Illuminated Manuscripts and Texts

Pages from ancient manuscripts featuring colorful illuminations, decorated letters, and historical texts, highlighting medieval artistry and writings.

Inhabited Initial P; Hildesheim, Germany; probably 1170s; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 28.2 × 18.9 cm (11 1,8 × 7 7,16 in.)

LIBRO DE CONSTANTINO AFRICANO-FOL I. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Inhabited Initial Q; Paris, France; about 1170 - 1180; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 44.3 x 29.1 cm (17 7,16 x 11 7,16 in.)

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Initial Q: Doubting Thomas. Unknown

Inhabited Initial P; Hildesheim, Germany; probably 1170s; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 28.2 × 18.9 cm (11 1,8 × 7 7,16 in.)

MS L-III-18-AFORISMORUM YPOCRATIS.FOL 16.PRINCIPIO. Author: HIPOCRATES DE KOSS (460 AC-377 AC). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Initial V: Job Derided by His Wife and Three Friends. Unknown

Initial V: Isaiah Being Sawn in Two. Unknown

MS L-III-18-INCIPIT LIBER URINARUM A VOCE THEOPHYLI.FOL 50. Author: TEOFILO. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Initial F: Delivery of a Letter; Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; about 1280 - 1290; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 37.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3,4 x 9 3,4 in.)

Decorated Initial A; Decorated Initial P; Circle of Stefan Lochner (German, died 1451); Cologne, Germany; about 1450; Gold leaf, tempera, and black ink on parchment; Leaf: 36.7 x 26 cm (14 7,16 x 10 1,4 in.)

Inhabited Initial S; Paris, France; about 1170 - 1180; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 44.3 x 29.1 cm (17 7,16 x 11 7,16 in.)

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Page of text in hand 2; initials, rubrics, placemarkers. Woodcuts of John the Baptist, a soul rescued from Hell, and Mary and all the saints.. 1401 - 1500. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Cartulary of St. Cugat Monastery. Parchment. It contains 1253 numered documents that go from the year 904 to 1249. Reference to title land property, and income of the monastery. c. 13th century. Added of the 14th-17th centuries. Catalonia, Spain.

Inhabited Initial H. Date/Period: Ca. 1170 - 1180. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 443 mm (17.44 in); Width: 291 mm (11.45 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

MS B.R.20-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº322-F28V-TEXTO-ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES- S XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Peter Comestor Reading. Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350 - 1370)

BIBLIA. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPANIEN.

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Text with initial, rubric, placemarkers and border design including drawing of Adam, Eve and the Serpent.. 1445. Schlapperitzin, Konrad ca. um 1445. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Adam (Biblical figure), Devil, Eve (Biblical figure), Tree of life

Single Leaf from a Decretum by Gratian: Decorated Initial Quidam habens filium obtulit and Quadruple Arcade with Concordance of Greek and Latin Alphabets , c. 1160-1165. France, Burgundy, Archdiocese of Sens, Abbey of Pontigny, 12th century. Ink and tempera on vellum; sheet: 44.8 x 32 cm (17 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.); framed: 63.5 x 48.3 cm (25 x 19 in.); matted: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.). This leaf was excised from a copy of the handbook of church law known as the Decretum written by Gratian, an Italian Camaldolese monk active in Bologna from about 1130 to 1140. The focus of the leaf is a large decorated letter Q with spiraling lotus petals introducing the first Causa, or case of law. The text begins, "A man having a son offered him to a very wealthy cloister." This case concerns the definition of simony (making profit from sacred things). The style of the illumination and the script date the leaf to between 1160 and 1165. In November 1164, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, took

Hunayn Ibn Ishaq al-cIbadi (809873), Isagoge. Hippocrates, as represented in a mid-thirteenth century copy of the Isagoge.Manuscript E 78, f. 15 verso

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ARCHIVO-FUERO GRAL DE NAVARRA. Location: DIPUTACION FORAL-BIBLIOTECA. Pamplona. NAVARRA. SPAIN.

Initial D: David Reading the Psalms. Unknown

Inhabited Initial Q. Unknown

DE VIRIBUS CORDIS - TRANSLATION OF ARNALDO DE VILANOVA - MS 3058-F62. Author: IBN SINA (980-1037) LATINIZADO COMO AVICENA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

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Large initial Q of Psalm 51, showing scenes from 2 Samuel 1. Scrolls are missing their text. Illuminated titles, initials, linefillers, rubric, miniatures at the bottom of the page (with text in scrolls)., 1310

Inhabited Initial A; Sens (or), France; about 1170 - 1180; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 44.3 x 29.1 cm (17 7,16 x 11 7,16 in.)

Large opening initial showing Jerome as scribe, extending far into border. 2-line red and blue initials with penwork. Placemarkers, chapter numbers. Note of ownership in upper margin.. 1200 - 1250. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

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MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº35 - F51R - TEXTO -ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Initial O: A Woman Expostulating with Two Kings and Two Youths. Unknown

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Peter Comestor Presenting a Letter to the Archbishop of Sens; Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350 - 1370); Paris, France; about 1360 - 1370; Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 34.9 x 26 cm (13 3,4 x 10 1,4 in.)

