List of illuminated manuscripts

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

This is a list of illuminated manuscripts.

Contents

2nd century

3rd century

4th century

5th century

Biblical Texts

Virgil

Homer

Herbal

Unknown

6th century

Gospel Books

Genesis

Bible

Pentateuch

Dioscurides

Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum

Detached Lists

7th century

Mushaf

Gospel Books

Psalters

Bibles

Orosius

Jerome

Miscellany

Dioscurides

Detached Leaves

Gregory of Tours

Gregory the Great

Origen

8th century

Gospel Books

Psalters

Bibles

Apocalypse manuscripts

Boethius

Isidore of Seville

Bede

Cassiodorus

Miscellanies

Pope Gregory I

Liturgical manuscripts

Hagiography

Césaire d'Arles

Collectio canonum

Glossaries

Prayer Book

9th century

Gospel Books

Psalters

Bibles

Job and Ezra

Prayerbooks

Liturgical Books

Miscellanies

Physiologus

Cicero

Germanicus

Agrimensores

Theodore of Mopsuestia

Terence

Beatus manuscripts

Hrabanus Maurus

Canon Law

10th century

Psalters

Gospel Books

Bibles

New Testament

Book of Joshua

The first book of Maccabees

Bede

Beatus Manuscripts

Liturgical Manuscripts

Pope Gregory I

Dioscurides

Miscellanies

Tironian Lexicon

Orosius

Gregory of Nazianzus

Sedulius

Monastic rules

Hagiography

Cresconius

John Chrysostom

Pseudo-Apuleius

Canon law

Isidore of Seville

Aldhelm

Biblical commentary

Medical texts

11th century

Gospel Books

Psalters

New Testament

Apocalypse manuscripts

Beatus manuscripts

Liturgical manuscripts

Miscellanies

Pope Gregory I

St. Augustine

Bibles

St. Jerome

Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel

St. Ildefonsus

Prayer books

Oppian

Hagiography

12th century

Bestiaries and Aviaries

Psalters

Bibles

Gospel Books

Octateuchs

Liturgical manuscripts

Miscellanies

Aratus of Soli

Peter Lombard

Zacharias Chrysopolitanus

Jerome

Augustine

Historical works

Berengaudus

Other Biblical texts

Pope Gregory I

Simon Metaphrastes

Bede

New Testament

Heliand

Cartularies

Hagiography

Origen

James of Kokkinobaphos

Beatus manuscripts

Book of Antidotes

Secular works

13th century

Bibles

Bible Moralisée

Picture Bibles

Gospel Books

Apocalypse manuscripts

Beatus manuscripts

Psalters

Psalter and Hours

Books of Hours

Liturgical manuscripts

Precepts

Bestiaries and Aviaries

Miscellanies

Joannitius

Thomas Aquinas

Hagiography

Hugh of St. Cher

Fechtbücher

Gratian

Chronicles

Giles de Paris

Song Collections

Raymond of Peñafort

Ptolemy

Peter Lombard

Martin of Opava

St. Jerome

Romances

Eddas

Genealogy

Moses ben Abraham

Avicenna

Obituary rolls

Lucas de Gail

Pliny the Elder

Justinian

Al-Mubashshir

Dioscorides

Ahmad ibn al-Husain ibn Ahnaf

Abu Muhammed al-Hariri

Frederick II

14th century

Psalters

Books of Hours

Liturgical manuscripts

Bestiaries

Bibles

Bible Historiales

Bible Moralisée

Biblical picture books

New Testament

Apocalypse manuscripts

Hagiography

Romances

Dante

Aristotle

Boccaccio

Petrarch

Mirrors

Literary compilations

Seneca

Gospel Books

Chronicles

Guillaume de Machaut

Livy

Sagas

Guillaume Durand

Music manuscripts

Prayerbooks

Jacob van Maerlant

Augustine

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Miscellany

Sermons

Gautier de Coinsi

Johannes Januensis

Hippocrates

Military treatises

Cartularies

Durand de Mende

Calendar

Atlases

Valerius Maximus

15th century

Books of Hours

Book of Hours and Prayer Book

Prayer Books

Liturgical manuscripts

Pentateuchs

Bestiaries

Bibles

Bible Historiales

Chaucer

Psalters

Miscellanies

Welsh

Cicero

Apocalypse manuscripts

Chronicles

Albertus Magnus

Quintilian

Livy

Coluccio

Eusebius of Caesarea

Duns Scotus

Julius Caesar

John Mandeville

Virgil

Romances

Fechtbücher

Chani da Castello

St. Benedict

Roman satires

Hagiography

Ovid, trans. Octavien de Saint Gelais

Alexandria

Gospel Books

Philostratos

Music manuscripts

Aurora consurgens

St. Augustine

Johannes von Tepl

Dante

Pseudo-Lull

Suetonius

Johannes de Deo

De sphera

Engineering

Vexillology

16th century

Books of Hours

Liturgical manuscripts

Prayerbooks

Law codes

Traicte de Peyne

Geography

Alchemy

Gospel Books

Psalters

Book of unknown contents

Diatessaron

17th century

Ardašīr Book

Paisios Hagiopostolites

Slujebnicul Arhieresc al Mitropolitului Stefan al Ungrovlahiei

Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

18th century

19th century

21st century

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Book of hours</span> Type of Christian devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages

Books of hours are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are 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 psalms, often with appropriate decorations, for Christian devotion. Illumination or decoration is minimal in many examples, often restricted to decorated capital letters at the start of psalms and other prayers, but books made for wealthy patrons may be extremely lavish, with full-page miniatures. These illustrations would combine picturesque scenes of country life with sacred images.

