Illuminated Manuscript Gallery
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Illustrations from a 12th century Byzantine manuscript the “Madrid Skylitzes”
Signs of the Last Judgement (fragment) - Livre de la Vigne Nostre Seigneur
damienkempf:The art of warWritten by Konrad Kyeser (1366- c. 1405), Bellifortis is the first fully i
ponientes-archive:Born of eternal night, dark elves come to steal away the light.
The Lindisfarne Gospels - folio 2vBack to my favourite book. The carpet page introduction incipit o
The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Miniature from the Hortus Deliciarum (Garden of Delights)
Herrad of Landsberg (1130-1195), ‘Depiction of Hell’, from “Hortus Deliciarum&rdqu
Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert. Folio 60r. Dated around 1170. Saint Cuthbert heals a sick girl by
Carpet page from The Lindisfarne Gospels introducing the Gospel of Matthew - made for “God and St Cu
Symbols representing the Zodiac from The York PsalterFolios 1-5, Origin; England 1260Add MS 54179, I
Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma (Italian; 1457–1505)ca. 1500Tempera a
Unfinished business: this manuscript was intended to have illuminated initials, but for some reason
Illuminations from the Vienna Dioscorides, a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica f
Epistulae heroidum (Octavien de Saint-Gelais) by Jean Pichore, Robinet Testard and other unknown ill
Homilies of Gregory the Theologian, 9th-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript
Chesta Chatura Nayaka (The Hero Who is Clever in Actionattributed to Kripal of Nurpur, Pahari 1660–7
Fugger Ehrenbuch by Jorg Breau the Younger, 1545-49
Illustrations from “The Braunschweig Sketchbook”, c. 1380-1420
Illustrations from Héroïdes d'Ovide Héroïdes ou épitres d'Ovide, (Octavien de Saint Gelais) by Robin
Limoges enamels illustrating events from Virgil’s Aeneid by the Master of the Aeneid, c. 1530-35; Fr
deathandmysticism:Wilhelm von Zimmern, Zimmerische Totentanz, ca. 1540-50
delphinidin4:Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485 (Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470)
16th-century artillery manuals demonstrating how to use cats and birds to set fire to besieged citie
carminamoderna:The asp, a snake with eviscerating venom, will put one ear to the ground and stop the
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