Initial P: Saint Paul Giving a Letter to a Messenger. Date/Period: Ca. 1280 - 1290. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 375 mm (14.76 in); Width: 248 mm (9.76 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Decorated Initial I; Sens (or), France; about 1170 - 1180; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 44.3 x 29.1 cm (17 7,16 x 11 7,16 in.)

Pliny The Elder (23-79). Roman writer. Page from the second book of Pliny's 'Naturalis Historia' (Natural History). Edition printed in Venice in 1487. Miniature Painting.

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Historiated Initial E: Tree Frogs and Frogs in the Water. Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, illuminator (French, active about 1445 - 1470) about 1465-1470

Initial O: A Prophet before Nineveh. Unknown

CODICE AUTOS VIEJOS AUTO SACRAMENTAL. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Moses Reading the Commandments to the Israelites; Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350 - 1370); Paris, France; about 1360 - 1370; Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 34.9 x 26 cm (13 3,4 x 10 1,4 in.)

Inhabited Initial G. Unknown

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CODICE EMILIANENSE - MOZARABE - FOL 19V - SIGLO X. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

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PAGINA MINIADA Y COLOREADA DE UNA DE SUS OBRAS-S XV. Author: ARISTOTELES (384 AC-322 AC). Location: UNIVERSIDAD BIBLIOTECA. SALAMANCA. SPAIN.

RETORICA DE CICERON - T.II.12 - F1 - DEDICADA AL REY DON DUARTE DE PORTUGAL. Author: CARTAGENA ALONSO DE. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

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'First Page of St Matthew's Gospel', 15th century, (1943). Page of an illuminated manuscript from a Bible translation into Middle English, made under the direction of John Wycliffe. The manuscript is in the collection of the Universitiy Library, Cambridge. From "The English Bible", by Sir Herbert Grierson. Collins, London, 1943

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LOS CUATRO EVANGELIOS EN CATALAN. Volúmen de papel encuadernado con piel y tablas de madera. Realizado probablemente en Valencia, durante la primera mitad del s. XV. Archivo del Palau Requesens (Centre Borja). Sant Cugat del Vallès. Provincia de Barcelona. Cataluña. España.

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Opening of text, two-line gold initial on blue and green field with flourish in border, red and blue initials, rubrics, placemarkers. Coat of arms. Note that ink has run somewhat.. 1400 - 1499. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Cosmography

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Fol. 194r, Judith, historiated initial A, Judith beheading Holofernes, c. 1275-1300. Southern France, Toulouse(), 13th century. Bound illuminated manuscript in Latin; brown morocco binding; ink, tempera and gold on vellum; 533 leaves ; overall: 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.).

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Opening of Genesis, scenes of creation on gold. Placemarkers, book name.. 1200 - 1250. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

fol. 346v, Bavaria, Germany, 1402

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº111-F158R-TEXTO-ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES-S XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Decorated Initial P; Tours, France; about 845; Iron gall ink on parchment with tempera; Leaf: 46.4 × 33.7 cm (18 1,4 × 13 1,4 in.)

Initial O: The Sacrifice of a Lamb and a Man Pointing a Hunting Bow. Unknown

Initial D: Solomon with a Sword; Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; about 1280 - 1290; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 37.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3,4 x 9 3,4 in.)

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Miniature depicting two scenes 1. warring factions of Romans and Palmirians represented by a joust; 2. a procession into Rome with Zenobia paraded before the emperor as a prisoner. Includes initial, rubric, and border design., 1450. Women

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Initial P: Saint Paul. Circle of Stefan Lochner (German, died 1451)

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Illustrations from a historical book in the monastery library of the Strahov Praemonstratensian Monastery, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

CODEX JUSTINIANI - MS36 - F59V - DERECHO CIVIL - LETRA GOTICA - NOTAS AL MARGEN. Location: CATEDRAL-ARCHIVO CAPITULAR. Tortosa. TARRAGONA. SPAIN.

MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº15 - F26R - TEXTO - ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X OF CASTILE. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION, SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL, MADRID, SPAIN.

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Opening of text featuring a large letter with penwork, small initials, and line fillers, demonstrating a hierarchy of scripts. A large penwork feather is drawn in the border., 1400 - 1499

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MS B.R.20 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº274 - F48R - TEXTO - ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Page of the Bible of 42 lines (Mazarina) printed by Johann Gutenberg, 15th Century.

Pergamino Vindel. Finales del siglo XIII. Contiene siete Cantigas de Amigo de Martín Códax.

Joseph's brothers & corn sacks / c.1410

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Front page of Erbario Carrarese with a dedication to Saint Mark, manuscript from the Venice area, manuscript 1591 folio 44 recto, Italy second half of 15th Century. Text: In the name of the Father I tell the story from the poor man's treasury taken from the secrets of ancient and great masters of medicine.

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fol. 140r. 1390. Manuscripts, Illuminations. Spencer Collection

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