Medieval Religious Manuscripts

Illuminated manuscripts illustrating religious scenes, parables, and historical events from medieval times, rich in detail and color.

Holy Saturday Scroll: A Parable Illustration 11th C. Manuscripts

David in Prayer; Paris, France; 1544; Tempera colors and gold paint on uterine parchment; Leaf: 14.3 x 8.1 cm (5 5,8 x 3 3,16 in.)

Josaphat Speaks to the Nobles.

This colored woodcut by Peter Berger, created in 1488, depicts Saint Apollonius distributing bread. The scene reflects the saint's acts of charity, rendered in the detailed style of 15th-century German printmaking.

Scribes, fresco in the church of Saint Mary of the Assumption, Armeno, Piedmont, Italy, 16th century.

The King Arthur ordering the banquet preparation for Knights of the Round Table. Manuscript. Roman the Tristan. 15th century. French.

Life of Saint Mauro. 12th c. Saint Mauro hits Gaidulfo, count of Anjou, because he chases Moors. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE. AUBE. Troyes. Bibliothque Municipale (Municipal Library).

Colored woodcut 'Saint Alexius' by an anonymous artist, depicting the saint in traditional iconographic style.

The Magi Approaching Herod. Unknown

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. On the remark if it would be better to sell the ointments and give the money to the poors, Jesus says: He and the poors will always be near them. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.

Trinity. Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. One God in three persons. Minitature of Roman de la Rose. 16th century. France.

Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Pilate with an inscription where reads: Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews (INRI). In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written by Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476). Royal Library, Turin, Italy.

Rubric and full-page miniature of Samuel and Saul.. 1445. Schlapperitzin, Konrad ca. um 1445. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

LIBRO DE HORAS-TENTACION DE JESUS EN EL TEMPLO-MINIATURA GOTICA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS. LUCIFER.

A colored pen drawing from 1420-1430 showing Moses producing palm rods, depicting figures, gestures, and biblical context.

Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria. After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of England, with a cult centred at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of northern England. His feast day is 20 March. He grew up near the new offshoot from Lindisfarne at Melrose Abbey, which is today in Scotland but was then in Northumbria. He had decided to become a monk after seeing a vision on the night in 651 that St Aidan, the founder of Lindisfarne, died, but seems to have seen some military service first. He was quickly made guest-master at the new monastery at Ripon, soon after 655, but had to return with Eata to Melrose when Wilfrid was given the monastery instead. About 662 he was made prior at Melrose, and around 665 went as prior to Lindisfarne. In 684 he was made bishop of Lindisfarne but by late 686 resigned an

ELIAS PROFETA MINIATURA BIBLIA SIGLO XII EN SAN ISIDORO DE LEON.

La condesa de Bearn jura homenaje a Alfonso II de Aragón, prometindo no casarse sin su consentimiento, 'Liber feudorum maior', cartulario escrito por Ramón de Caldes, siglo XII. Museum: ARCHIVO DE LA CORONA DE ARAGON, Barcelona, SPAIN.

Oratores. Right way to pray. Miniature at Theologica Varia. 14th-15th centuries. Folio 6r. Vatican Apsotolic Library. Vatican City.

Charlemagne meeting with an ambassador . Illustration of the epic poem 'L'entr_e d'Espagne' of the 14th C., that narrates Charlemagne's expedition to Spain. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Mark's Library).

BIBLIA SACRA DE BURGOS - PANTOCRATOR - SIGLO XII - MS 173-F 12V - PROCEDE DE SAN PEDRO DE CARDEÑA. Location: BIBLIOTECA PROVINCIAL. BURGOS. SPAIN. JESUS. CRISTO EN MAJESTAD.

Emilia-Romagna Forli Cesena Biblioteca Comunale99. 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"

EMPERADOR DECIO TRATA DE HACER RENEGAR A SAN MINIATO - SIGLO III - PRIMERA PERSECUCION DE LOS CRISTIANOS. Location: BIBLIOTECA. Rome. ITALIA.

In this colored woodcut from 1488 by Peter Berger, Saint Apollonius is depicted going to the pagans. The print illustrates the saint's missionary journey, characteristic of medieval religious narratives.

Cristoforo De Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Mary brings an ointment to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. Codex of Predis, 1476. Royal Library. Turin, Italy.

Exterior fresco, Church Of The Annunciation, Moldovita Monastery, Moldovita, Southern Bucovina, Moldavia, Romania

Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting soldiers raffling the tunic of Jesus. In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written by Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Scene depicting an engagement, miniature from Saint John XXII's Bible, Latin manuscript from The Papal palace in Avignon, folio 103 verso, France 15th Century.

MOISES. LIBERADOR DE ISRAEL. " MOISES EN EL MAR ROJO " ILKUSTRACION DE LA BIBLIA DE NUREMBERG. ALEMANIA 1483.

