Illuminated Manuscript

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quick snack(Saturn devouring his offspring)Boccaccio, Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes (French tr

falling starsLivre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134,

The Hours of Elizabeth the QueenFolio f.7r, Made in England, likely London around 1430.Images from t

The Kiss of Judas (folio 158 from Les Heures de Charles d'Angoulême), Israhel von Meckenem, 15th cen

open-minded martyrs(Saint Denis and Saint Piatus)‘Livre d'images de madame Marie’, Haina

goatmanbook of hours, Poitiers c. 1450-1460private collection / Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilo

Two Beautifully decorated letters from The Luttrell Psalter -  f198v-199rManuscript produced in Linc

Babur (Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muḥammad), the first Mughal emperor (r. 1526-1530), hunts rhinoceros with his co

heaveninawildflower:Illuminated page with a botanical illustration.Taken from ‘Grandes Heures d'Anne

The Bury Gospels, Canon Tables - folios 6v - 7r - Harley MS 761020 - 1030

Scenes of the Apocalypse and the End of Times, taken from the illuminated manuscript Il Leggendario

King Louis XII of France presents his wife Anne of Bretagne to the goddess Fortuna (Fortune).  Minia

medievalengravings:Sea monsters, illuminated Persian manuscript, 13th century 

design-is-fine:Ornamental initial from the Folchart-Psalter, 875. Abbey library of Saint Gall ©Stift

Epistulae heroidum (Octavien de Saint-Gelais) by Jean Pichore, Robinet Testard and other unknown ill

eadfrith:Today, The 4th of June, is the feast day of Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne - Saint Eadfrit

irisharchaeology:St. Gall Gospel, The Crucifixion. Illuminated by Irish monks around 750 AD it is no

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Today, The 4th of June, is the feast day of Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne - Saint Eadfrith. Bishop

Sometimes #manuscripts are so beautiful that we simply must celebrate all of their pleasing aspects.

Opening tonight! Beyond Words is a new multi-site exhibition that brings together masterpieces of ma

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript. Iran/Iraq, dated A.H. 531/ A.D. 1137. Metropolitan Museum, New York.

hrothgar:Lancelot du Lac, 1310-1315, Northeastern France, perhaps in Saint-Quentin or Laon, The Morg

organ catprayer book, Bruges or Ghent c. 1480-1490Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.438, fol. 161v

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