg State Library is a combined universal, regional and research library with priority given to the humanities. Today it is housed in the New Residence, the former prince-bishop's new palace...
, Msc.Class.5 (Boethius, Arithmetica)
Isidore of SevilleIsidore of SevilleSaint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...
- BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, University LibraryUniversity of BaselThe University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country...
, MS F. III.f (Isidore, De Natura Rerum) - BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS. II. 4856 (Isidore, Etymologies)
BedeBedeBede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
- London, British Library, MS Cotton TiberiusTiberiusTiberius , was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Augustus in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian...
A. XIV (Bede, Ecclesiastical History) - London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II (Bede, Ecclesiastical HistoryBede, Ecclesiastical History (British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II)British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has...
) - Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Public Library, Cod. Q. v. I. 18 (Saint Petersburg Bede (Leningrad Bede))
Miscellanies
- London, British Library, MS Additional 43460 (Theological miscellanyTheological miscellany (British Library, MS Additional 43460)British Library, Add. MS 43460 is a theological miscellany and was produced in Italy in the late 8th century. It contains works by St. Augustine, St...
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Pope Gregory IPope Gregory IPope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
- London, British Library, MS Additional 31031 (Gregory, Moralia in Job)Gregory, Moralia in Job (British Library, MS Additional 31031)British Library, Additional MS 31031 is an 8th century illuminated copy of Pope Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job, books I - V. The codex is missing the last folio and ends in the words "et singuli tota". The manuscript is written in Merovingian script on vellum. It has 145 folios. The...
) - MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Biblioteca AmbrosianaBiblioteca AmbrosianaThe Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo , whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books...
, MS B. 159 Sup. (Gregory, Dialogues)
Liturgical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9427 (Lectionary)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 12048 (Sacramentary)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS F. 48 Sup. (Lives of the Saints and Their Teachings)
Césaire d'Arles
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, MSS 9850-0852 (Césaire d'Arles, Homilies and Commentary on the Gospels)
Collectio canonum
- The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 B 4 (Collectio canonum)
Prayer Book
- VeronaVeronaVerona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...
, Verona CathedralVerona CathedralVerona Cathedral is a church in Verona, northern Italy.It was erected after two Palaeo-Christian churches on the same site had been destroyed by an earthquake in 1117. Built in Romanesque style, the cathedral was consecrated on September 13, 1187...
, Biblioteca Capit. Cod. LXXXIX (Libellus Orationum)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- AachenAachenAachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
, Cathedral TreasuryAachen CathedralAachen Cathedral, frequently referred to as the "Imperial Cathedral" , is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen, Germany. The church is the oldest cathedral in northern Europe and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during the Middle Ages...
, s. n. (Aachen GospelsAachen GospelsThe Aachen Gospels may refer to either of two illuminated manuscript Gospel Books, more precisely known as the Aachen Coronation Gospels , a 9th century illuminated Gospel Book, or the Aachen Gospels of Otto III, made about 973 at Reichenau. The plain term "Aachen Gospels" is more liely to refer to...
) - AbbevilleAbbevilleAbbeville is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Location:Abbeville is located on the Somme River, from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and northwest of Amiens...
, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 4 (St. Riquier GospelsSt. Riquier GospelsThe St. Riquier Gospels is an illuminated Gospel Book made during the Carolingian Renaissance. It was given to Angilbert, abbot of the monastery of Saint Riquier at Centula by Charlemagne. It is a member of the Ada group of manuscripts, which includes the Ada Gospels.-References:*De Hamel,...
) - Bern, Bergerbibliothek, Cod. 348 (Gospel Book)
- Bern, Stadtbibliothek, 671 (Cornish Gospels)
- BresciaBresciaBrescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...
, Biblioteca Civica Queriniana, Cod. E. II. 9 (Gospel Book) - BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 18.723 (Xanten Gospels) - Dublin, Trinity College LibraryTrinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, MS 56 (Codex Usserianus Secundus (Garland of Howth)) - ÉpernayÉpernayÉpernay is a commune in the Marne department in northern France. Épernay is located some 130 km north-east of Paris on the main line of the Eastern railway to Strasbourg...
, Bibliothèque Municipale de Épernay, Ms. 1 (Ebbo GospelsEbbo GospelsThe Ebbo Gospels is an early Carolingian illuminated Gospel book known for an unusual, energetic style of illustration...
) - FuldaFuldaFulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...
, Landesbibliothek, Cod. Bonifatianus 3 (Cadmug Gospel Book) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, MS Add. 11848 (Carolingian Gospel BookCarolingian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 11848)British Library, Additional Manuscript 11848 is an illuminated Carolingian Latin Gospel Book produced at Tours. It contains the Vulgate translation of the four Gospels written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule with Square and Rustic Capitals and Uncials as display scripts. The manuscript has...
) - London, British Library, MS Add. 47673 (Schuttern GospelsSchuttern GospelsThe Schuttern Gospels is an early 9th century illuminated Gospel Book that was produced at Schuttern Abbey in Baden. According to a colophon on folio 206v, the manuscript was written by the deacon Liutharius, at the order of his abbot, Bertricus.- Codicology :The vellum codex has 211 folios that...
) - London, British Library, MS Egerton 609 (Breton Gospel BookBreton Gospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 609)British Library, Egerton 609 is a Breton Gospel Book from the 9th century. The manuscript contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, along with prefatory material and canon tables. The manuscript contains an interesting mix of traditions. The script is similar to the form of Carolingian minuscule...
) - London, British Library, MS Egerton 768. (Gospel BookGospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 768)London, British Library, Egerton 768 is an illuminated Gospel Book in Latin produced in Northern France during the mid-9th century. It contains the Gospels of Luke and John. The manuscript 's decoration includes lavish two page incipits which are decorated with interlace patterns for each Gospel...
) - London, British Library, MS Harley 2788 (Harley Golden GospelsHarley Golden GospelsThe Harley Golden Gospels are a set of illuminated manuscripts produced by the Carolingians c. 800 AD in Aachen Germany.As in other Codex Aureus these gospels were written entirely in gold and copies are at the British Library....
) - London, British Library, MS Royal 1. E. VI and Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional MS 16 (Royal Bible (Canterbury Gospel Book))
- MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14000 (Codex Aureus of St. EmmeramCodex Aureus of St. EmmeramThe Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram is a 9th century illuminated Gospel Book. It is named after Emmeram of Regensburg and lavishly illuminated.-History:...
) - New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 1 (Lindau Gospels) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8850 (Gospels of St. Medard de SoissonsGospels of St. Medard de SoissonsThe Gospels of St. Medard de Soissons is a 9th century illuminated manuscript and is a product of the Court School of the Carolingian Renaissance. The codex was produced before 827 when it was given to the church of St. Medard de Soissons by Louis the Pious and his wife, Judith. It remained in...
) - VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
, San LorenzoSan Lorenzo, VeniceSan Lorenzo is a church building in the sestiere of Castello of Venice, northern Italy.The church dates to the 9th century, and became attached to the neighboring Benedictine monastery. It was rebuilt in 1580-1616 to designs by Simone Sorela. The high altar was partly sculpted by Giovanni Maria da...
, cod. 1144/86 (Gospel of Queen Mlke, 862 http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_miniatures/v1144.htm) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M6200 (Lazarian Gospel, 887)
PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- London, British Library, MS Add. 37768 (Psalter of Lothaire)
- MontpellierMontpellier-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
, Bibliothèque de l'universitéUniversity of MontpellierThe University of Montpellier was a French university in Montpellier in the Languedoc-Roussillon région of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.-History:The university...
, 409 (Montpellier PsalterMontpellier PsalterThe Montpellier Psalter is one of the oldest Psalter from the Carolingian era and was made in the 8th century in the then-Bavarian Mondsee Abbey during the reign of the Agilolfings and was supposedly originally dedicated to the Bavarian...
) - Moscow, State Historical MuseumState Historical MuseumThe State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty...
, MS D. 29 (Chludov PsalterChludov PsalterChludov Psalter is an illuminated marginal Psalter made in the middle of the 9th Century. It is a unique monument of Byzantine art at the time of the Iconoclasm, one of only three illuminated Byzantine Psalters to survive from the 9th century....
) - StuttgartStuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
, Wurttembergische LandesbibliothekWürttembergische LandesbibliothekThe Württembergische Landesbibliothek is a large library in Stuttgart, Germany, which traces its history back to the ducal public library of Württemberg, founded in 1765. It holds c. 3.4 million volumes and is thus the fourth-largest library in the state of Baden-Württemberg...
, Cod. Bibl. 2. 12 (Stuttgart Psalter) - UtrechtUtrecht (city)Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
, UniversiteitsbibliotheekUtrecht UniversityUtrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....
, MS Bibl. Rhenotraiectinae I Nr 32. (Utrecht PsalterUtrecht PsalterThe Utrecht Psalter is a ninth century illuminated psalter which is a key masterpiece of Carolingian art; it is probably the most valuable manuscript in the Netherlands. It is famous for its 166 lively pen illustrations, with one accompanying each psalm and the other texts in the manuscript...
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BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- Cava de' TirreniCava de' TirreniCava de’ Tirreni is a city and comune in the region of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 10 km northwest of the town of Salerno...
, Biblioteca della Badia, Ms. memb. I 303 (La Cava BibleLa Cava BibleThe La Cava Bible or Codex Cavensis is a 9th century Latin illuminated Bible, which was produced in Spain, probably in the Kingdom of Asturias during the reign of Alfonso II...
) - London, British Library, MS Add. 10546. (Moutier-Grandval Bible)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1 (First Bible of Charles the BaldFirst Bible of Charles the BaldThe First Bible of Charles the Bald is a lavishly illuminated 9th century manuscript Bible commissioned by Count Vivien, the lay abbot of St. Martin at Tours, and presented to Charles the Bald in 846 on a visit to the church. It is also known as the Count Vivian Bible or the Vivian Bible...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 2 (Second Bible of Charles the Bald)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8847 (Bible fragment)
- Rome, St. Paul's Outside the Walls, s.n. (kept in the Vatican Library) (Bible of San Paolo fuori le MuraBible of San Paolo fuori le MuraThe Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura is a 9th century illuminated Bible. It is the most sumptuous surviving Carolingian Bible. The manuscript was produced at Rheims under the patronage Charles the Bald and was given to the Pope John VIII at the coronation of Charles as emperor, during Christmas...
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JobBook of JobThe Book of Job , commonly referred to simply as Job, is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God. The book is a...
and EzraBook of EzraThe Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era...
- London, British Library, Arundel 125 (Job and Ezra)
Prayerbooks
- CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, University LibraryCambridge University LibraryThe Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of Cambridge University in England. It comprises five separate libraries:* the University Library main building * the Medical Library...
, MS L1. 1. 10 (Book of CerneBook of CerneThe Book of Cerne is a ninth century Anglo-Saxon prayer book. It was apparently made between 820 and 840 for Bishop Æthelwold of Lichfield . It is the only surviving illuminated manuscript that can be firmly attributed to the kingdom of Mercia...
) - London, British Library, MS Harley 2965 (Book of NunnaminsterBook of NunnaminsterThe Book of Nunnaminster is a 9th century Anglo-Saxon prayerbook. It was written in the kingdom of Mercia, using an "insular" hand , related to Carolingian minuscule. It was probably later owned by Ealhswith, wife of Alfred the Great. It is related to, but of an earlier date than, the Book of Cerne...
) - London, British Library, MS Royal 2. A. XX (Royal Prayerbook)
- London, British Library, MS Add. 30852 (Mozarabic Prayerbook)
Liturgical BooksLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyRoyal Irish AcademyThe Royal Irish Academy , based in Dublin, is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is one of Ireland's premier learned societies and cultural institutions and currently has around 420 Members, elected in...
