Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

A collection of richly detailed medieval illustrations showcasing biblical scenes, saints, and ornate floral patterns in vibrant tempera and gold on parchment.

Saint Geneviève; Unknown; Rouen, France, Europe; about 1480 - 1490; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 12.4 x 9.2 cm (4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in.)

LIBRO DE HORAS-NATIVIDAD. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

GRANDES CRONICAS DE FRANCIA (1375-1379) - BATALLA DE MURET (12-9-1213) - VICTORIA DE SIMON DE MONTFORT (1150-1218) SOBRE LOS ALBIGENSES. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France. PEDRO II EL CATOLICO. MONTFORT CONDE DE. MONTFORT SIMON DE. PEDRO II OF ARAGÓN (1178-1213).

Saint George and the Dragon; Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 - about 1450); or England; about 1430 - 1440; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 12.1 x 9.2 cm (4 3,4 x 3 5,8 in.)

The Virgin and Child with Angels; Lieven van Lathem, Flemish, about 1430 - 1493, active 1454 - 1493; Ghent (written), Belgium, Europe; about 1471; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 12.4 x 9.2 cm (4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in.)

Men with Shields and Weapons; Thérouanne , France (formerly Flanders); fourth quarter of 13th century (after 1277); Tempera colors, pen and ink, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 23.3 × 16.4 cm (9 3,16 × 6 7,16 in.)

Illustration from Froissart's Chronicles by Loyset Liedet showing the Siege of Meaux 1358. Gaston Febus, count of Foix (Gaston III) re-takes the city of Meaux. On June 9, 1358, several hundred rebellious peasants undertook the siege of the fortress of the Market at Meaux, where Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of the Dauphin Charles, had taken refuge with several other noble ladies. The Count of Foix, Gaston Febus, and the Capital de Buch, Jean de Grailly, put an end to the exactions of the rebels and de

Historical print from the 19th century, from a manuscript dating from the 15th century, Raoul Lefevre also known as Raoul Le Fevre presenting his book L'Histoire de Jason to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, 1396 - 1467

The Building of the Temple of Solomon. Illustration in Flavius Josephus "Antiquities of the Jews" (Antiquitatum Iudaicarum), Fouquet, Jean (1420-1481)

Book of Hours. Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 - about 1450)

Saint Barbara; Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 - about 1450); France; about 1430 - 1440; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 12.1 x 9.2 cm (4 3,4 x 3 5,8 in.)

Almodis De La Marca (Ë-1071). Countess of Barcelona, wife of RamÑn Berenguer I.; Ramon Berenguer I (1023-1076). Count of Barcelona and Girona (1035-1076). Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer I and his wife Almodis de la Marca. Page 182 of the book 'Llibre de Franqueses i Privilegis del Regne de Mallorca' (Truth and Privilege in Majorca's reign). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. BALEARES. MALLORCA. Palma de Mallorca. Archive of the Kingdom of Majorca.

Copper engraving by Meister mit den Blumenrahmen depicting the triumph over all temptations in a death lesson from Ars Moriendi, created in the second third of the 15th century.

CABALLERO SE DESPIDE DE UNAS DAMAS - MINIATURA GOTICA - SIGLO XIV. Author: GEOFFREY LUTTRELL (1276-1345). Location: BRITISH MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

The Entombment; Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 - about 1450); or England; about 1430 - 1440; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 12.1 x 9.2 cm (4 3,4 x 3 5,8 in.)

Miniature from Jean de Gerson's Devotions (Miroir d'Humilite'), manuscript, 1462, France.

Theater with allegorical show at the Grote Markt, 1578. The scene arranged at the Grote Markt with an allegorical representation from the story of Scipio, 1578. Theater performance during the arrival of Matthias in Brussels, January 18, 1578.

Miniature from a Book of Hours: proclamation to the shepherds, draughtsman: anonymous, 1475 - 1500, parchment (animal material), brush, h 94 mm × w 65 mm

Trojan War. Siege and assault on the city of Troy. Picture of the 'La crÑnica troyana: en la que se contine la total y amentable destrucciÑn de la nombrada Troya' by Guido delle Colone (Sevilla: Casa Jàcome Cromberger; 1545). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Judas Receiving the Thirty Pieces of Silver; Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561); Bruges, Belgium; about 1525-1530; Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 16.8 × 11.4 cm (6 5,8 × 4 1,2 in.)

Miniatura del Libro de los Feudos de la Cerdaña 'Liber Feudorum Ceritaniae'. Siglo XII.

