Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

Intricate miniatures from ancient manuscripts depicting historical events and figures in ornate, colorful styles.

The Court of Herod with John the Baptist chained at the instigation of Herodias. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

PINTURA MURAL"LA CRUCIFIXION" PROCEDE DE GALLIPIENZO S XV. Location: MUSEO DE NAVARRA. Pamplona. NAVARRA. SPAIN. JESUS. MARY MAGDALENE. VIRGIN MARY. CRISTO CRUCIFICADO. SAN JUAN EVANGELISTA Y APOSTOL.

St Philip the Apostle and St James the Lesser, detail, fresco, Parri di Spinello, Basilica of San Domenico, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Scenes from the life of St. Nicholas by Second Master of Bierge. Dated 13th Century

Emilia-Romagna Forli Cesena Biblioteca Comunale94. 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"

BIBLIA DE ALBA-MUERTE DE ABSALON. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Slovenia: A detail from the Danse Macabre (Dance of Death), a 15th century fresco by John of Kastav (Johannes de Castua), Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Rizana Valley

The Induction of Maurus and Placidius at Monte Cassino to be Instructed by St Benedict, 1530. Unknown Artist, North Italian School

Cantigas de Santa Mari´a (Canticles of Holy Mary). Reign of Alfonso X of Castile, "the Wise" (1221-1284). Medieval lady spinning wool. Library of El Escorial. Madrid. Spain. National Heritage.

Illumination of the Joust of St Ingilbert, made famous by Froissart, in which three French knights vied with 36 foreign challengers. Dated 15th Century

Testimonio sacramental de Duran Raimon de Casto al conde Ramon Berenguer I y su corte, 'Liber feudorum maior', cartulario escrito por Ramón de Caldes, siglo XII. Museum: ARCHIVO DE LA CORONA DE ARAGON, Barcelona, SPAIN.

fine arts, middle ages, Gothic, illumination, ""Cantigas de Santa Maria"" of King Alfonso X of Castile, circa 1280, chant 220, Codex T, Escorial, Madrid,

This 1488 colored woodcut by Anton Koberger depicts the discovery of the True Cross, highlighting figures, composition, and late 15th-century Nuremberg printmaking techniques.

Retablo de Santa Ana, detalle del nacimiento de la Virgen María. Siglo XV, Sant Miquel de Cardona.

Market Church of St Boniface, Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Madonna with child and two Saints. Bolognese, 15th century religious art work.

Pontius Pilate asked the Jews if they prefer to free the thief Barabbas, or Jesus. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

ILUSTRACION DE LA DIVINA COMEDIA - CANTO XXV INFIERNO. Author: DANTE ALIGHIERI. Location: BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA-COLECCION. VATICANO. Diomedes. ULISES.

Day and night Antiphonary from the 6th Sunday after Pentecost to the Advent, by Anonymous Sienese painter, 15th Century, illuminated manuscript. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Osservanza Basilica. Detail. St Francis receiving the stigmata illuminated page score notes music chant plant shoots panel double register men ass: donkey prayer view landscape trees blue red yellow green.

Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium (Costume of the Various Peoples of the World). Jean Jacques Boissard (France, 1533-1598). France, 1581. Books. Ink on paper with gouache, watercolor, and gold

Fresco titled 'The Myrtardom of St. Peter and St. Paul' depicts the crucifixion of St. Peter and beheading of St. Paul. Dated 12th Century

The Dance of Death 16th century Anonymous, German, 16th century German. The Dance of Death 334871

Count of Urgell Ermengol IV (1056-1092) the Gerp selling the Castle of Llorda his vassal Mir de Tost. Miniature of the Liber Feudorum Maior. Codex, XII. Spain.

San giorgio church, albenga, Italy

Holy Roman Emperor OTTO II 955-83 (ruled King of Germany, from 961, and Emperor from 967), receiving the homage of nations, from Gospels of Emperor Otto, 11th century German manuscript

fine arts, Middle Ages, Germany, painting ""Pilgrims laying wax figures as votive deposits on the grave of Saint Wolfgang"", unknown artist, oil on wood, Southern Germany, circa 1480, altar panel painting, high altar, Saint Wolfgang Church, Pipping, Germany,

Colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist from 1420-1430 depicting Moses praying for the victory of the Amalekites. Emphasizes figure, gesture, and biblical event.

This colored woodcut from 1460-1470 depicts the suffering of Christ, showing figure, posture, gestures, and drapery in a religious composition.