, MS D. II. 3, ff. 12-67 (Stowe MissalStowe MissalThe Stowe Missal, which is strictly speaking a sacramentary rather than a missal, is an Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin with some Gaelic in about 750. In the mid-11th century it was annotated and some pages rewritten at Lorrha Monastery in County Tipperary, Ireland...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9428 (Drogo SacramentaryDrogo SacramentaryThe Drogo Sacramentary is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript on vellum of c.850 AD, one of the monuments of Carolingian book illumination...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9451 (Lectionary)
Miscellanies
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52 (Book of ArmaghBook of ArmaghThe Book of Armagh or Codex Ardmachanus , also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Armachanus, is a 9th-century Irish manuscript written mainly in Latin. It is held by the Library of Trinity College, Dublin...
) - London, British Library, Royal MS 5 E XIII (Miscellany)
- LuccaLuccaLucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, MS 490 (Miscellany
CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- London, British Library, MS Add. 47678 (Cicero, Speeches)
- London, British Library, Harley MS 647 (Cicero, Aratea)
GermanicusGermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar , commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire. He was born in Rome, Italia, and was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle...
- Leiden, UniversiteitsbibliotheekLeiden University LibraryLeiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment...
, Voss. lat. Q 79. (Germanicus, Aratea)
Agrimensores
- Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Palat. lat 1564 (Agrimensores)
Theodore of MopsuestiaTheodore of MopsuestiaTheodore the Interpreter was bishop of Mopsuestia from 392 to 428 AD. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate...
- TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Biblioteca NazionaleTurin National University LibraryThe National University Library in Turin, Italy, is one of the country's main libraries.It was founded in 1720 as the Royal University Library by Victor Amadeus II, who unified collections from the library of the University of Turin and from the library of the Dukes of Savoy...
, MS B. 1. 2 (Theodore, Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets)
Beatus manuscriptsBeatus of LiébanaSaint Beatus of Liébana was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.-Biography:He created an important...
- Silos, Spain, Biblioteca del Monastery of Santo Domingo de SilosMonastery of Santo Domingo de SilosSanto Domingo de Silos Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Santo Domingo de Silos in the southern part of Burgos Province in northern Spain...
, frag. 4 (Silos Beatus Fragment)
Hrabanus Maurus
- Rome, Bibliotheca Vaticana, Reg. lat. 124 (Hrabanus Maurus, In Praise of the Holy Cross)
Canon LawCanon lawCanon law is the body of laws & regulations made or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church , the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of...
- London, British Library, Cotton MS Claudius B. V (Acts of the Council of Constantinople)
PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- BambergBambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, Bamberg State LibraryBamberg State LibraryThe Bamberg State Library is a combined universal, regional and research library with priority given to the humanities. Today it is housed in the New Residence, the former prince-bishop's new palace...
, Msc.Bibl.44 (PsalterPsalter (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS A. I. 14)Bamberg State Library, Msc.Bibl.44 is an early 10th century Psalter made for Salomo III, the Abbot of St. Gall in 909. The Psalter has parallel texts with texts in two Latin versions, a Hebrew version, and a Greek version...
) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, St. John's College, MS C. 9 (59) (Southampton PsalterSouthampton PsalterThe Southampton Psalter is an Insular illuminated Psalter from Ireland. It is asserted by some to be from ninth-century in date, while other scholars have argued for a tenth- or even early eleventh-century dating...
) - Cividale, Biblioteca Civica, MS. Sacri 6 (Egbert Psalter)
- London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, Add. MS 18043 (Stavelot Psalter) - London, British Library, Add. MS 37517 (Bosworth Psalter)
- London, British Library, Cotton MS Galba A XVIII (Aethelstan Psalter)
- London, British Library, Harley 2904 (Ramsey PsalterRamsey PsalterThe Ramsey Psalter is an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century. Its script and decoration suggest that it was made at Winchester, but certain liturgical features have suggested that it was intended for use at the Benedictine monastery of Ramsey, or for the personal use of Ramsey's founder St...
) - London, British Library, Royal MS 2 B V (Psalter)
- OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
, MS Junius 27 (Codex Vossanius) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 139 (Paris PsalterParis PsalterThe Paris Psalter is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures "in a grand, almost classical style", as the Encyclopædia Britannica put it....
) - Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica VaticanaVatican LibraryThe Vatican Library is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts. Formally established in 1475, though in fact much older, it has 75,000 codices from...
, Pal. Lat. 39 (Heidelberg Psalter)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- AachenAachenAachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
, Cathedral TreasuryAachen CathedralAachen Cathedral, frequently referred to as the "Imperial Cathedral" , is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen, Germany. The church is the oldest cathedral in northern Europe and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during the Middle Ages...
, s. n. (Aachen Gospels of Otto III) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, University LibraryCambridge University LibraryThe Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of Cambridge University in England. It comprises five separate libraries:* the University Library main building * the Medical Library...
, MS II. 6. 32 (Book of DeerBook of DeerThe Book of Deer is a 10th-century Latin Gospel Book from Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with early 12th-century additions in Latin, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It is most famous for containing the earliest surviving Gaelic literature from Scotland...
) - DarmstadtDarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, Landesbibliothek, MS 1948 (Gero Gospels) - The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 1 (Egmond Gospels) - The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 B 7 (Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 9381 (Bodmin Gospels)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 34890 (Grimbald Gospels)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 37320 (Greek Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 40000 (Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, Arundel 524 (Greek Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, Royal MS 1 A XVIII (Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, MS Stowe 3 (Gospel Book)
- MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453 (Gospels of Otto IIIGospels of Otto IIIThe Gospels of Otto III is a late 10th or early 11th century illuminated Gospel Book. The manuscript contains the Vulgate versions of the four gospels plus prefatory matter including the Eusebian canon tables. The manuscript is a major example of Ottonian illumination...
) - ModenaModenaModena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
, Biblioteca EstenseBiblioteca EstenseThe Biblioteca Estense , established in Modena in the seventeenth century, is one of the most important libraries in Italy. The library is located in the Palazzo del Musei, Off Via Emilia, at Piazza Sant'Agostino 48.- Collection :...
, Gr. I (Gospel BookGospel Book (Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Gr. I)Mimuscule 585 ε 125 is an illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book. It is dated paleographically to the late 10th century.- Description :...
) - Saint Petersburg, Russian National LibraryRussian National LibraryThe National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
, Trapezunt Gospel - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M2374 (Echmiadzin GospelEchmiadzin GospelThe Echmiadzin Gospels is a 10th century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery of Bgheno-Noravank in Syunik.- The book :...
, 989 http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_miniatures/m2374.htm)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- León, Colegiata de San Isidoro, Cod. 2 (León Bible of 960)
- León, León CathedralLeón CathedralSanta María de León Cathedral, also called The House of Light or the Pulchra Leonina is situated in the city of León in north-western Spain. It was built on the site of previous Roman baths of the 2nd century which, 800 years later, king Ordoño II converted into a palace.The León Cathedral,...
, Cod. 6 (León Bible of 920) - MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaThe Biblioteca Nacional de España is a major public library, the largest in Spain.It is located in Madrid, on the Paseo de Recoletos.-History:...
Cod. Vit. 13-1 (Biblia Hispalense)
New TestamentNew TestamentThe New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
- London, British Library, Add. MS 28815 and Egerton 3145 (Greek New Testament)
BedeBedeBede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, CambridgeCorpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, MS 183 (Corpus Bede) - London, British Library, Harley MS 1117 (Bede, Lives of Cuthbert)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 10 (Tanner Bede)
Beatus ManuscriptsBeatus of LiébanaSaint Beatus of Liébana was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.-Biography:He created an important...
- GironaGironaGirona is a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Güell, with an official population of 96,236 in January 2009. It is the capital of the province of the same name and of the comarca of the Gironès...
, Museo de la Catedral de Girona, Num. Inv. 7 (11), (Girona Beatus) - La Seu d'UrgellLa Seu d'UrgellLa Seu d'Urgell is a town located in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. La Seu d'Urgell is also the capital of the comarca Alt Urgell, head of the judicial district of la Seu d'Urgell and the seat of Bishop of Urgell, one of the Andorra co-princes...
, Musei Diocesá de La Seu d'Urgell, (Urgell BeatusUrgell BeatusThe Urgell Beatus, Beatus d'Urgell or Beatus la Seu d'Urgell is a 10th century illuminated manuscript and medieval commentary. It is at Musei Diocesá de La Seu d'Urgell, at La Seu d'Urgell in Spain.-References:...
) - MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Cod. 1097B (Tábara Beatus) - Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS VIT. 14-1 (Vitrina 14-1 Beatus)
- Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS VIT. 14-2, ff. 1-5 (Vitrina 14-2 Beatus Fragment)
- Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, Cod. 33 (San Millán beatus)
- New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 644 (Morgan BeatusMorgan BeatusThe Morgan Beatus is an illuminated manuscript with miniatures by the artist Magius of the Commentary on the Book of the Apocalypse by the eighth-century Spanish monk Beatus, which described the end of days and the Last Judgment...
) - San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5 (Escorial BeatusEscorial BeatusThe Escorial Beatus is a 10th century illuminated manuscript of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. The illuminations of the manuscript show similarities in style to those produced Florentius, the artist responsible for a copy the Moralia in Job of Pope Gregory I...
) - ValladolidValladolidValladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
, Biblioteca de la Universidad, (Valladolid Beatus)
Liturgical ManuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 30844 (Mozarabic Missal)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 49598 (Benedictional of St. ÆthelwoldBenedictional of St. ÆthelwoldThe Benedictional of St. Æthelwold is a 10th century illuminated benedictional, the most important surviving work of the Anglo-Saxon Winchester School of illumination...
) - London, British Library, Arundel 547 (Greek Gospel Lectionary)
Pope Gregory IPope Gregory IPope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
- ChantillyChantilly, OiseChantilly is a small city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune in the department of Oise.It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4 km...
, Musée Condé, MS 14 (St. Gregory, Epistles) - London, British Library, MS Egerton 3089 (Gregory, Dialogues)
- MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Biblioteca Nacional, Cod. 80 (Gregory, Moralia in Job)
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)
Tironian LexiconTironian notesTironian notes is a system of shorthand said to have been invented by Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro. Tiro's system consisted of about 4,000 signs, somewhat extended in classical times to 5,000 signs. In the European Medieval period, Tironian notes were taught in monasteries and the system...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 37518 (Tironian Lexicon)
Gregory of NazianzusGregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 36634 (Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations)
SeduliusCoelius SeduliusCoelius Sedulius, was a Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century. He is termed a presbyter by Isidore of Seville and in the Gelasian decree....
- London, British Library, MS Royal. 15. B. XIX., part A (Sedulius, poems)
Monastic rules
- London, British Library, Add. MS 30055 (Collection of Monastic Rules)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 25600 (Passions of Saints at Cordova)
- Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Cod. 10007 (Vitae PatrumVitae patrumThe Vitae Patrum is an encyclopedia of hagiographical writings from early Christianity. The Greek and Latin texts were compiled, edited, and translated into Latin by Heribert Rosweyde. It was published in ten books in 1628. The bulk of the texts date from the third and fourth centuries....
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CresconiusCresconius AfricanusCresconius Africanus was a Latin canon lawyer, of uncertain date and place. He flourished, probably, in the latter half of the 7th century...
- Rome, Biblioteca VallicellianaBiblioteca VallicellianaThe Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a library in Rome, Italy. The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini complex built by Francesco Borromini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova.The library holds about 130 000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabula, and books...
, MS A. 5 (Creconius, Concordia Canonum)
John ChrysostomJohn ChrysostomJohn Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic...
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 B 5 (John Chrysostom, Homilies in Praise of St. Paul, the Apostle)
Pseudo-ApuleiusPseudo-ApuleiusPseudo-Apuleius refers to the author of a Herbarium or De herbarum virtutibus, also referred as Herbarium Apuleii Platonici; it is a medical herbal of the 5th century....