The dog-headed inhabitants of the island of Seilon (Ceylon)trading with , spices (Kynokephalen), From Livre des Merveilles du Monde, (The Travels of Marco Polo), Studio of the Boucicaut Master, c.1412, Illuminated manuscript, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

England: King Alfred the Great (r. 871 - 899), miniature, Royal MS 14B VI (Royal Genealogy, British Library), c. 1300 - 1340

England, Middlesex, London,Kingston-upon-Thames, Hampton Court Palace, Henry VIII's Apartments, The Great Watching Chamber, Tapestry depicting Court Life

Libro de Horas de Luis de Orleans: San Marcos V98. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE RUSIA SAN PETERS RUSIA.

CODICE - SIGLO XIII. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France.

Jean Fouquet/ Banquet in Simon's House

Cauterizing wounds, miniature from The Surgery of Master Rogerius by Roggerio dei Frugardi or Rogerius Salernitanus, Latin manuscript, France 14th century.

Italy, Emilia Romagna region, Ravenna, Basilica of San Vitale, mosaics, detail

Canterbury Tales: The Merchant (Ellesmere Chaucer), ca. 1400, Artist Unknown, Illuminated manuscript, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

fine arts, middle ages, Gothic, illumination, Codex Manesse, Zurich, 1305 - 1340, Rudolf von Rotenburg (circa 1257), covering colour on vellum, University of Heidelberg Library, wall, horse, lady, knight, winner, crown, tournament, flag, fashion, cloth,

Conversion of Hermogenes/Illumin./c.1410

Maccabes / Book ill. / French C13th

Vasco da Lucena Giving his Work to Charles the Bold; Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation and assistant (Flemish, active 3rd quarter of 15th century); Bruges (illuminated), Belgium; about 1470 - 1475; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment; Ms. Ludwig XV 8, fol. 2v

Llangattock Hours.

Christ Appearing to His Mother After His Resurrection from Leven Christi (Life of Christ), Plate 42 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century Original 1488 Flanders. Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso), on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat . Unknown artist (Illustrator)

"Do Not Have Swallows under the Same Roof" fol. 40 recto. Dated: c. 1512/1514. Dimensions: overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: French early 16th century.

The Crossing of the Red Sea; Follower of Hans Schilling, German, active 1459 - 1467, from the Workshop of Diebold Lauber, German, active 1427 - 1467; Hagenau, France (formerly Germany), Alsace, Europe; 1469; Ink, colored washes, and tempera colors on paper; Leaf: 28.6 x 20.3 cm (11 1/4 x 8 in.)

The Crucifixion; Simon Bening, Flemish, about 1483 - 1561; Bruges, Belgium, Europe; about 1525 - 1530; Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 16.8 x 11.4 cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

MARGARET OF ANGOULEME (1492-1549). Queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre (1527-1549). Spanish clergyman and saint. French school (16th c.). Miniature Painting. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly. Mus_e Cond_ (Cond_ Museum).

Harvest Time, by Limbourg Brothers, 15th Century, 1385-1416

Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250). King of Sicily (1197-1250), emperor and king of Germania (1220-1250). Titular king of Jerusalem (1227). He led the Sixth Crusade and captured Jerusalem. Wedding of Frederick II with Isabella of England (sister of King Edward I of England) in 1235. Miniature.

Signing of the Treaty of Conflans, miniature from a manuscript from the Rouen School, France 16th Century.

Medieval era. Medical surgeon examining a patient´s thorax. 15th century. Anatomy of Guy of Pavia, 1345. Anonymous artist. Conde Museum. Chantilly. France.

This colored woodcut by Thomas Ochsenbrunner, created in 1494, depicts Servius, showing historical figures and composition with detailed artistic representation.

JEAN FROISSART - French chronicler presents his book to Richard II. Date: CIRCA 1337 - CIRCA 1410

COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS-FOLIO 138 V, EL SEXTO ANGEL DERRAMA SU COPA SOBRE EL GRAN RIO EUFRATES. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: CATEDRAL-BIBLIOTECA. BURGO DE OSMA. Soria. SPAIN. ARCANGEL ZACHARIEL.

fol. 60r, 1390

ALFONSO VI (1040-1109). Rey de León (1065-1109) y Castilla (1072-1109). Hijo segundo de Fernando I y su esposa Sancha. RAMON BERENGUER I "El Vell" (h.1023-1076). Conde de Barcelona y Girona (1035-1076), de Olérdola (1049-76) y de Ausona (1054-76). Hijo de Berenguer Ramon I y Sancha de Castilla. Miniatura del s.XI del manuscrito "SEMBLANZAS DE REYES". Biblioteca Nacional. Madrid. España.