Richard II (1367-1400) King of England 1377-99, with his patron saints St Edmund (841-70) king of East Angles and of Suffolk martyred for refusing to give up Christian faith when captured by Danes, Edward the Confessor (1003-1066) king of England from 1043. Richard wears his badge, the white hart.

Wat Buak Khrok Luang, located in Ban Buak Khrok Luang Moo 1, Chiang Mai - Sankamphaeng Road, Chiang Mai, is a small and typically northern Thai Buddhist temple. It is believed to have been founded in the 15th century during the time of the independent Lan Na Kingdom (1292-1558), and was extensively restored during the reign of Chao Kaew Naowarat (r.1911-1939), the last King of Chiang Mai. The temple is chiefly noteworthy for its main viharn, which is purely Lan Na in inspiration, with a four-tiered roof and elegant naga balustrade entrance. The most remarkable aspect of the viharn is its extensive mural paintings, dating from around 1835 during the reign of Chao Phuttawong (r.1826-1846), the fourth ruler of the Chiang Mai Thipchang Dynasty. The murals, which are northern Thai in style with clear elements of Shan State and Konbaung Dynasty Burmese influence, are among the best in northern Thailand. They feature the jataka stories, past lives of the Buddha, and are interspersed with vern

Saints Cosmas and Damian. Altarpiece of saints Abdon and Senen, detail. Trasplant of a leg from an ethiopian - 15th CENTURY. Author: JAIME HUGUET (1414-1492). Location: MARIENKIRCHE. Terrassa. Barcelona. SPAIN. SAN SENEN. SAN ABDON.

Historic print, Joseph and his Brothers, Millstaett Manuscript, written in southern Bavarian Early Middle High German, 12th Century, from the Illustrated Atlas of the History of German National Literature by Gustav Koennecke, 1887

General assembly (Parliament or Stejm) of the kingdom of Poland meets to pass legislation. 1506

Berthold von Regensburg, around 1210, 14 December 1272, was one of the most famous preachers of the Middle Ages, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Hans Boehm or Hans Behem, Pauker von Niklashausen (born around 1458) (died 19 July 1476), Pfeiferhannes, Pfeiferhaenslein, was a cattle herder, musician, preacher and initiator of the Niklashausen pilgrimage of 1476. Account of the Pauker von Niklashausen in the Schedelsche Weltchronik of 1493, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown

The Shahnameh or Shah-nama ('The Book of Kings') is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c.977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran and related Perso-Iranian cultures. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and to some extent the historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The work is of central importance in Persian culture, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of ethno-national cultural identity of Iran. It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion with the death of the last Zoroastrian ruler of Persia during the Muslim conquest.

Painting showing the peoples of the world adoring Otto III, from the Gospels of Otto III. (View Larger) The Gospels of Otto III, probably produced in Reichenau Abbey, in the scriptorium headed by the monk Liuthard, for Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Circa 998 1001. Otto is shown seated disdainfully on his majestic throne, flanked by two priests with books

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

Detalle del Retablo de Santa Úrsula, siglo XIV. Procedente de la Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua de Artà. Author: MAESTRO DE PALMA (S. XIV).

Miniature of a hosting system. A hosting system consisted of cranes attached to great wheels worked either like a capstan or like a treadmill. The miniature depicts the treadmill type, masons laying chequered masonry and a man carrying the mortar up a ladder. Dated 13th Century

Joseph, in front of his brethren, who have visited him in Egypt, Leaf 66 b of the Millstaetter Handschrift der Genesis, origin around 1200, historical image or illustration, published 1890, digitally improved

Jesaja, Detail des Triumphs des Heiligen Thomas von Aquin, Fresko von Andrea di Buonaiuto, Spanische Kapelle in der Dominikanerkirche Santa Maria Novella in Florenz, Italien Jesaja, Detail des Triumphs des Heiligen Thomas von Aquin, Fresko von Andrea di Buonaiuto, Spanische Kapelle in der Dominikanerkirche Santa Maria Novella in Florenz, Italien Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 22614012

Medicine. Doctors visiting patients. 15th century. Woodcut in "Hortus Sanitatis" by Johannes de Cuba (1430-1503). Colored engraving.

A Chinese act of fealty with two witnesses. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

Chinese armed guards check a inspect a corpse in a coffin. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim alsihha تقويم الصحة ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

Bayeux cathedral mural decors, normandy, France BAYEUX, FRANCE, MAY 14, 2024 : mural decors of Bayeux, cathedral, normandy Copyright: xZoonar.com/Bayeuxxcathedralxmuralxdecors,xnormandy,xFrancex 22188541

Envy, from table-top with the Seven Deadly Sins

Colored woodcut by Anton Koberger depicting the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, created in 1488, showing religious figures in a ceremonial setting.