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 D 7 (Pseudo-Apuleius)
Canon lawCanon lawCanon law is the body of laws & regulations made or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church , the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of...
- San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, d. I. 2 (Conciliar Codex of Albelda)
Isidore of SevilleIsidore of SevilleSaint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...
- London, British Library, Cotton MS DomitianDomitianDomitian was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War...
I (Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum) - San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, T. II. 24 (Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae)
Aldhelm
- London, British Library, Royal MS 5 E XI (Aldhelm, In Praise Of Virginity (London, British Library, Royal MS 5 E XI))
- London, British Library, Royal MS 5 F III (Aldhelm, In Praise Of Virginity (London, British Library, Royal MS 5 F III))
- London, British Library, Royal MS 6 A VI (Aldhelm, In Praise Of Virginity (London, British Library, Royal MS 6 A VI))
- London, British Library, Royal MS 7. D. XXIV (In Praise Of Virginity (London, British Library, Royal MS 7. D. XXIV))
Legal textsLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
- London, British Library, Cotton MS Otho E XIII (Legal Miscellany)
Biblical commentary
- London, British Library, Royal MS 4 A XIV (Commentary On Psalms 109-149)
Medical textsMedicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
- London, British Library, Royal MS 12 D XVII (Bald's LeechbookBald's LeechbookThe Leechbook of Bald is an Old English medical text probably compiled in the ninth-century, possibly under the influence of Alfred the Great's educational reforms....
) - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 74. 7 (Medical miscellany)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- BaltimoreBaltimoreBaltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Walters Art MuseumWalters Art MuseumThe Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
, MS W. 7 (Gospel Book) - BambergBambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, StaatsbibliothekBamberg State LibraryThe Bamberg State Library is a combined universal, regional and research library with priority given to the humanities. Today it is housed in the New Residence, the former prince-bishop's new palace...
, MS Msc. Bibl. (Gospels of Henry II) - Bremen, StaatsbibliothekStaatsbibliothekStaatsbibliothek is the German word for state library. Another term often used is Landesbibliothek. Both types of library refer to the general type of regional libraries in tradition of the States of Germany...
, MS b. 21 (Gospels of Henry III) - Jerusalem, St James Treasury, J2556 (Kars Gospels http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_miniatures/j2556.htm)
- The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 135 F 10 (Gospels) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, Add. MS 28106 and 28107 (Gospel Book) - London, British Library, Add. MS 37001 (Greek Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, MS Harley 2820 (Cologne Gospels)
- London, British Library, MS Harley 2821. (Ottonian Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, MS Loan 11 (Kederminster Gospels)
- Moscow, Russian State LibraryRussian State LibraryThe Russian State Library is the national library of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and the third largest in the world for its collection of books . It was named the V. I...
, museum collection of manuscripts, №1666 (Archangel GospelArchangel GospelThe Archangel Gospel is a Cyrillic Gospel Book manuscript written in 1092. It is the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript. The book is stored in the collection of Russian State Library. UNESCO added the Arkhangelsk Gospel to the international register Memory of the World Programme in 1997.The...
) - Moscow, Russian State LibraryRussian State LibraryThe Russian State Library is the national library of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and the third largest in the world for its collection of books . It was named the V. I...
, museum collection of manuscripts, №1689 (Codex MarianusCodex MarianusThe Codex Marianus ) is a Glagolitic fourfold Gospel Book from the beginning of eleventh century , which is , one of the oldest manuscript witnesses to the Old Church Slavonic language, one of the two fourfold gospels being part of the Old Church Slavonic canon, which contains a parts written by...
, or Mariinsky Gospel) - NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
, Germanisches NationalmuseumGermanisches NationalmuseumThe Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day...
, MS 156142 (Codex Aureus of EchternachCodex Aureus of EchternachThe Codex Aureus of Echternach is an 11th century illuminated Gospel Book....
) - PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, The National Library of the Czech Republic, MS XIV A 13, (Vyšehrad Codex), 1086 - Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Russian National LibraryRussian National LibraryThe National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
, (Ostromir Gospels) - San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Cod. Vitrinas 17, (Golden Gospels of Henry IIIGolden Gospels of Henry IIIThe Golden Gospels of Henry III, also Codex Aureus of Speyer or Speyer Gospels , is an eleventh century illuminated Gospel Book. The manuscript contains the Vulgate versions of the four gospels plus prefatory matter including the Eusebian canon tables...
) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M6201 (Armenian Gospels of 1038) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M3593 (Armenian Gospels of 1053 http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_miniatures/m3793.htm) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, M7736 (Mugni Gospels)
PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, MS W.530B (Vatopedi Psalter)
- HildesheimHildesheimHildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...
, Church of St. Godehard, s.n. (St. Albans PsalterSt. Albans PsalterThe St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate, is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several Psalters known to have been created at or for St Albans Abbey in the 12th century...
) - London, British Library, Add. MS 19352 (Theodore Psalter (Studion Psalter))
- London, British Library, Add. MS 40731. (Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Arundel 155 (Eadui Psalter (Arundel Psalter))
- London, British Library, MS CottonCotton libraryThe Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...
Tiberias C. VI (Tiberias Psalter) - London, British Library, MS Cotton VitelliusVitelliusVitellius , was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was acclaimed Emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors...
F. XI (Vitellius Psalter) - London, British Library, MS Harley 603 (Harley PsalterHarley PsalterThe Harley Psalter is an illuminated manuscript of the second and third decades of the eleventh century, with some later additions. It is a Latin psalter on vellum, measures 380 x 310 mm and was probably produced at Christ Church, Canterbury...
) - London, British Library, MS Stowe 2 (Psalter)
New TestamentNew TestamentThe New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
- London, British Library, MS Add. 39599 (Book of Acts and Epistles)
Apocalypse manuscriptsApocalypseAn Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...
- Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Bibl. 140 (Bamberg ApocalypseBamberg ApocalypseThe Bamberg Apocalypse is an 11th century richly illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelation and a Gospel Lectionary....
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Beatus manuscriptsBeatus of LiébanaSaint Beatus of Liébana was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.-Biography:He created an important...
- Burgo de Osma, Archivo de la Cateral, Cod. 1, (Osma Beatus)
- Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, &. II. 5 (Escorial BeatusEscorial BeatusThe Escorial Beatus is a 10th century illuminated manuscript of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. The illuminations of the manuscript show similarities in style to those produced Florentius, the artist responsible for a copy the Moralia in Job of Pope Gregory I...
) - MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Biblioteca Nacional, MS Vitrina 14-2 (Facundus Beatus) - New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1079, ff. 6-12 (Fanlo Beatus) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878 (Saint-Sever BeatusSaint-Sever BeatusThe Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever , is a French Romanesque illuminated Apocalypse manuscript from the 11th century. It was made at the Abbey of Saint-Sever. It contains the Commentary on the Apocalypse of Beatus of Liébana...
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Liturgical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 30337. (Exultet Roll)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 30850 (Mozarabic Antiphoner)
- MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452 (Pericopes of Henry IIPericopes of Henry IIThe Pericopes of Henry II is a luxurious medieval illuminated manuscript made for Henry II, the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor, made c. 1002 – 1012 AD...
) - Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 15713 (Salzburg PericopesSalzburg PericopesThe Salzburg Pericopes is a medieval Ottonian illuminated gospel pericopes made c. 1020 at St. Peter's Monastery, Salzburg, during the reign of Henry II, the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor...
) - PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, National Library of the Czech RepublicClementinumThe Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National...
, (Codex VyssegradensisCodex VyssegradensisThe Codex Vyssegradensis, also known as the Vyšehrad Codex or the Coronation Gospels of Vratislav II, is a late 11th century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book made at the order of Czech diplomats to honour an anniversary of the Czech King Vratislav's coronation which took place in 1085...
) - Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vatican, Barb. Lat. 592 (Exultet Roll)
- WarsawWarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Poland, Biblioteka Narodowa, BN rps BOZ 8 (Tyniec SacramentariumTyniec SacramentariumThe Tyniec Sacramentarium is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript written in ca. 1060-1070, probably near Cologne.A Sacramentary gives the priest's readings and prayers for the Mass....
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Miscellanies
- BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, Bibl. Roy 10074. (Miscellany) - Moscow, State Historical MuseumState Historical MuseumThe State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty...
, Two Miscellenies of Svyatoslav II (1073, 1076). - OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
(Caedmon manuscriptCaedmon manuscriptMS Junius 11 is one of the four major codices of Old English literature...
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Pope Gregory IPope Gregory IPope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
- Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Msc. Bibl. 84 (Gregory, Moralia in Job)
St. AugustineAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
- Durham Cathedral Library, MS B II 13 (Augustine. Commentary on the Psalter)
- London, British Library, Royal MS 5 B II (Augustine, Miscellaneous Works)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- London, British Library, Add. MS 28107 (Stavelot BibleStavelot BibleThe Stavelot Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript bible in two volumes datable to 1093-1097. It was produced for, but not necessarily in, the Benedictine monastery of Stavelot, in the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy of modern Belgium, and required four years to complete...
) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Ms Lat 5729 (Ripoll Bible, also known as Farfa Bible)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms Lat 6 (Rodes Bible, also known as Noailles Bible)
St. Jerome
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 A 3 (Jerome, Letters)
Smaragdus of Saint-MihielSmaragdus of Saint-MihielSmaragdus of Saint-Mihiel was a Benedictine monk of St Mihiel Abbey, near Verdun. He was a significant writer of homilies, and on the Rule of St Benedict.-Life:...
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 D 13 (Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum)
St. Ildefonsus
- FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Biblioteca Mediceo Lauenziana, MS Ashb. 17 (Ildefonsus, On the Virginty of Mary)
Prayer books
- Santiago de CompostelaSantiago de CompostelaSantiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...
, Biblioteca de la Universidad, Res. 1 (Prayer Book of Fernando and Sancha)
OppianOppianOppian or Oppianus was the name of the authors of two didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified, but now generally regarded as two different persons: Oppian of Corycus in Cilicia; and Oppian of Apamea in Syria.-Oppian of Corycus:Oppian of Corycus in Cilicia, who flourished in the...
- Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Gr. Z. 479 (Oppian, Cynegetica)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS II. I. 412 (Passionary)
BestiariesBestiaryA bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson...
and AviariesAviaryAn aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. Unlike cages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages...
- AberdeenAberdeenAberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
, Aberdeen University Library, MS 24 (Aberdeen BestiaryAberdeen BestiaryThe Aberdeen Bestiary is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster....
) - BrugesBrugesBruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
, Grootseminarie Brugge, MS. 89/54 (Ter Duinen Aviary) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, CambridgeCorpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, MS 22 (Bestiary) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, Add. MS 11283 (Bestiary) - London, British Library, Harley 4751 (Bestiary)
PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 9 (Ingeborg PsalterIngeborg PsalterThe Ingeborg Psalter is a late 12th century illuminated Psalter now housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.It was created about 1195 in northern France for Ingeborg of Denmark, wife of King Philip II of France...
) - Glasgow, Glasgow University LibraryGlasgow University LibraryThe University of Glasgow Library is one of the oldest and largest University libraries in Europe. It holds more than 2.5 million books and journals, as well as providing access to an extensive range of electronic resources including over 30,000 electronic journals.The current 12-storey building,...
, Sp Coll MS Hunter U.3.2 (229)(Hunterian PsalterHunterian PsalterThe Hunterian Psalter is an illuminated manuscript of the 12th century. It was produced in England some time around 1170, and is considered a striking example of Romanesque book art. The work is part of the collection of the Glasgow University Library, cataloged as Sp Coll MS Hunter U.3.2 ,...