Craftsmen by Cristoforo Majorana, Watercolor on parchment, 1485-1499, active circa 1480-1494, Usa, California, The Huntington, 16,6x9,3

Stone Cutter - The Working World Artist Unknown Fresco Palazzo della Ragione, Padua

RABANUS, Maurus (c. 780 - 856). De universo or De rerum naturis. 842 - 847. Codex 132. Book XVI. Chapter I. Construction of a tower. Edition of the 11th century from the original Carolingian manuscript. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. LAZIO. FROSINONE. Cassino. Archive of Monte Cassino's Abbey.

Prince Arechi seated on his throne, miniature from The Codex Matritensis leges langobardorum (Madrid codex Lombard Laws), manuscript, 11th Century.

ROTHSCHILD MISCELANY. Manuscrito fechado en 1640. El original se encuentra en el Museo de Israel, en Jerusalén. Detalle de una página del facsímil editado en Londres, escrito en HEBREO y miniado. Miniatura con la representación de un RABINO ESTUDIANDO LAS SAGRADAS ESCRITURAS. Escuela de Filología del Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Madrid. España.

Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. Aulularia. Act I. Euclio and Congrio. Engraving. 1518. Colored.

The Story of Lucretia, c. 1530. Circle of Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish). Pot-metal and white glass, silver stain and sanguine; overall: 71.2 x 51.2 cm (28 1/16 x 20 3/16 in.).

Life and death by Coetivy Master, Watercolor on parchment, 1450-1499, active circa 1450-1485, Usa, California, The Huntington,

The Tribunale della Mercanzia (Tribunal of Merchandise), miniature from Statutes of the Merchants no 6 by Sano di Pietro.

Boccacio, left, witnesses the stabbing of a king, anonymous, c. 1470 drawing. miniature The fate of noble men and women: Boccacio, left, witnesses the stabbing of a king. Based on Boccacios 'des Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes' (The Latters of Noble Men and Women) Loire parchment (animal material). deck paint. brush

Colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist showing a victim scene with multiple figures, created circa 1420-1430.

The king - presumably Charles VII - in council Date: circa 1450

The Abduction of Ydoire; Loyset Liédet, Flemish, active about 1448 - 1478, and Pol Fruit, Flemish, active about 1468; Written: Brussels, Belgium, Europe; written 1463 - 1465; illuminated 1467 - 1472; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 23.2 x 18.8 cm (9 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

REY ARTURO Y LOS CABALLEROS DE LA TABLA REDONDA - MINIATURA SIGLO XV. Author: ANTOINE VERARD (IMPRESOR). Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France. KING ARTHUR. ARTURO III DE INGLATERRA.

Flemish 16th century, illuminated calendar depicting peasants playing knuckle-bones and skittles in a town square.

COPIA DEL CODICE CALIXTINO REALIZADA EN EL SIGLO XIV - F90 - APARICION DE SANTIAGO A CARLOMAGNO Y PARTIDA DE EJERCITO HACIA ESPAÑA. Location: UNIVERSIDAD BIBLIOTECA. SALAMANCA. SPAIN. CHARLEMAGNE. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor.

Boccacio, left, witnesses the stabbing of a king, anonymous, c. 1470, The Fates of Noble Men and Women: Boccacio, left, witnesses the stabbing of a king. Based on Boccacio's 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes' (The cases of noble men and women), draughtsman: anonymous, Giovanni Boccaccio, Loire, c. 1470, parchment (animal material), brush, h 104 mm × w 78 mm

Emilia-Romagna Forli Cesena Biblioteca Comunale15. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 .. Medieval: Manuscripts: 1) Laurentius Rusius: "De cura equorum" (15th century) BCM S.XXVI.2 2) Paolo Veneto: "History of the Origins of the World through Henry VII" (14th century) BCM S.XI.5 3) S. Isidorus: "Etymologies" (late 8th-early 9th centuries) BCM S.XXI.5 4) Gospel Book (Evangeliario), Greek (10th century) BCM D.XXVII.4 5) Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographies, Hebrew (1348) BCM S.XXIX.1 6) "Somnium Scipionis", misc. (14th-15th centuries) BCM S.XII.6 7) Boethius: "De Consolatione Philosophie" (14th century) BCM D.XIV.1 8) Justinian: "Institutiones" (14th century) BCM S.IV.I 9) Bible (Old and New Testaments) (13th-14th centuries) BCM D.V.2 10) Giabir Ibn Afla "Almagestus" (De Astronomia) (13th and 15th centuries) BCM S.XXVII.2. Post-medieval: Manuscripts: 1) St. Augustine: "Enarrationes in Psalmos" (1452) BCM D.III.2 2) Herodotus: Histories (15th century) BCM S.X1V.1 3) St. Augustine: "De Civitate Dei"

BIRAGO, Giovan Pietro da (15th c.- 16th c.). Allegory of the earthly glory of Francesco Maria Sforza. 1490. Tempera on parchment. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Tempera. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery).