Betrayal of Judas, c. 1530 Judas goes to the high priests where he betrays Christ. At the bottom marked: E. print is part of a book. Amsterdam paper Judas goes to the high priests where he betrays Christ. At the bottom marked: E. print is part of a book. Amsterdam paper

Carved and painted oak altarpiece depicting The Last Supper. Dated 17th Century

Jesus arrives to Gethsemane and finds a man possessed by the devil. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Zoroaster (Old Persian: Zarathustra, in modern Persian Zardosht) is generally thought to have lived about the 11th or 10th century BCE. Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Zoroaster as prophet. The term Zoroastrianism is, in general usage, essentially synonymous with Mazdaism (the worship of Ahura Mazda, exalted by Zoroaster as the supreme divine authority). In Zoroastrianism, the Creator Ahura Mazda is all good, and no evil originates from Him. Thus, in Zoroastrianism good and evil have distinct sources, with evil (druj) trying to destroy the creation of Mazda (asha), and good trying to sustain it. In some form, it served as the national- or state religion of a significant portion of the Iranian people for many centuries.

Montegiorgio (Italia, Marche, provincia di Fermo), chiesa di San Francesco, cappella Farfense. Ciclo di affreschi di Antonio Alberti da Ferrara, inizio XV secolo. L'ebreo nel pozzo

St. Martin sharing his coat with the beggar . (Sachsischer or Markischer champions; 1390)

A 1488 colored woodcut by Peter Berger showing Saint Antonius in the desert encountering the devil disguised as a beautiful queen, depicting a religious allegory.

Egypt/France: The assassination of Turanshah, 2 May 1250, from the Vie de Saint Louis, Guillaume de Saint-Panthus, c. 1335 CE

Scenes from the Life of Saint Robert of Bury; Norfolk perhaps (written), East Anglia, England; illumination about 1190; written about 1490; Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 11.9 x 17 cm (4 11,16 x 6 11,16 in.)

This colored woodcut depicts Saint Bernhard of Siena, showing the saint, halo, robes, gestures, and religious iconography, circa 1470-1485.

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

Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing Joseph of Arimathea, the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. 14th century

France, David ordering to kill the messenger announcing Saul's death, miniature from the Latin Bible (folio 65) of the Abbey of Mont Saint-Eloi

A colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist depicting the biblical story of the three young men in the fiery furnace, showing figures, flames, and composition.

CODICE ALBENDENSE - MOZARABE - FOL 167 R - SIGLO X. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Jews were condemned to wear two strips of yellow cloth, a precursor of Hitler's yellow star of David. Coloured illustration

Woodcut by Georg Lemberger depicting Paul with a messenger from 1st Corinthians in the New Testament (Luther Bible), colored in 1524.

Netherlands, Master of Antwerp (I), Christ preaches about separate, verso bottom center - stamped, Man and woman with raised hands. Christ and two disciples., print, picture, book illustration, prints, pictures, height 92 mm, width 123 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1485 - 1491, fourth quarter 15th century, paper, woodcut, hand colouring

King Avenir and Josaphat Converse with Nachor.

Christ pops into the Jordaan; How to use Jhesus Int Openbaer.

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui and Capac Yupanqui. Unknown

The good death, mourning the death of a young child, miniature from The Treasure of Wisdom by Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429), folio 2, France 15th Century.

The emir of Cordoba and his dignitaries. Illustration of the epic poem 'L'entr_e d'Espagne' of the 14th C., that narrates Charlemagne's expedition to Spain. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Mark's Library).

LIBRO DE HORAS - DESCENDIMIENTO DE LA CRUZ - SIGLO XV. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS. MARY MAGDALENE. VIRGIN MARY. JESUS MUERTO-CRISTO MUERTO-JESUCRISTO MUERTO.

Divine service according to the Greek Orthodox rite, fol. 275. 1460. Richental, Ulrich von, ca. 1365-1437. Illuminations. Spencer Collection

The Flagellation and The Crucifixion, from a Psalter. German (Braunschweig, Lower Saxony). Date: 1234-1244. Dimensions: 219 × 152 mm. Opaque watercolor, gold leaf, shell gold with pen and red and white ink on parchment (recto). Pen and red and black ink (verso). Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Amalric of Bena preaching. (Amaury de Bène, Amaury de Chartres;), died c. 1204-1207 AD) was a French theologian and sect leader, after whom the Amalricians are named. (14th C. ). Biblioteque Nationale, Paris. From the Grandes Chroniques de France. 1375-1380 manuscript

CODICE ALBENDENSE - MOZARABE - FOL100V - SIGLO X. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Jesus, resurrected, returns to lead the righteous's souls to the Paradise. In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written by Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Heinrich Sleeping and Saint Hedwig Praying; Heinrich and Saint Hedwig with Their Children. Unknown maker

A 1488 colored woodcut by Peter Berger showing Saint Antonius confronting the devil in animal form, depicting a spiritual struggle.

CODICE ALBENDENSE MOZARABE FOL 74 R - SIGLO X. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

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

Leaf from a Beatus manuscript. 'The Angel of the Church of Philadelphia with Saint John'. Tempera, Gold and ink on parchment. Taken from the Benedictine monastery of San Pedro Cardena, Burgos in Spain. Circa 1180.