) - The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 E 11 (Psalter) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 13 (Psalter)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 B 15 (Psalter)
- Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, Sankt Godehard Hs 1 (St. Albans PsalterSt. Albans PsalterThe St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate, is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several Psalters known to have been created at or for St Albans Abbey in the 12th century...
/ Albani Psalter / Psalter of Christina of Markyate) - Leiden, Leiden University LibraryLeiden University LibraryLeiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment...
, MS lat. 76. A (Psalter) - London, British Library, MS CottonCotton libraryThe Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...
NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....
C. IV. (Winchester PsalterWinchester PsalterThe Winchester Psalter is an English 12th-century illuminated manuscript psalter , also sometimes known as the Psalter of Henry of Blois, and formerly known as the St Swithun's Psalter...
) - London, British Library, MS Egerton 1139 (Melisende PsalterMelisende PsalterThe Melisende Psalter is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende...
) - London, British Library, Lansdowne 383 (Shaftesbury Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 2. A. XXII. (Westminster Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 40 (Camaldoli Psalter)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D 4 VI (Psalter)
- OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
, MS Gough lit. 2 (Gough Psalter)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 4 (Dover Bible)
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 2 (Bury St. Edmunds Bible)
- DurhamDurhamDurham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Cathedral LibraryDurham CathedralThe Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, MS A. II. 1 (Bible of Hugh de Puiset) - London, British Library, Add. MS 14788, 14789, 14790. (Parc Abbey BibleParc Abbey BibleThe Parc Abbey Bible is a 12th century illuminated Bible. It was made in the Leuven region of Belgium at the Abbey of St. Mary of Parc. A colophon on folio 197 indicates that the codex was produced in 1148. The text is Latin and written in proto-gothic book script on vellum...
) - London, British Library, MS Add. 17738 (Floreffe Bible)
- London, British Library, Harley 2799 (Arnstein Bible)
- London, British Library, Harley 2803 (Worms Bible)
- London, Lambeth Palace, MS3 (Lambeth BibleLambeth BibleThe Lambeth Bible is a 12th Century illuminated manuscript considered to be among the finest surviving giant bibles from Romanesque England. It exists in two volumes. The first volume exists in the Lambeth Palace library and covers Genesis to Job and is 328 pages of vellum measuring 518 x 353 mm...
) - WinchesterWinchesterWinchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...
, Cathedral LibraryWinchester CathedralWinchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe...
, MS 17 (Winchester BibleWinchester BibleThe Winchester Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript produced in Winchester between 1160 and 1175. With folios measuring 583 x 396 mm., it is the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible...
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Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 E 17 (Gospels)
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Acq. E Doni 91 (Gospel Book)
- London, British Library, MS Add. 4949 (Greek Gospel BookGreek Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 4949)British Library, MS Add. 4949 is an illuminated Gospel Book in Greek from the 12th century. It contains all four Gospels preceded by synaxarion and menologion, the Eusebian canon tables, and indications of lections. It has 259 vellum folios, most of which are gathered into quires of eight folios...
) - London, British Library, Harley 1802 (Gospels of Mael BrigteGospels of Mael BrigteThe Gospels of Mael brigte is an illuminated Gospel Book, with glosses....
) - Oxford, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, OxfordCorpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
, MS 122. (Corpus Irish Gospel) - Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelff. 105 Noviss 2 and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 30055 (Gospels of Henry the LionGospels of Henry the LionThe Gospels of Henry the Lion were intended by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, for the altar of the Virgin Mary in the church of St. Blaise's Abbey, Brunswick, better known as Brunswick Cathedral. The volume is considered a masterpiece of Romanesque book illumination of the 12th century.The gospel...
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OctateuchOctateuchThe Octateuch is a traditional name for the eight books of the Bible, comprising the Pentateuch, plus the Book of Joshua, Book of Judges and Book of Ruth....
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- IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Topkapı Palace LibraryTopkapi PalaceThe Topkapı Palace is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years of their 624-year reign....
, Cod. gr. 8 (Octateuch)
Liturgical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Conv. Soppr. 292 (Sacramentary)
- London, British Library, Harley 2800, 2801, 2802 (Arnstein Passional)
- London, British Library, Harley 2889 (Siegburg Lectionary)
- London, British Library, Harley 2897 (Breviary of John the Fearless)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 2 (Ottobeuren Collectar)
- Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 282. (Corpus Irish Missal)
- WoolhamptonWoolhamptonWoolhampton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. The village is situated on the London to Bath road between the towns of Reading and Newbury...
, Douai AbbeyDouai AbbeyDouai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 when the community left France as a result of...
, MS II (Liturgical fragment)
Miscellanies
- BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, Bibl. Roy. 18421-29 (Miscellany) - Brussels, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS. II, 1076 (Miscellany)
- London, British Library, Royal MS 5 B VIII (Miscellany)
Aratus of Soli
- AberystwythAberystwythAberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....
, National Library of WalesNational Library of WalesThe National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...
, MS 735C (Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena)
Peter LombardPeter LombardPeter Lombard was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum-Biography:Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno , in...
- BaltimoreBaltimoreBaltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Walters Art MuseumWalters Art MuseumThe Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
, MS W. 809 (Peter Lombard, Sentences)
Zacharias ChrysopolitanusZacharias ChrysopolitanusZacharias Chrysopolitanus, also known as Zachary of Besançon, was from Besançon and died about 1155. He was a biblical scholar of the Premonstratensian Order. He was headmaster of the Cathedral School at Besançon, France and then joined the order of the Premonstratensians at the Abbey of Saint...
- Camarillo, CaliforniaCamarillo, CaliforniaCamarillo is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 65,201 at the 2010 census, up from 57,084 at the 2000 census. The Ventura Freeway Camarillo is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 65,201 at the 2010 census, up from 57,084 at...
, Doheny LibraryDoheny LibraryThe Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library is a library located in the center of campus at the University of Southern California .After the tragic shooting of his son, the Irish American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny donated $1.1 million in 1932 to USC to build the Doheny Library. It was built by...
, MS 7 (Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, Unum ex Quatuor)
JeromeJeromeSaint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...
- Cambridge, Trinity CollegeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, MS O. 4. 7. (Jerome, Commentaries on Old Testament)
AugustineAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Newberry LibraryNewberry LibraryThe Newberry Library is a privately endowed, independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, Illinois. Although it is private, non-circulating library, the Newberry Library is free and open to the public...
, MS Ry. 24 (Augustine, works) - LincolnLincoln, LincolnshireLincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....
, CathedralLincoln CathedralLincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years . The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt...
, MS A I. 18 (Augustine, On the Psalms) - Lincoln, Cathedral, MS A. 3. 17 (Augustine, Semons)
- London, British Library, Royal MS 5 D VII (Augustine, City of God)
Historical worksHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
- Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyRoyal Irish AcademyThe Royal Irish Academy , based in Dublin, is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is one of Ireland's premier learned societies and cultural institutions and currently has around 420 Members, elected in...
(Lebor na hUidreLebor na hUidreLebor na hUidre or the Book of the Dun Cow is an Irish vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century. It is the oldest extant manuscript in Irish. It is held in the Royal Irish Academy and is badly damaged: only 67 leaves remain and many of the texts are incomplete...
, (Book of the Dun Cow))
Berengaudus
- Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. I. 10 (Berengaudus, On the Apocalypse)
Other Biblical texts
- Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. III. 17 (Isaiah glossed)
- San MarinoSan Marino, CaliforniaSan Marino is a small, affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. Incorporated in 1913, the City founders designed the community to be uniquely residential, with expansive properties surrounded by beautiful gardens, wide streets, and well maintained parkways...
, California, Huntington Library, HM 56 (Pauline Epistles, glossed)
Pope Gregory IPope Gregory IPope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
- EtonEton, BerkshireEton is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The parish also includes the large village of Eton Wick, 2 miles west of the town, and has a population of 4,980. Eton was in Buckinghamshire until...
, Eton College LibraryEton CollegeEton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
, MS 226 (Gregory, Moralia on Job)
Simon Metaphrastes
- London, British Library, MS Add. 11870 (Simeon Metaphrastes, Lives of Saints)
BedeBedeBede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 26. (Bede, Life of St. Cuthbert) (Yates Thompson Bede)
Cartularies
- London, British Library, MS Add. 15350 (Cartulary of the Priory of St. Swithin, Winchester)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- LjubljanaLjubljanaLjubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, Narodna in univerzitetna knjiznica v Ljubljani (Collectarium (William of St-Thierry, Life of St Bernard; Lives and Martyrdoms of Saints))
OrigenOrigenOrigen , or Origen Adamantius, 184/5–253/4, was an early Christian Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, in part because he believed in the pre-existence of souls...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 8 (Origen, Expositio super cantica canticorum)
James of Kokkinobaphos
- Paris, Bibliothèque National, MS gr. 1208 (James of Kokkinobaphos, Homilies on the Virgin)
- Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS vat. gr. 1162 (James of Kokkinobaphos, Homilies on the Virgin)
Beatus manuscriptsBeatus of LiébanaSaint Beatus of Liébana was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.-Biography:He created an important...
- Berlin, Sttatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz, MS Theol. lat. Fol. 561 (Berlin Beatus)
- León, Archivo Histórico Provincial, Perg., Astorga 1 (León Beatus Fragment)
- LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do TomboArquivo Nacional da Torre do TomboThe Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo is the Portuguese national archive established in 1378. It is located in Lisbon. It was renamed in 2009 as Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais .-Significant collections:...
(Lorvão Beatus) - London, British Library, Add. MS 11695 (Silos Beatus (Silos Apocalypse))
- MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Museo Arqueológica Nacional, MS 2 (Cardeña Beatus) - ManchesterManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 8 (Rylands Beatus) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 1366 (Beatus of Navarre)
- Rome, Biblioteca del'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Segn 40. E. 6 (Corsini Beatus)
- TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Sgn I. II. 1 (Turin Beatus)
Book of Antidotes
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Arabe 2964 (Book of Antidotes)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- BaltimoreBaltimoreBaltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Walters Art MuseumWalters Art MuseumThe Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
, MS W.152 (Conradin Bible) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Hébr. 7 (Hebrew Bible)
- The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 E 22 (Bible) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 23 (Bible)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 G 2 (Bible)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 J 2 (Bible)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 132 F 21 (Bible)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 133 D 25 (Bible)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 32 (Bible)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 33 (Bible)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 34 (Bible)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 35 (Bible)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 E 36 (Bible)
- Jerusalem, Jewish National and University LibraryJewish National and University LibraryThe National Library of Israel , is the national library of Israel...
, Ms. Heb. 4°790 (Hebrew Bible) - London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, MS Royal 1. D. I. (Bible of William of Devon) - London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 1 (Fécamp BibleFécamp BibleThe Fécamp Bible is an illuminated Latin Bible. It was produced in Paris during the third quarter of the 13th century, and belonged the collection of Henry Yates Thompson....
) - London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 22 (Brantwood Bible)
- New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms 638 (Morgan BibleMorgan BibleThe Morgan Bible is a medieval picture bible of 44 folios. It is also called the Morgan Bible of Louis IX, the Book of Kings, the Crusader Bible, and the Maciejowski Bible...
) - StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden, Swedish Royal LibrarySwedish Royal LibraryThe National Library of Sweden is the national library of Sweden. As such it collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature in...
(Codex GigasCodex GigasThe Codex Gigas is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. It is also known as the Devil's Bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation. It is thought to have been created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine...
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Bible MoraliséeBible moraliséeThe Bible moralisée. is a later name for the most important of the medieval picture bibles, sometimes called "biblia pauperum", though they were extremely expensive, to have survived. It is a heavily illustrated illuminated manuscript of the thirteenth century, and from the copies that still...
- OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
, MS Bodley 270b; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 11560; London, British Library, Harley 1526 and Harley 1527 (Oxford-Paris-London Bible Moralisée) - Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Vind. 2554 (Bible Moralisée)
- Cathedral of ToledoCathedral of ToledoThe Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Toledo, Spain, seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toledo....
treasury (St. Louis BibleSt. Louis BibleThe St. Louis Bible is a 13th-century moralized Bible, produced in France. It appeared in three volumes, and is in the treasury of the Cathedral of Toledo. It was apparently copied between 1226 and 1236, judging from the royal portraits, though its first documentary evidence is in Alfonso's...
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Picture Bibles
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 76 F 5 (Picture Bible)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, MS 7648 (Gospel Book) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, MS 1211 (Haghbat Gospel) - YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, MatenadaranMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
, MS 2743 (Targmanchats Gospel)
Apocalypse manuscriptsApocalypseAn Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...
- CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Trinity CollegeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, MS R. 16. 2 (Trinity Apocalypse) - London, British Library, Add. MS 35166 (Apocalypse)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 38842 (Apocalypse fragment)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 42555 (Abingdon Apocalypse)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 2. D. XIII (Apocalypse)
- London, Lambeth PalaceLambeth PalaceLambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England. It is located in Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames a short distance upstream of the Palace of Westminster on the opposite shore. It was acquired by the archbishopric around 1200...
, MS 209 (Lambeth Apocalypse) - Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 180 (Douce Apocalypse)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 403 (Paris Apocalypse)
Beatus manuscriptsBeatus of LiébanaSaint Beatus of Liébana was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.-Biography:He created an important...
- Ciudad de México, Archivo General de la Nación, Illustración 4852(Rioseco Beatus Fragment)
- New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 429 (Las Huelgas Beatus) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 2290 (Arroyo Beatus)
PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 13 (Psalter)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 130 E 13 (Psalter)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 21114 (Psalter of Lambert de Bègue)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 21926 (Grandisson Psalter)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 24686 (Alphonso Psalter (Tenison Psalter))
- London, British Library, Add. MS 28681 (Psalter Map Manuscript)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 36929 (Psalter)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 38116 (Huth Psalter)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 50000 (Oscott Psalter)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 62925 (Rutland Psalter)
- London, British Library, Egerton 2652 (Scandinavian Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Sloane 2400 (Felbrigge PsalterFelbrigge PsalterThe Felbrigge Psalter is an illuminated manuscript Psalter from mid-13th century England that has an embroidered bookbinding which probably dates to the early 14th century. It is the oldest surviving book from England to have an embroidered binding...
) - London, Society of AntiquariesSociety of Antiquaries of LondonThe Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
, MS 59 (Psalter of Robert de Lindesey) - New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 302 and CarinthiaCarinthia (state)Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
, St. Paul in Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, MS XXV/2 (Ramsey PsalterRamsey PsalterThe Ramsey Psalter is an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century. Its script and decoration suggest that it was made at Winchester, but certain liturgical features have suggested that it was intended for use at the Benedictine monastery of Ramsey, or for the personal use of Ramsey's founder St...
) - Moscow, Historical Museum, A. I. Chludov Collection, No. 3 (Simon Psalter)
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS lat. 1186 (Psalter of Blanche of Castille)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10525 (Psalter of St. LouisPsalter of St. LouisThe Psalter of Saint Louis is an illuminated psalter created for the saint King Louis IX of France sometime between the death of his mother Blanche of Castile in 1253 and his death in 1270...
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Psalter and Hours
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 G 17 (Psalter and Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 135 G 18 (Psalter and Hours)
- New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 729 (The Psalter and Hours of Yolande of Soissons)
Books of HoursBook of HoursThe book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
- Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.102, (Walters Book of Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 48985 (Salvin Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 49999 (De Brailes Hours (Dyson Perrins Hours))
- London, British Library, MS Harley 928 (Harley Hours)
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, MS 5 (Book of Hours)
Litugical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- Baltimore, Walters Art Museum MS 759 (Beaupré Antiphonary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 74 G 31 (Diurnal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 J 18 (Breviary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 135 L 20 (Antiphonary)
- ManchesterManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, John Rylands LibraryJohn Rylands LibraryThe John Rylands Library is a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Mrs Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her late husband, John Rylands...
, MS lat. 24 (Missal of Henry of Chichester) - New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 710 (Berthold Missal)
- Prague, National Library of the Czech RepublicClementinumThe Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National...
, (Passionale Abbatissae Cunegundis)
BestiariesBestiaryA bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson...
and AviariesAviaryAn aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. Unlike cages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages...
- CambraiCambraiCambrai is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages. The territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of Brabant, included...
, Bibliothèque Municipale de Cambrai, MS. 259 (Cambrai Aviary) - Cambridge, Cambridge University LibraryCambridge University LibraryThe Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of Cambridge University in England. It comprises five separate libraries:* the University Library main building * the Medical Library...
, MS Gg. 6.5 (Bestiary) - Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ii. 4. 26 (Bestiary)
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 4. 25 (Bestiary)
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam MuseumFitzwilliam MuseumThe Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
, MS 254 (Bestiary) - London, British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII (Rochester Bestiary)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1511 (Ashmole BestiaryAshmole BestiaryThe Ashmole Bestiary is a late 12th or early 13th century English illuminated manuscript Bestiary containing a creation story and detailed allegorical descriptions of over 100 animals...
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Miscellanies
- BordeauxBordeauxBordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
, Bibliothèque Municipale de Bordeaux, MS. 995 (Miscellany) - BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 8536-43 (Miscellany) - London, British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra B IX (Chess miscellany)
Joannitius
- Bethesda, MarylandBethesda, MarylandBethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
, National Library of Medicine (Joannitius, Isagoge)
Thomas AquinasThomas AquinasThomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...
- Brussels, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS II. 934 (Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- BucharestBucharestBucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, National Academy Library, MS grec 1294 Sec. XII Greece (Ioan Sinaitul, Canon of mercy) - Dublin, Trinity College LibraryTrinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, MS E. I. 40 (Dublin Life of Saint Alban)
Hugh of St. Cher
- DurhamDurhamDurham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Cathedral LibraryDurham CathedralThe Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The Bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in AD 1093...
, MS A. I. 16 (Hugh of St. Cher, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles)
FechtbücherFechtbuchMartial arts manuals are instructions, with or without illustrations, detailing specific techniques of martial arts.Prose descriptions of martial arts techniques appear late within the history of literature, due to the inherent difficulties of describing a technique rather than just demonstrating...
- LeedsLeedsLeeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, Royal Armories, British Museum No. 14 E iii, No. 20, D. vi., (I.33I.33Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, also known as "the Tower manuscript" because of its long stay in the Tower of London, is the usual name for the earliest known surviving European fechtbuch, although it deals only with the sword and buckler. The illuminated manuscript, of German origin, is now in the...
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GratianGratianGratian was Roman Emperor from 375 to 383.The eldest son of Valentinian I, during his youth Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers. Upon the death of Valentinian in 375, Gratian's brother Valentinian II was declared emperor by his father's soldiers...
- Liège, University LibraryUniversity of LiègeThe University of Liège , in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.-History:...
, MS 499 (Gratian, Decretum)
ChronicleChronicleGenerally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the...
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- London, British Library, Add. MS 21212 (Chronicle of Philip Augustus)
- Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Fr. 9081 (William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer)
Giles de Paris
- London, British Library, Add. MS 22399 (Gilles de Paris, poem)
Song CollectionsSongIn music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
- San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Real Biblioteca, MS. T. I. I (E Codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Canticles of Alfonso the Wise)
- Cantigas de Santa MariaCantigas de Santa MariaThe Cantigas de Santa Maria are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio and often attributed to him....
Raymond of PeñafortRaymond of PeñafortSaint Raymond of Penyafort, O.P. is a Dominican friar who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canon laws that remained part of church law until the Code of Canon Law was promulgated in 1917...
- San Marino, CaliforniaSan Marino, CaliforniaSan Marino is a small, affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. Incorporated in 1913, the City founders designed the community to be uniquely residential, with expansive properties surrounded by beautiful gardens, wide streets, and well maintained parkways...
, CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, Huntington Library, HM 57 (Raymond of Peñafort, Summa
PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 65 (Ptolemy, Almagest)
Peter LombardPeter LombardPeter Lombard was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum-Biography:Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno , in...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 A 22 (Peter Lombard, Glossa in Epistulas Pauli)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 135 F 8 (Peter Lombard, Commentarius in psalmos)
Martin of OpavaMartin of OpavaMartin of Opava, also known as Martin of Poland, was a 13th century chronicler.Known in Latin as Frater Martinus Ordinis Praedicatorum , he is believed to have been born, at an unknown date, in the Silesian town of Opava , thus sometimes called Martinus Oppaviensis, or also Martinus Polonus...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 G 63 (Martin of Opava, Chronicon Imperatorum)
St. Jerome
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 72 J 16 (Jerome, Sermons)
RomanceRomance (genre)As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
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- BonnBonnBonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, Universitätsbibliothek, MS S. 526 (Roman de Lancelot du Lac) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 78 D 47 (Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César)
- CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Trinity College, MS O.9.34. (Thomas of Kent, Roman de Toute Chevalerie)
GenealogyGenealogyGenealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 75 A 2/2 (Genealogy of the Kings of England)
Moses ben Avraham AvinuMoses ben Avraham AvinuMoses ben Avraham Avinu was an Czech-Austrian printer and author who was a Christian convert to Judaism. His father, Jacob, was also a convert....
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 131 A 3 (Moses Ben Abraham, Chronique de la Bible)
AvicennaAvicennaAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 B 24 (Avicenna, Canon medicinae)
Obituary rolls
- London, British Library, Egerton MS 2849 (Obituary Roll Of Lucy, First Prioress of Hedingham)
Lucas de Gail
- Modena, Biblioteca EstenseBiblioteca EstenseThe Biblioteca Estense , established in Modena in the seventeenth century, is one of the most important libraries in Italy. The library is located in the Palazzo del Musei, Off Via Emilia, at Piazza Sant'Agostino 48.- Collection :...
, Est. 59 (Lucas de Gail, Roman de Tristan)
Pliny the ElderPliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
- Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 83 (Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia)
Justinian
- Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS CLXXIII (Justinian, Corpus Iuris Civilis)
Al-Mubashshir
- IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Topkapi Palace LibraryTopkapi PalaceThe Topkapı Palace is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years of their 624-year reign....
, MS Ahmed III, 3206 (Al-Mubashshir, True Sayings and Speeches)
Dioscurides
- Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Library, MS Ahmed III, 2127 (Dioscurides, De materia medica)
Ahmad ibn al-Husain ibn Ahnaf
- Istanbul, Topkapi sarayi Museum, MS Ahmed III. 2115 (Ahmad ibn al-Husain ibn Ahnaf, The Book of the Art of Healing Horses)
Abu Muhammed al-Hariri
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Arabe 5847 (Abu Muhammed al-Hariri, The Maquamat)
Frederick IIFrederick II, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick II , was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous...
- Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Pal. lat. 1071 (De arte venandi cum avibusDe arte venandi cum avibusDe Arte Venandi cum Avibus, literally "The Art of Hunting with Birds", is a Latin treatise on ornithology and Falconry written in the 1240s by Frederick II, and dedicated to his son Manfred....
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PsalterPsalterA psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...
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- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, Macclesfield PsalterMacclesfield PsalterThe Macclesfield Psalter is a lavishly illuminated manuscript from the English region of East Anglia, written in Latin and produced around 1330...
- The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 75 H 40 (Psalter) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 128 G 29 (Psalter)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 135 E 15 (Psalter)
- London, British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, Add. MS 42130. (Luttrell PsalterLuttrell PsalterThe Luttrell Psalter is an illuminated manuscript written and illustrated circa 1320 – 1340 by anonymous scribes and artists...