England: 'The Animals Enter Noah's Ark', ink and pigment on parchment, William de Brailes, Oxford, c. 1250

The two dogs cont.; The man and the shrew.. 1480. Aesop. Manuscripts, Illuminations, Miniatures (illuminations). Spencer Collection

Miniature from Magnus Eriksson's National Law in the Codex Aboensis, 1450, manuscript, Sweden.

fol. 103v, 1390

A man and a woman in conversation in the chateau of Saint- Floret, Auvergne (France) Date: 12th century

Constellation Diagrams; Unknown; England, Europe; early 13th century; Pen and black, green, and red inks on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with brown calf; Leaf: 24.1 x 15.6 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)

Biadaiolo Fiorentino. 1325-1350. Purchase and sale of grain in Florence. Illustration executed by a Florentine miniaturist from the School of Bernardo Daddi and the Lorenzetti Brothers. Renaissance art. Trecento. Florentine school. Miniature Painting. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian Library).

Month of August: Preparing the barrels, miniature from Book of Hours of the Duchess of Burgundy, manuscript, France 15th Century.

The Battle Between Arnault de Lorraine and His Wife Lydia; Loyset Liédet, Flemish, active about 1448 - 1478, and Pol Fruit, Flemish, active about 1468; Written: Brussels, Belgium, Europe; written 1463 - 1465; illuminated 1467 - 1472; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 23.7 x 18.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 7/16 in.)

"CONSOLACIONES EN EL ENTRETENIMIENTO DE CALIFAS Y REYES"ARABE 528-F19V-TRANSPORTE DE PIEDRA. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about mace. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Prophet King from a Tree of Jesse Window ca. 1260-70 German This half- length figure of a prophet king almost certainly came from a Tree of Jesse window that incorporated scenes from the Infancy of Christ, four panels of which are now installed in Falkenstein Castle, in the Harz Mountains near Germany's border with the Czech Republic. The original location of the window is uncertain, but it may have come from the church in Wurzen, east of Leipzig, in the diocese of Meiseen. Although the window appears to have been made in the eastern reaches of Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt), the king depicted is stylistically similar to works from the Rhineland. The panel is an eloquent and crisp expression of the "zigzag" style (Zackenstil), characterized by sharply angled and hooked lines, that is a hallmark of both manuscript and panel painting in the mid- and late thirteenth century; the period was heretofore unrepresented in our holdings of German stained glass. With its strong affinities to the Aschaf

Folio 67 from Guillaume de Machaut - Poésies - Remède de Fortune (BnF, Ms. Fr. 1586). It shows the Lover composing his complaint to Fortune in the castle of Hesdin with its walled park. Underneath, Fortune spins her (geared) wheels. circa 1350. Anonymous.

A colored pen drawing from 1420-1430 showing David delivering food in a field setting.

The Annunciation to the Shepherds (Detail) Book of Hours c. 1450-1475 Simon Marmion c. 1425-1489 French The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

MS.B.R.20- CANTIGA STA MARIA-Nº 289-F14-A-SEGADORES MADRILEÑOS EN ATOCHA EL DIA DE SAN QUIRCE-S XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Folio 87r, created circa 1390

The geographer Ptolemy with a globe, miniature from the Cosmograph, Ed Ulm 1482.

CODICE ALBENDENSE - MOZARABE - FOL 60R - SIGLO X. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

MISAL ROMANO-MAN 52-S XIII-SIGNO DEL ZODIACO-LEO-. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Horseback Rider in Black Costume: Capodilista Codex Manuscript Illumination Biblioteca Civica, Padua

The dreams of Henry I; illustrations in John of Worcester's Chronicle of England (CCC MS 157). The manuscript was written at Worcester Cathedral Priory over a period of time, terminating in 1140. The visions or nightmares of Henry I appear in the section for 1131, although the text was composed retrospectively and subsequently revised around 1140-1. royal physician Grimbald at Winchcombe, heard about Henry I's dreams. the sleeping king is confronted by representatives of each order of society, t

The money changers, miniature from De universo by Rabano Mauro, manuscript, 1023 Italy.

FOLIO 47 V - MUJER SOBRE MONSTRUO. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. SEO DE URGEL. Lerida. SPAIN.

Three minstrels - playing plucked instruments of the harp and psaltery type. Date: circa 14th century

Father and son. Miniature of "Le Recueil of Devotion." 14th century. Chateau de Chantilly. France.

Leaf from the Hours of Louis XII. Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457 - 1521)

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