In the Western Church of the Early and High Middle Ages, a sacramentary was a book used for liturgical services and the mass by a bishop or priest. Sacramentaries include only the words spoken or sung by him, unlike the missals of later centuries that include all the texts of the mass whether read by the bishop, priest, or others. Also, sacramentaries, unlike missals, include texts for services other than the mass such as ordinations, the consecration of a church or altar, exorcisms, and blessings, all of which were later included in Pontificals and Rituals instead.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tiberius Bede</span>

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, another of which happens to be MS Cotton Tiberius A. XIV, produced at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. As such it is one of the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has 155 vellum folios. This manuscript may have been the Latin text on which the Alfredian Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History was based. The manuscript is decorated with zoomorphic initials in a partly Insular and partly Continental style.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paris Psalter</span> Tenth-century illuminated manuscript

The Paris Psalter is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 38 x 26.5 cm in size, containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures. The Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called Macedonian Renaissance, a 10th-century renewal of interest in classical art closely identified with the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (909-959) and his immediate successors.

<i>Commentary on the Apocalypse</i> Book by Beatus of Liébana

Commentary on the Apocalypse is a book written in the eighth century by the Spanish monk and theologian Beatus of Liébana (730–785) and copied and illustrated in manuscript in works called "Beati" during the 10th and 11th centuries AD. It is a commentary on the New Testament Apocalypse of John or Book of Revelation. It also refers to any manuscript copy of this work, especially any of the 27 illuminated copies that have survived. It is often referred to simply as the Beatus. The historical significance of the Commentary is made even more pronounced since it included a world map, which offers a rare insight into the geographical understanding of the post-Roman world. Well-known copies include the Morgan, the Saint-Sever, the Gerona, the Osma and the Madrid Beatus codices.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bedford Master</span> French painter

The Bedford Master was a manuscript illuminator active in Paris during the fifteenth century. He is named for the work he did on two books illustrated for John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford between 1415 and 1435. One is the Bedford Hours, a book of hours in the British Library ; the other, the Salisbury Breviary, is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Another manuscript is in the Royal Collection. The Bedford Master is known to have been the head of a workshop; his chief assistant is known as the Chief Associate of the Bedford Master.

<i>Rosary of the Philosophers</i> 16th-century alchemical treatise

The Rosary of the Philosophers is a 16th-century alchemical treatise. It was published in 1550 as part II of De Alchimia Opuscula complura veterum philosophorum (Frankfurt). The term rosary in the title is unrelated to the Catholic prayer beads; it refers to a "rose garden", metaphoric of an anthology or collection of wise sayings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Master of the Registrum Gregorii</span> 10th-century scribe and illuminator

The Master of the Registrum Gregorii, also known as the Registrum Master or the Gregory Master, was an anonymous 10th-century scribe and illuminator, active in Trier during the episcopate of Egbert of Trier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gothic book illustration</span> Style of illustration from the European High and Late Middle Ages

Gothic book illustration, or gothic illumination, originated in France and England around 1160/70, while Romanesque forms remained dominant in Germany until around 1300. Throughout the Gothic period, France remained the leading artistic nation, influencing the stylistic developments in book illustration. During the transition from the late Gothic period to the Renaissance, book illustration lost its status as one of the most important artistic genres in the second half of the 15th century, due to the widespread adoption of printing.

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Footnotes

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