) - London, British Library, Add. MS 49622 (Gorleston Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Arundel 83 pt. 2 (De Lisle Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 2. B. VII ((Queen Mary PsalterQueen Mary PsalterThe Queen Mary Psalter is a fourteenth-century psalter named for Mary I of England, who received it in 1553. Besides devotional texts, the illuminated manuscript contains a bestiary. The psalter is an important devotional text and is noted for its beauty, and is called "one ofthe choicest...
) - London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 14 (St. Omer Psalter)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 18 (Psalter of Henry VIIIPsalter of Henry VIIIThe Psalter of Henry VIII is a 16th century illuminated psalter that belonged to Henry VIII of England. It is now in the British Library as MS Royal 2 A xvi. The king commissioned the book in the early 1540s from the French illuminator Jean Mallard, who had at one time worked for Francis I...
) - Moscow, State Historical MuseumState Historical MuseumThe State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty...
, MS2752 (Tomich Psalter) - New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, The Cloisters Museum (Psalter of Bonne de Luxembourg) - New York, Public LibraryNew York Public LibraryThe New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
, Spencer Collection MS 26 (Tickhill PsalterTickhill PsalterThe Tickhill Psalter is an 14th century illuminated manuscript. It is beautifully illuminated with scenes from the life of King David. Created in the early 14th century, the manuscript was originally part of the library of the Worksop Priory in north Nottinghamshire. It is now kept in the New York...
) - OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
, MS Douce 366 (Ormesby Psalter) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. fr. 13091 (Psalter of Jean, Duc de Berry)
- ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1826 (Vienna Bohun Psalter) - Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Rossiiskaya Natsionalnaya Biblioteka (Kiev Psalter of 1397Kiev Psalter of 1397The Kiev Psalter of 1397, or Spiridon Psalter, is one of the most famous East Slavic illuminated manuscripts, containing over three hundred miniatures...
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Books of HoursBook of HoursThe book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS KA 36 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 F 6 (Hours of Isabella of Castile)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 G 3 (Book of Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Arundel 83 pt. 1 (Howard Psalter and HoursHoward Psalter and HoursThe Howard Psalter and Hours is a 14th century illuminated prayerbook. It includes a liturgical Psalter with canticles and litany, the Office of the Dead, a calendar of East Anglian origin and an incomplete Hours of the Passion. It was produced between 1310 and 1320. It is written in Latin in a...
) - London, British Library, Egerton MS 2781 (Neville of Hornby Hours)
- London, British Library, Egerton MS 3277 (Bohun Psalter and Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Stowe 17 (Maastricht Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 13 (Taymouth HoursTaymouth HoursThe Taymouth Hours is a c. 1325-40 illuminated book of Hours, produced in England and following the Sarum Rite. It contains calendars and 397 miniatures and border decorations. It is named after Taymouth Castle, where it was kept after being acquired by the earl of Breadalbane late in the 18th...
) - London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 27 (Hours of Yolande of Flanders)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 45 (Hours of Nicolas Rolin)
- New York, The Cloisters Museum, (Hours of Jeanne d'EvreuxHours of Jeanne d'EvreuxThe Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux is an illuminated Book of hours. It was created between 1324 and 1328 by Jean Pucelle for Jeanne d'Evreux, the third wife of Charles IV of France. Adolphe de Rothschild of Geneva acquired the book at the 19th century. On his death in 1900, it was left to his nephew...
) - New York, The Cloisters Museum, (Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de BerryBelles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de BerryThe Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures of Jean de Berry is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript book of hours commissioned by John of France, Duke of Berry...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 18014 (Petites Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. lat. 3093 (Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. lat. 3145 (Hours of Jeanne de Navarre)
Liturgical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- ChantillyChantilly, OiseChantilly is a small city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune in the department of Oise.It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4 km...
, Musée Condé, s. n. (Breviary of Jeanne d'Évreux) - The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10. A. 14 (Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 F 29 (Breviary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 78 D 40 (Festal Missal)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 A 14 (Missal)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 A 16 (Missal)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 D 26 (Missal)
- London, British Library, Add. MSS 29704, 29705, 44892 (Carmelite Missal)
- London, British Library, MS Stowe 12 (Stowe BreviaryStowe BreviaryThe Stowe Breviary is an early-fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Breviary from England, providing the divine office according to the Sarum ordinal and calendar ....
) - London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 8 (Breviary of Renaud de Bar)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 24 (Pontifical of Guilelmo Durando)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 34 (Epistolary of the Sainte Chapelle)
- London, Victoria and Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert MuseumThe Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, MS 1346-1891 (Missal of Saint-Denis) - London, Westminster AbbeyWestminster AbbeyThe Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...
, MS 37 (Missal of Abbot Nicholas Lytlington) - London, Westminster Abbey, MS 38 (Liber Regalis)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 861 (Missal for the Use of Paris)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1052 (Breviary of Charles V)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10483-10484 (Belleville BreviaryBelleville BreviaryThe Belleville Breviary is an illuminated breviary. It was produced in Paris some time between 1323 and 1326 by Jean Pucelle. It was probably produced for Jeanne de Belleville, the wife of Olivier de Clisson. The breviary is divided into two volumes of 446 and 430 folios...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-GenevièveBibliothèque Sainte-GenevièveThe Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève inherited the writings and collections of one of the largest and oldest abbeys in Paris. Founded in the sixth century by Clovis I and subject to the rule of St. Benedict Abbey, initially devoted to the apostles Peter and Paul, in 512 received the body of the St...
, MS 148 (Pontifical of Pierre de Treigny) - PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, National Library of the Czech RepublicClementinumThe Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National...
, MS A. 17, XIV (Passional of Abbess Kunigunde) - Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS. Urb. lat. 603 (Breviary of Blanche de France)
BestiariesBestiaryA bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson...
- BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 8340. (Bestiary) - CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, CambridgeCorpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, MS 53 (Peterborough Bestiary) - Cambridge, Fitzwilliam MuseumFitzwilliam MuseumThe Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
, J. 20. (Bestiary of Guillaume le Clerc) - Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 379. (Bestiary)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'ArsenalBibliothèque de l'ArsenalThe Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris is one of the branches of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.-History:...
, MS 5069 (Bible of Jean Papeleu) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 15397 (Bible of Jean de Sy)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 11935 (Bible of Robert de Billyng)
Bible Historiales
- GenevaGenevaGeneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, MS Fr. 2 (Geneva Bible Historiale) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 71 A 23 (Bible Historiale)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 78 D 43 (Bible Historiale)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B. 23 (Bible Historiale of Jean de Vaudetar)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 23 (Petrus Comestor, Bible historial, Guyars des Moulins translation)
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 5212 (Bible Historiale of Charles V)
- Saint Petersburg, Russian National LibraryRussian National LibraryThe National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
, Bible Historiale of d'Albret Family, in 2 volumes
Bible MoraliséeBible moraliséeThe Bible moralisée. is a later name for the most important of the medieval picture bibles, sometimes called "biblia pauperum", though they were extremely expensive, to have survived. It is a heavily illustrated illuminated manuscript of the thirteenth century, and from the copies that still...
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 167 (Bible Moralisée of Jean le Bon)
Biblical picture books
- London, British Library, Egerton MS 1894 (Egerton Genesis Picture Book)
- Prague, National Library of the Czech RepublicClementinumThe Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National...
, (Velislai biblia pictaVelislai biblia pictaThe Velislai biblia picta is an illuminated manuscript of 1325-1349, which is in effect a picture-book of the Bible, as the text is limited to brief titles or descriptions of the 747 pictures from the Old Testament and the New Testament, from the writings about the Antichrist and from the legends...
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New TestamentNew TestamentThe New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 75 E 8 (New Testament)
Apocalypse manuscriptsApocalypseAn Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...
- Dublin, Trinity College LibraryTrinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, MS 64 (Dublin Apocalypse) - London, British Library, Add. MS 18633 (Apocalypse)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 22493 (Apocalypse fragment)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 15. D. II (Welles/Greenfield Apocalypse)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 19. B. XV (Queen Mary Apocalypse)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- London, British Library, MS Royal 19. C. IV (Songe du Verger)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 2090-2092 (Life of Saint DenisLife of Saint Denis (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 2090-2092)Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 2090-2092 is an illuminated manuscript of The Life of Saint Denis, a hagiographical account of the life and martyrdom of Saint Denis, the first Bishop of Paris. The manuscript was produced in Paris and was begun at the request of John de Pontoise, Abbot of the Abbey...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. fr. 24541 (Miracles of Our Lady)
RomanceRomance (genre)As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
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- London, British Library, Add. MSS 10292-10294 (Saint Graal)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 23930 (Hélie de Borron, Romance of Guiron le Courtois)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 146 (Roman de Fauvel)
DanteDANTEDelivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various national research and education networks in Europe and surrounding regions...
- FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS 152 (Dante, Divine Comedy) - FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Biblioteca Nazional Centrale, Palat. MS 313 (Dante, Divine Comedy
AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
- Brussels, Biblothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 9505-9506 (Aristotle's Ethics)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 D 1 (Aristotle, Ethiques, Nicolas Oresme translation)
BoccaccioGiovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular...
- Berlin, Staatliche Preussicher Kulturbesitz, MS Hamilton 90 (Boccaccio, Decameron)
PetrarchPetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
- DarmstadtDarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, Hessischen Landes und Hofschulbibliothek, MS 101 (Petrarch, De Viris Illustribus)
Legal manuscriptsLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
- DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, ?, MS 32 (Sachsenspiegel) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 3893 (Decretum Gratiani)
- Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Ross. 555 (Jacob Ben Asher, Arba’ah Turim
MirrorMirrorA mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection...
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- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS Ak. XX (Spieghel Historiael)
- Leiden, Bibliothèque de l'Université, MS Voss. Gall. 3A (Miroir Historial of Vincent de Beauvais)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 16578 (Speculum Humanae SalvationisSpeculum Humanae SalvationisThe Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was a bestselling anonymous illustrated work of popular theology in the late Middle Ages, part of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature, in this case concentrating on the medieval theory of typology, whereby the events of the Old...
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Literary compilationsLiteratureLiterature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
- HeidelbergHeidelberg-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
, University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 848 (Codex ManesseCodex ManesseThe Codex Manesse, Manesse Codex, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is a Liederhandschrift , the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between ca. 1304 when the main part was completed, and ca...
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SenecaSeneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 11987 (Seneca)
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- London, British Library, Add. MS 39627 (Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander)
- St Petersbyrg, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siysky Gospel from 1339
ChronicleChronicleGenerally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the...
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- BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, (Chronicon Hungariae PictumChronicon PictumThe Chronicon Pictum Pictum, Chronica Picta or Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum) is a medieval illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the fourteenth century...
(Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum or Képes Krónika or The Illuminated Chronicle 1360)) - London, British Library, Add. MS 39758 (Chronicle and Chartulary of the Abbey of Peterborough)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 2813 (Charles V's Grandes Chroniques de France)
- St. GallSt. GallenSt. Gallen is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. The town mainly relies on the service sector for its economic...
, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadiana, MS 302 Vad. (World Chronicle and Charlemagne)
Guillaume de MachautGuillaume de MachautGuillaume de Machaut was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available....
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 1586 (Works of Guillaume de Machaut)
LivyLivyTitus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 A 16 (Livy, History)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 777 (Livy of Charles V)
Guillaume DurandGuillaume DurandGuillaume Durand, or William Durand, , also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende.-Life:He was born at Puimisson, near Béziers, of a noble family of Languedoc...
- Vienna, Austria, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, (Guillaume Durand, Rationale divinorum officiorum)
- BucharestBucharestBucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, National Academy Library, MS lat. 2, (Guillaume Durand, Rationale divinorum officiorum)
Prayerbooks
- Vatican, Apostolic Library, (Vatican Croatian Prayer BookVatican Croatian Prayer BookVatican Croatian Prayer Book is the oldest Croatian vernacular prayer book and the finest example of early štokavian vernacular literary idiom....