Rubric and miniature showing angel and man.. 1445. Schlapperitzin, Konrad ca. um 1445. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Josaphat Converses with the Astrologers.

Mary Magdalene listens to Christ and repents, Christ sitting on couch, Mary Magdalene sitting on floor in room, the conversion of St. Mary Magdalene on hearing Christ preaching, Meester van Antwerpen (I) (attributed to), Nederlanden, 1485 - 1491, paper, h 94 mm × w 126 mm

Bayeux Tapestry 1067. Harold II crowned King of England, 6 January 1066. Harold enthroned holding orb and sceptre, Archbishop Stigand on his right. Anglo-Saxon Coronation Ceremony Christian Textile Embroidery Linen

Gothic medieval art in the National Art Museum of Catalonia,Barcelona,Spain.anonymous catalan, tables of the martyrdom of Saint Lucia (1300 AC).

The Enthroned Josaphat in Conversation with the Kneeling Theodas.

Flagellants or Brothers of the Cross in Netherlands town of Doornik 1349 scourging themselves as they walk through streets in order to free world from Black Death (Bubonic Plague). Chromolithograph after Chronica Aegidii Li Muisius.

An Angel Leads a Pilgrim to the Deceased Josaphat for Burial.

Josaphat and Barlaam Greeting Each Other.

Scene from the 14th Century, illustrated manuscript the Breviari damor. It illustrates the seven Acts of Mercy. Here is shown visiting the sick

The shrine of Saint Thomas of Canterbury: King Henry II being scourged in penance. Coloured etching by J. Carter, 1794.

Timur the Great's imprisonment of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I

France, Nativity, miniature from a Latin manuscript (folio 23) of the Abbey of Notre-Dame des Pres

Portrait of Mark in a Gospel According to the Four Evangelists. Date/Period: 1253. Manuscript. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on parchment. Height: 244 mm (9.60 in); Width: 179 mm (7.04 in). Author: Yohanes.

Spiegel Menslicher Behaltnis: The Virgin Mary Overcoming a Devil, 1400s. Germany, 15th century. Woodcut;

ANTIFONARIO DE LEON MANUSCRITO MOZARABE SIGLO XI - ADORACION DE LOS REYES MAGOS - EPIFANIA. Location: CATEDRAL-ARCHIVO. LEON. SPAIN. INFANT JESUS. VIRGIN MARY.

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. The guard telling to the Priests all what has happened in front of the Sepulchre of Jesus. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.

Turbulent Priest Description: Pen portrait of a man in clerical dress (probably Thomas Beckett) being hit on the head with a sword, from a book of treasury receipts. Date: c.1290 pen, treasury, illumination, medieval, sword, priest, receipts, clerical, exchequer, turbulent, thomasbeckett

Tablets of the martyrdom of Saint Lucia. St. Lucia before the consul Pascasi, Immobility of St. LuciaPulling the breasts, Beheading of Saint Lucia by Anonymous. Dated 14th Century

Mark the Evangelist/ Illumination/ c.975

The cultivation of vines, miniature from the Velislavovy Bible, Czech Republic 16th Century.

King David with Psaltery and tuba, organ, timpani and harpsichod musicians, miniature from Beatae Elisabeth Psalterium, Latin manuscript folio 149 recto, Germany, 13th Century.

The Expulsion; Norfolk perhaps (written), East Anglia, England; illumination about 1190; written about 1490; Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 11.9 x 17 cm (4 11,16 x 6 11,16 in.)

A colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist depicting the sacrifice of a calf, created between 1420 and 1430, focusing on figures, ritual, and ceremonial context.

Miniature of a monk and his mistress in the stocks as a form of penitents. Taken from a book painted for Augustinian canons. Dated 12th Century

The departure of the prodigal child Daumont. The departure of the prodigal child. Print.

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

"CONSOLACIONES EN EL ENTRETENIMIENTO DE CALIFAS Y REYES"ARABE 528-REY RECIBE A SOLDADO CRISTIANO - SIGLO XVI. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

BIBLIA DE LERIDA S XII SALMO 21. Location: CATEDRAL NUEVA / MUSEO. Lerida. SPAIN.

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

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Drying animal hearts. Miniature. Fol. 78 v.

France. Illuminated manuscript, Latin inscriptions, 9th century. From Saint-Amande abbey. Angels of the Apocalypse

BIBLIA DE SAN VICENTE FERRER - MANUSCRITO SIGLO XIII - MINIATURA DE LA VIRGEN - FOL 353. Author: SAN VICENTE FERRER (1350-1419). Location: UNIVERSIDAD-BIBLIOTECA. Valencia. SPAIN. VIRGIN MARY.

Monks and students in a library, 15th century. Artist: Unknown

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

Detail from a Psalter, Christ turns water to wine, c1140. Artist: Unknown.

Franciscans martyrs for the conversion of the world, miniature from the manuscript of the vernacular text La Franceschina, 16th Century.

The angel captures the dragon and Satan for 1000 years, miniature from Revelation from Saint Amand's abbey, Latin manuscript folio 12 recto, France 9th Century.

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