Historical Religious Manuscripts

Intricate medieval manuscript pages featuring men and women in prayer, decorative initials, and scenes depicting biblical themes, rich in color and detail.

Noah sends off Dove / Illumination
Noah sends off Dove / Illumination
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Netherlands, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, Master of the Delbecq-Schreiber Passion, Master of Delft, Christ at Zacchaeus' House; Zacchaeus in the Fig Tree, Printed from two blocks. Left: Christ at table with Zacchaeus and other men. Right: Zacchaeus in tree and Christ with retinue looking up., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, height 75 mm, width 142 mm, Northern Netherlands, unknown, 1480 - 1500, fourth quarter 15th century, first quarter 16th century, paper, woodcut, Southern Netherlands
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PRIVILEGIO DONA JUANA A FAVOR DEL DEAN DE ALMERIA - SIGLO XV. Location: CATEDRAL DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ENCARNACION. Almería. SPAIN.
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Saint Agnes in a Historiated Initial V from an Antiphonary 1310-1315 Italy. Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in Latin in black and red ink, ruled in red ink, on parchment . Neri da Rimini
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Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary 1450-60 Attributed to Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) Italian. Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary 463543
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Decorated Initial I. Unknown
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Jacob Consecrating Bethel.
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God the Father with the Heavenly Hierarchy. Unknown
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Rosary with Virgo Lactans; Norfolk perhaps (written), East Anglia, England; about 1480-1490; Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 11.9 × 17 cm (4 11,16 × 6 11,16 in.)
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Decorated Initial J. Unknown
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Decorated Initial V. Unknown
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Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (recto) and Text (verso), c. 1330-40. Bohemia. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment; sheet: 35.4 x 23.5 cm (13 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The crucified Christ was a central theme of medieval visual art. Each period set its own artistic and iconographic priorities, depending on the function and context of the works. For example, the dead Christ with his head bowed, the side wound dripping with blood, and the richly designed loincloth is characteristic of the 1300s. This miniature is from Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia), with its capital, Prague, as a leading art center of its time. The great plague, however, does not seem to have triggered a surge of innovation there.
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Proprio del tempo gradual from the first Sunday of Advent to the Saturday before Palm Sunday, by Anonymous Sienese painter , Benvenuto di Giovanni Giovanni di Meo del Guasta anonymous Sienese painter, 15th Century, illuminated manuscript. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Osservanza basilica. Detail. Dominus illuminated page score notes text verses prayer chant incipit: beginning initial letter decoration plant volutes rinceaux blue red yellow green.
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Page from a Choirbook with Christ and a Pharisee in a Historiated Initial D” 1430-1490 Spain. Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with rounded gothica textualis inscriptions in brownish black ink, ruled in red, on parchment . Master of the Cypresses
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Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral Treasure Museum. Altar book
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Proprio del tempo gradual from the first Sunday of Advent to the Saturday before Palm Sunday, by Anonymous Sienese painter , Benvenuto di Giovanni Giovanni di Meo del Guasta anonymous Sienese painter, 15th Century, illuminated manuscript. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Osservanza basilica. Detail. Lux illuminated page score notes text verses prayer chant incipit: beginning initial letter ibis birds decoration plant volutes rinceaux blue red yellow green.
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God in the Rain Cloud; Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany; about 1400 - 1410; Tempera colors, gold, silver paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 33.5 x 23.5 cm (13 3,16 x 9 1,4 in.)
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October: the threshing of acorns, miniature from Adone Martyrology, latin manuscript, 11th Century.
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Christ before Pilate.
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Gradual from Palm Sunday to the XXIV Sunday after Pentecost, by Anonymous Sienese painter, 15th Century, illuminated manuscript. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Osservanza Basilica. Whole artwork. Nos illuminated page score notes text verses prayer chant incipit: beginning initial letter decoration blue red yellow green.
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Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary ca. 1100 Byzantine Illuminated manuscripts written in Greek were considered one of the greatest art forms by the highly literate and sophisticated clerical and secular elite of Byzantium. Over the centuries many works were commissioned for use in important churches. The calendar in this lectionary and the quality of the entire work suggest that the manuscript was made for the great church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.The Gospels were central to the liturgy of the Orthodox church. At the Little Entrance, which introduced the Liturgy of the Word, the deacon presented the Gospel to the faithful. In the middle Byzantine era, the lectionary replaced the Gospel book as the most widely used text by the church. In it Gospel texts were rearranged by the sequence in which they were read during the liturgical year, which begins at Easter in the Orthodox church. Often, as in this manuscript, the liturgical calendar and the lives of saints who were celebrated daily
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The Caporali Missal, 1469. Bartolommeo Caporali (Italian, c. 1420-1503), assisted by Giapeco Caporali (Italian, d. 1478). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; 400 folios; overall: 35 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.). Called a missal, this manuscript served as a liturgical service book used by the priest at the altar during Mass. According to a colophon, an inscription on folio 400, the missal was made for the Franciscan church of San Francesco in Montone, near Perugia in the region of Umbria, in 1469. It was illuminated by Bartolomeo and Giapeco Caporali, two artist brothers who collaborated on the page decorations. The missal is opened here to the volumes masterpiece, a two-page deluxe opening to the Canon of the Mass with a Calvary scene. The Canon introduces the most solemn part of the Mass during which the priest elevates and consecrates the Eucharistic bread and wine. Saint Francis kneels at the foot of the cross, attesting to the missals Franciscan use and affiliation.
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CALENDARIO CON LA RECOLECCION DE NABOS - SIGLO XV. Location: B COMUNAL, FORLI, ITALIA.
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The Trinity. Unknown
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The Crowning with Thorns. Unknown
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Moses before Pharaoh and Thermutis. Unknown
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Antiphonal, The Circumcision of Jesus, Domus Galilaeae (House of Galilee) run by the Catholic organisation Neocatechumenal Way, Antiphonary. Mount of ...
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. matutinarium, illuminated initial l, martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the presence of Emperor Valerian, ink and tempera on vellum, about 1510, Santa Engracia monastery desk, Huesca Diocesan Museum, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22307550
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Isaiah 1, 1294
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The Betrayal of Christ; Ghent, Belgium; about 1475; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 43.8 x 30.5 cm (17 1,4 x 12 in.)
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The Annunciation to Joachim. Unknown
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Jephthe and his Daughter. Unknown
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Pentecost; Ghent, Belgium; about 1475; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 43.8 x 30.5 cm (17 1,4 x 12 in.)