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Jacob van MaerlantJacob van MaerlantJacob van Maerlant was the greatest Flemish poet of the thirteenth century and one of the most important Middle Dutch authors during the Middle Ages.-Biography:...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS KA 16 (Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS KA 20 (Jacob van Maerlant, Spieghel Historiael)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 E 16 (Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel. and Die wrake van Jherusalem)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 21 (Jacob van Maerlant, Rhimebible)
Augustine
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 A 1 (Augustine, De civitate Dei and Liber de cura pro mortuis gerenda)
Guillaume de LorrisGuillaume de LorrisGuillaume de Lorris was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose. Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, and that the work was completed forty years later by Jean de Meun.-...
and Jean de MeunJean de MeunJean de Meun was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.-Life:...
- Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 482/665 (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 120 D 13 (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 29 (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose)
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)
SermonSermonA sermon is an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts...
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- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 70 E 5 (The Limburg Sermons)
Gautier de Coinsi
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 A 24 (Gautier de Coinsi, Les miracles de Notre Dame)
Johannes Januensis
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 A 13 (Johannes Januensis, Catholicon)
HippocratesHippocratesHippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles , and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine...
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 22 (Hippocrates, Aphorismi et prognostica cum commentis Galeni)
Military treatises
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 73 J 22 (Vegetius, L'Art de chevallerie. Frontinus, Stratagèmes)
Cartularies
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 75 D 7 (Charters of the cities of Flanders)
Durand de Mende
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 78 D 41 (Durand de Mende, Le rational des divins offices de l'église)
CalendarCalendarA calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years. The name given to each day is known as a date. Periods in a calendar are usually, though not...
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 26 (Utrecht Calendar)
Valerius MaximusValerius MaximusValerius Maximus was a Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of Tiberius .-Biography:...
- London, British Library, MS Arundel 7 (Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium)
Books of HoursBook of HoursThe book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11051 (Book of Hours)
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, ms. 11060-1 (Très Belles Heures du duc de Berry, also called Heures de Bruxelles)
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 62 (Hours of Isabella StuartHours of Isabella StuartThe Hours of Isabella Stuart, Duchess of Brittany are an illuminated Book of Hours produced at Angers around 1417/18 in the workshop of the Rohan Master. It was not written especially for its namesake, Isabella Stuart, but she was one of its earliest owners. It follows the Paris liturgy of the...
) - ChantillyChantilly, OiseChantilly is a small city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune in the department of Oise.It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4 km...
, Musée Condé, MS 71 (Hours of Etienne ChevalierHours of Étienne ChevalierThe Hours of Étienne Chevalier is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to king Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet....
) (40 images only) - Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65 (Très Riches Heures du Duc de BerryTrès Riches Heures du Duc de BerryThe Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or simply the Très Riches Heures is a richly decorated book of hours commissioned by John, Duke of Berry, around 1410...
) - Chapel Hill, North CarolinaChapel Hill, North CarolinaChapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...
, University of North CarolinaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
, Ackland Art MuseumAckland Art MuseumThe Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is located at 101 S...
, Ackland Fund, 69. 7. 2 (Book of Hours leaf) - East Lansing, MichiganEast Lansing, MichiganEast Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from...
, Michigan State UniversityMichigan State UniversityMichigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
Library, MS 2 (Book of Hours http://35.9.2.51:80/record=b3578321a) - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 1874 (Book of Hours of Lorenzo de' Medici)
- Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Banco Rari 397 and Landau Finaly 22, (Visconti Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 G 54 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 G 55 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 F 1 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 3 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 8 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 22 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 28 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 30 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 34 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 35 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 G 37 (Hours of Simon de Varie)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 H 8 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 H 31 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 74 H 42 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 75 G 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 75 H 43 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 2 (Hours of Philip of Burgundy)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 7 (Hours of Catherine of Aragon)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 14 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 15 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 17 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 21 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 22 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 25 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 27 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 30 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 F 31 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 7 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 8 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 9 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 10 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 11 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 12 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 13 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 14 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 16 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 19 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 20 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 21 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 22 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 23 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 27 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 76 G 28 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 77 L 45 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 77 L 58 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 77 L 59 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 77 L 60 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 78 J 7 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 79 K 1 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 79 K 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 79 K 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 128 G 31 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 4 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 130 E 19 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 1 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 3 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 4 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 7 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 8 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 G 41 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 H 8 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 H 9 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 H 11 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 H 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 131 H 25 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 132 G 37 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 132 G 38 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 1 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 6 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 7 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 14 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 15 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 16 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 17 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 D 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 11 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 12 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 15 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 16 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 17 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 19 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 E 22 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 H 16 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 H 30 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 H 31 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 M 23 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 M 82 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 M 124 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 133 M 131 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 C 4 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 12 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 18 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 22 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 23 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 25 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 36 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 40 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 E 45 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 F 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 G 9 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 G 10 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 G 19 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 J 9 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 J 10 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 J 50 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 J 55 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 K 11 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 K 15 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 K 17 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 K 40 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 135 K 45 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 E 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 E 47 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 1 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 2 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 3 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 5 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 11 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 12 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 13 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 17 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 20 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 23 (Book of Hours)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 F 50 (Book of Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 18850 (Bedford Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 28962 (Psalter and Hours of Alphonso V of Aragon)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 34294, 1-4 (Sforza Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 38126 (Huth Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 42131 (Psalter and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 50001 (Hours of Elizabeth the Queen)
- London, British Library, Add. MA 50002 (Mirandola Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 54782 (London Hours of William Lord Hastings (Hastings Hours))
- London, British Library, MS Royal 2 A. XVIII (Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 3 (Hours of Jean Dunois)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 4 (Hours of Jacob de Bregilles)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 23 (Hours of Agostino Biliotti)
- Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470 Book of Hours (Book of Hours (Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470)Book of Hours (Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470)Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470 is a 15th century Book of Hours. It was made in a French-Burgundian scriptorium. It measures 131 by 89 mm and has 366 folios. The text is written in Textualis Gothic bookscript. There are twenty grisaille miniatures within wide, decorated borders....
) - New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 893 (Psalter and Hours of Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick)
- New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 945 and M. 917 (Hours of Catherine of ClevesHours of Catherine of ClevesThe Hours of Catherine of Cleves is an ornately illuminated manuscript in the Gothic art style, produced in about 1440 by the anonymous Dutch artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves. It is one of the most...
) - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9471 (Grandes Heures du Duc de Rohan)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 919 (Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry)
- Saint Petersburg, Russian National Library, Hours of Maria Stuart
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, MS 2 (Le Louchier Hours) or (The Syracuse Hours)
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, MS 3 (Book of Hours)
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, MS 6 (Book of Hours)
Book of Hours and Prayer Book
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 134 C 47 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 135 F 4 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 135 G 12 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
- The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, 10 F 15 (Book of Hours and Prayer Book)
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)
Liturgical manuscriptsLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
- AixAix-en-ProvenceAix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...
, MS 11 (Missal) - Alnwick CastleAlnwick CastleAlnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in the town of the same name in the English county of Northumberland. It is the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building.-History:Alnwick...
, Collection of the Duke of NorthumberlandDuke of NorthumberlandThe Duke of Northumberland is a title in the peerage of Great Britain that has been created several times. Since the third creation in 1766, the title has belonged to the House of Percy , which held the title of Earl of Northumberland from 1377....
(Sherborne MissalSherborne MissalThe Sherborne Missal is a 15th century English illuminated manuscript missal in the British Library that has survived in excellent condition. It weighs 20 kg and has 347 leaves. It was commissioned by Abbott Robert Bruyning of Sherborne, and was made for use at Sherborne Abbey...
) - AvallonAvallonAvallon is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in center-eastern France.-Geography:Avallon is located 50 km south-southeast of Auxerre, served by a branch of the Paris-Lyon railway and by exit 22 of the A6 motorway...
, MS 1 (Missal) - Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 3452 (Breviary of Hugues Dobois)
- FribourgFribourgFribourg is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district of Sarine. It is located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss plateau, and is an important economic, administrative and educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland...
, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, MS L. 64 (Breviary) - The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 70 E 12 (Lectionary with Gospel and Epistle lessons, glossed)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 74 G 33 (Diurnal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 75 A 2 / 6 (Antiphonary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 76 D 14 (Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 76 E 2 (Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 76 E 8 (Breviary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 76 E 18 (Mass and Office Book of the Brotherhood of St. Catherine of the Paris)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 78 A 34 (Fragments of liturgical manuscripts)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 78 D 44 (Missal of the Church of St. Servatius, Maastricht)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 78 J 47 (Lay Breviary)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 128 D 29 (Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 128 D 30 (Festal Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 133 E 8 (Diurnal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 134 C 60 (Psalter and Breviary of St. Bridget)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 135 H 45 (Missal)
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, 135 J 8 (Diurnal)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 17440 (Missal)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 18851 (Breviary of Isabella of Castile)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 35311 (Breviary of John the Fearless)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 227 (Abingdon Missal)
- RanworthRanworthRanworth is a village in Norfolk, England in The Broads, adjacent to Malthouse Broad and Ranworth Broad.-Church of St Helen:The 14th century St. Helen's church has a fine 15th century painted rood screen and a rare Antiphoner. It is a Grade I listed building From the top of Ranworth church's 100...
, St. Helen's Church, s. n. (Ranworth AntiphonerRanworth AntiphonerThe Ranworth Antiphoner is a 15th-century illuminated antiphoner. It was used at St. Helen's Church, Ranworth prior to the Reformation. It disappeared for about 300 years. In the 1850s it was in the collection of Henry Huth. Its provenance was not appreciated until 1912, when it was offered for sale...
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Pentateuchs
- London, British Library, MS Or. 2348 (Hebrew Pentateuch)
BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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- AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New Zealand, Public Library, MS G. 128-31 (Bible) - Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MSS 106, 107, 204 and 205 (Bible)
- DarmstadtDarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, Staatsbibliothek, MS 324 (Bible of Thomas à Kempis) - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 15. 17 (Bible of Matthias Corvinus)
- London, British Library, Add. MSS 10043 and 38122 (Bible of Herman van Lochorst)
- ModenaModenaModena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
, Biblioteca EstenseBiblioteca EstenseThe Biblioteca Estense , established in Modena in the seventeenth century, is one of the most important libraries in Italy. The library is located in the Palazzo del Musei, Off Via Emilia, at Piazza Sant'Agostino 48.- Collection :...
, VG 12 (Lat. (422-23) (Bible of Borsso d'Este)
Bible Historiales
- London, British Library, MS Royal 15 D I (Bible Historiale of Edward IV)
Chaucer
- AberystwythAberystwythAberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....
, National Library of WalesNational Library of WalesThe National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...
(Hengwrt manuscriptHengwrt manuscriptThe Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, where it is known as MS Peniarth 392D.-History of the manuscript:...
) - Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (Corpus Troilus)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 35286 (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales)
- San Marino, CaliforniaSan Marino, CaliforniaSan Marino is a small, affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. Incorporated in 1913, the City founders designed the community to be uniquely residential, with expansive properties surrounded by beautiful gardens, wide streets, and well maintained parkways...
, Huntington Library, EL 26 C 9 (Ellesmere ChaucerEllesmere manuscriptThe Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California...
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Miscellanies
- BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Biblioteca Universitària de Barcelona, MS 75 (Miscellany) - BambergBambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, MS. Msc, Theo. 233 (Bamburg Miscellany) - London, British Library, Add. MS 8784 (Miscellany)
Welsh
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 7006D (The Black Book of BasingwerkThe Black Book of BasingwerkThe Black Book of Basingwerk is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales containing, among other texts, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. It is mostly the work of the Welsh poet and scribe Gutun Owain...
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CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- Berlin, Staatliche Museum, Preussicher Kulturbesitz, MS Hamilton 166 (Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum)
Apocalypse manuscriptsApocalypseAn Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...