The Priests Carry the Ark of the Covenant. Jost Amman (Switzerland, Zurich, active Germany, 1539-1591). Germany, 1640 - 1660. Prints; woodcuts. Hand-colored woodcut

Elijah increases the oil / Illumination

Miniature from the Catalan version of the Breviary d' Amor, depicting the Seven acts of Mercy and the redemption of the soul. Dated 14th Century

The Holy Virgins Greeted by Christ as They Enter the Gates of Paradise. Artist: Simon Marmion (French, Amiens ca. 1425-1489 Valenciennes). Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 9/16 in. (15.8 x 11.6cm)Painted Area: 5 15/16 x 4 5/16 in. (15.1 x 11cm)Justification: 4 3/16 x 2 13/16 in. (10.7 x 7.1cm). Date: ca. 1467-70.This miniature, depicting the Holy Virgins being greeted by Christ at the gates of paradise, was originally part of a breviary, which is a book containing the Divine Office for recitation on each day of the Roman Catholic calendar. The image would have faced the opening lines of the text for the Common of Virgins. The location and orientation of the image within the book is confirmed by the text on the back of this miniature, which is the end of the Common of Confessors--a section that traditionally precedes the Common of Virgins. Marmion has divided the leaf into three scenes, each of which illustrates part of the text of the Common of the Virgins. Among the figures in all three scenes i

Cristofor de Premis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Jesus returned to Pontius Pilates. Codex De Predis. (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Jean Fouquet, Deposition from the Cross

Incoronata church, martinengo, Italy

Martin Luther, (Eisleben, 1483, Eisleben, 1546). German reformer. Doctor of Theology and Augustinian priest. In 1517, outlined the main thesis of Lutheranism in Wittenberg. He was excommunicated in 1520. Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Wittenberg castle church his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (31/10/1517). Colored engraving.

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

Master of Vallbona de les Monges (Guillem Seguer '). Altarpice of Corpus Christi, 1335-45. Jewish on the firebon, Church of Monastery of St. Mary de les Monges. Spain.

Noah's Ark 15th c. Manuscripts(- ) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Indian ships described by Marco Polo (1254-1324) in his Book of Marvels but more like the European Cog. Bodleian Library

Solomon and Sheba, Poor Mans Bible window, Canterbury 13th century

entrada de las tropas cristianas a la ciudad musulmana de Mallorca, fragmento de la predela pintada por Rafel Mòger, retablo de Sant Jordi , Museo dio...

William receiving oath of Harold. He stands between two reliquaries. The Bayeux Tapestry, c.1066 FRANCE.

Gengis Khan on his deathbed, miniature from Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Wonders of the World) by Marco Polo and Rustichello, France 15th Century.

Europe, Italy, Lazio, Montefiascone, San Flaviano church

NOE. PERSONAJE BIBLICO. " NOE Y SUS HIJOS " ILUSTRACION DE LA BIBLIA DE NUREMBERG . ALEMANIA 1483.

ORACION EN EL HUERTO, DETALLE DE UN SOLDADO EN EL RETABLO MAYOR DE LA CATEDRAL DE AVILA, SIGLO XV, CONJUNTO 128776. Author: PEDRO BERRUGUETE. Location: CATEDRAL-INTERIOR. AVILA. SPAIN. JESUS.

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

A colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist depicting a hermit with several people, illustrating figures, gestures, and environment, dated 1420-1430.

Dance of Death on the south wall, the equality of all people in front of death, Gothic frescoes from 1490, a highlight of medieval wall painting, by Johannes von Kastav, Romanesque Church of the Holy Trinity, 15th century, Hrastovlje, Slovenia, Hrastovlje, Slovenia, Europe

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

Bishop Odo and William say grace.The Bayeux Tapestry, c.1066 FRANCE.

Slovenia: A detail from the Danse Macabre (Dance of Death), a 15th century fresco by John of Kastav (Johannes de Castua), Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Rizana Valley

BIBLIA DE VIC, 1268, S.XIII. MEV. ARXIU EPISCOPAL DE VIC.

The harvest of Ruth, miniature from Latin Bible from Saint Amand's Abbey, Latin manuscript, folio 142, France 16th Century.

Inquisition. Instrument of torture, Wheel of Fortune. Colored engraving.

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