- CambraiCambraiCambrai is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages. The territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of Brabant, included...
, Bibliothèque Municipal, MS 422 (Cambrai Apocalypse)
ChronicleChronicleGenerally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the...
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- BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, (Epitoma Rerum Hungaricarum) - Cambridge, Trinity Hall, MS 1 (Thomas of Elmham, Chronicles of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury)
- Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 1389 (Bidpai, Fables)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS Fr. 2643-6 (Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6) Froissart, Chronicles
- Saint Petersburg, Russian National Library, Grands Chroniques de France by Simon MarmionSimon MarmionSimon Marmion was a French or Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts...
- Saint Petersburg, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (Radzivill Chronicle)
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 113 (Brut Chronicle)
Albertus MagnusAlbertus MagnusAlbertus Magnus, O.P. , also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic saint. He was a German Dominican friar and a bishop, who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion. Those such as James A. Weisheipl...
- Eton, Eton CollegeEton CollegeEton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
, Library, MS 44 (Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Saints Luke and Mark)
QuintilianQuintilianMarcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing...
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS 46. 13 (Quintilian)
LivyLivyTitus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 63. 12. (Livy, Ab Urbe Conditia)
Coluccio
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Strozzi. 36 (Coluccio)
Eusebius of CaesareaEusebius of CaesareaEusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
- Geneva, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, MS lat. 49 (Eusebius of Caesarea, De Temporibus)
Duns ScotusDuns ScotusBlessed John Duns Scotus, O.F.M. was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought....
- London, British Library, Add. MS 15272 (Duns Scotus, On the Sentences)
Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
- London, British Library, Add. MS 16982 (Caesar)
John MandevilleJohn Mandeville"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371.By aid of translations into many other languages...
- London, British Library, Add. MS 24189 (Travels of Sir John Mandeville)
VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
- Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 492 (Virgil, Works)
- London, British Library, King's 24 (The King's Virgil)
RomanceRomance (genre)As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
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- London, British Library, MS Royal 15 E VI (Talbot Shrewsbury Book of Romances)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 10290 (London Jason)
FechtbücherFechtbuchMartial arts manuals are instructions, with or without illustrations, detailing specific techniques of martial arts.Prose descriptions of martial arts techniques appear late within the history of literature, due to the inherent difficulties of describing a technique rather than just demonstrating...
- Fiore dei LiberiFiore dei LiberiFiore Furlano de Civida d'Austria delli Liberi da Premariacco was a Medieval master of arms and the earliest Italian master from whom we have an martial arts manual...
, 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 WallersteinCodex WallersteinThe Codex Wallerstein is a 16th century fechtbuch. The titleVom Baumans Fechtbuch appears on the first page, together with the date 1549. The Codex came in the possession of Paulus Hector Mair in 1556...
) - Krajow, Biblioteka Jagiellonski (GladiatoriaGladiatoriaGladiatoria is the name given to an anonymous mid 15th century German Fechtbuch, formerly kept at the Preussische Königliche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, now at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland...
) - ?, Bibliotheca dell'Academica Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Cod. 1449 (Cod. 44 A 8Cod. 44 A 8Cod. 44 A 8 also known as MS 1449, Bibliotheca dell'Academica Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, is a Fechtbuch compiled by Peter von Danzig in 1452. Danzig was a 15th century German Fencing master...
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Chani da Castello
- London, British Library, MS Egerton 1866 (Chani da Castello, Libro Imperiale)
St. Benedict
- London, British Library, Add. MS 30078 (Rule of St. Benedict)
Roman satires
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 50 (Satires of Juveanl and Persius)
HagiographyHagiographyHagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
- Malta, Bibljoteka Nazzjonali ta' Malta Malta Life of St. Anthony the Abbot
- Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, MS Laur. Med. Pal. 143 (Florence Life of St. Anthony the Abbot)
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 940 (Life and Passion of St. Maurice)
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 55 (Capgrave, Life of St. Norbert)
OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
, trans. Octavien de Saint Gelais
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 60 (Epitres D’Ovide, trans. Octavien de Saint Gelais
AlexandriaAlexandriaAlexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...
- SofiaSofiaSofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Narodna Biblioteka Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (Alexandria of Sofia CodexAlexandria of Sofia CodexThe Alexandria Codex of Sofia is a 15th century manuscript collection that includes the illustrated "Alexandria", the Trojan Legend , the Legend for the Indian Kingdom, and various liturgical articles, proverbs and texts devoted to fortune-telling...
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Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- Moscow, Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka, (Khitrovo Gospel)
- Athens, Greece, Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados, Codex 2603 (Gospel BookGospel Book (Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados, Codex 2603)Codex 2603, the Four Gospels, is a historic codex held by the National Library of Greece. The book is attributed to scribe Matthew of the Hodegon Monastery, the so-called thutorakendutès....
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Philostratos
- Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Cod. Lat. 417 (Philostratus Corvina)
Music ManuscriptMusic manuscriptMusic manuscripts are handwritten sources of music. Generally speaking, they can be written on paper or parchment. If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph. Music manuscripts can contain musical notation as well as texts and images...
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- Eton, Eton College MS. 178 (Eton ChoirbookEton ChoirbookThe Eton Choirbook is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of English sacred music composed during the late fifteenth century. It was one of very few collections of Latin liturgical music to survive the Reformation, and originally contained music by 24 different composers; however, many of...
) - Vatican City, Apostolic Library, Chigiana, C. VIII. 234 (Chigi codexChigi codexThe Chigi codex is a music manuscript originating in Flanders. According to Herbert Kellman, it was created sometime between 1498 and 1503, probably at the behest of Philip I of Castile. It is currently housed in the Vatican Library under the call number Chigiana, C. VIII...
) - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 87 (Squarcialupi codexSquarcialupi CodexThe Squarcialupi Codex is an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence, Italy in the early 15th century...
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Aurora consurgensAurora consurgensThe Aurora consurgens is an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century in the Zurich Zentralbibliothek . It contains a medieval alchemical treatise, in the past sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas, now to a writer called the "Pseudo-Aquinas". Unusually for a work of this type, the manuscript...
- 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
St. AugustineAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
- New York Public Library, Spencer Collection MS 30 (Augustine, City of God)
Johannes von TeplJohannes von TeplJohannes von Tepl , also known as Johannes von Saaz , was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German ....
- Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 76 (Johannes von Tepl, Der Ackermann aus Böhmen)
DanteDANTEDelivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various national research and education networks in Europe and surrounding regions...
- London, British Library, Yates Thompson 36 (Dante, Divine Comedy)
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Urb. Lat. 365 (Dante, Divine Comedy)
Pseudo-Lull
- Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, BR 52 (Pseudo-Lull, Alchemical treatises)
SuetoniusLives of the Twelve CaesarsDe vita Caesarum commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius,...
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, cod. lat. 5814 (Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars)
Johannes de Deo
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1591 (Johannes de Deo, Columba)
De sphera
- Modena, Biblioteca Estense, α. 2. 14 (Lat. 209) (De sphera)
EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
- Mariano TaccolaTaccolaMariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola , called Taccola , was an Italian administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices...
, De machinis- Codex latinus monacensis 28800 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München,
- MS 136 in the Spencer Collection New York Publuc Library,
- Codex latinus 2941 in the Bibliotheca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia.
- Paolo Santini or Paulus Savetinus Ducensis copy of Taccola work, De re militari et de machinis bellicis Codex latinus 7239 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris,
- Mariano TaccolaTaccolaMariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola , called Taccola , was an Italian administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices...
, De ingeneis- Codex latinus monacensis 197 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München;
- Add. 34113 in the British Library, London
- Codex Santini in the Collection of Avv. Santini, Urbino
- Ms. Palatino 766 (BNCF)
16th century
- Saint Petersburg, Saltykov-Schedrin Public Library (Life of Alexander NevskyLife of Alexander Nevsky (illuminated manuscript)"Life of Alexander Nevsky" is a Russian illuminated manuscript of the late 16th century . It is currently housed in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library in Saint Petersburg, Russia....
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Books of HoursBook of HoursThe book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
- DunedinDunedinDunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
, Public Library, Reed Collection, MS 8 (Book of Hours) - The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10. F. 33 (Hours of Jehan de Luc)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 18852 (Hours of Joanna of Castile (Hours of Joanna the Mad))
- London, British Library, Add. MS 18853 (Hours of Francis I)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 20927 (Stuart de Rothesay Hours)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 24098 Fragmentary Book of Hours (Golf Book)
- London, British Library, Add. MS 35319 (Egmont Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Royal 2 B XV (Book of Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 5 (Tilliot Hours)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 7 (Hours of Dionora of Urbino)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 29 (Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri)
- London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 30 (Hours of Laudomia de' Medici)
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 48 (Book of Hours)
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, MS 7 (Book of Hours)
- Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. Ross. 94 (Book of Hours)
Litugical manuscriptLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard College, Houghton Library, pfms. Lat. 186 (Graduall)
Prayerbooks
- London, British Library, Add. MS 15281 (Prayerbook of Sigismund I of Poland)
Law codes
- London, British Library, Add. MS 10142 (Ancient Laws of Denmark)
Traicte de Peyne
- San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 49 (Traicte de Peyne)
GeographyGeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
- __________ 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))
AlchemyAlchemyAlchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
- Prague, Národní knihovna Ceské republiky, Griemiller z Trebska, Jaroš Rosarium philosophorum
Gospel BookGospel BookThe Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament...
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- Kiev, Natsional'na biblioteka Ukraïny, im. V. I. VernadskohoVernadsky National Library of UkraineThe Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the main academic library and main scientific information centre in Ukraine, one of the world's largest national libraries. It is located in the capital of the country – Kiev. The library contains about 15 million items...
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Book of unknown contents
- New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book Library, MS 408 (Voynich manuscriptVoynich manuscriptThe Voynich manuscript, described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912....
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DiatessaronDiatessaronThe Diatessaron is the most prominent Gospel harmony created by Tatian, an early Christian apologist and ascetic. The term "diatessaron" is from Middle English by way of Latin, diatessarōn , and ultimately Greek, διὰ τεσσάρων The Diatessaron (c 160 - 175) is the most prominent Gospel harmony...
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, orient. 81 (Persian DiatessaronPersian DiatessaronThe Persian Diatessaron of Iwannis ‛Izz al-Din of Tabriz is a 13th Century Gospel harmony, the earliest of the Bible translations into Persian. It appears to have been translated from a late copy of a Syriac harmony....
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Ardašīr Book
- TübingenTübingenTübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...
, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. Or. qu. 1680 (Ardašīr Book)
Paisios Hagiopostolites
- London, British Library, Add. MS 8238 (Paisios Hagiopostolites, Verse History of Mount Sinai and its environs)
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.)
Vaticinia de Summis PontificibusVaticinia de Summis PontificibusA series of manuscript prophecies concerning the Papacy, under the title of Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, a Latin text which assembles portraits of popes and prophecies related to them, circulated from the late thirteenth-early fourteenth century, with prophecies concerning popes from Pope...
- Rome, Italy; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Castro Pretorio). Dipartimento Manoscritti Antichi e Rari. Fondo Vittorio Emmanuele 307 (Vaticinia de Futuri Christi Vicarii ad Cesarem FiliumVaticinia NostradamiThe Vaticinia Michaelis Nostradami de Futuri Christi Vicarii ad Cesarem Filium D. I. A. Interprete , or Vaticinia Nostradami for short, is a collection of eighty watercolor images compiled as an illustrated codex...
; 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.
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)
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 BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
See also
- List of manuscripts
- List of codices
- Book of Job in Byzantine Illuminated ManuscriptsBook of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscriptsThere are fourteen known Byzantine manuscripts of the Book of Job dating from the 9th to 14th centuries- as well as a post-byzantine codex illuminated with cycle of miniatures...
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, http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503532325-1