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Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Byzantine
ca. 1100
Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Ottonian
1000–1100
Gospel Book (so-called Small Bernward Gospel)
Northeast French and German (Hildesheim)
last third 9th century (Mss)/ca. 1000 (front cover - second half 12th century)
Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal
French
ca. 1270–80
Illuminated Psalter
Byzantine
late 1100s
Manuscript Leaf from a Royal Psalter
British
13th century
Precious Gospels of Bernward (front and back covers)
German (Hildesheim)
ca. 1015/refurbished ca. 1194
Spanish Translation of Saint Augustine's "City of God"
Cano de Aranda
1446–82
A Medieval Bakery, from the Book of Problems of Pseudo-Aristotle, translated into the French by Évrart de Conty
Master of the Second Roman de la Rose of the Duke of Berry,
ca. 1400
Beaker
German
15th century
Nine illustrated folios from a Gandavyuha-sutra manuscript
Nepal
late 11th–early 12th century
Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi
`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
late 15th century
Ashburnham Pentateuch
Late Roman (Rome or North Africa)
late 6th–early 7th century
Ratmann Sacramentary (front cover)
German (Hildesheim, St. Michael's)
1159/restored 1400
Saint John on Patmos
French
ca. 1450–1500
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
dated 621 AH/1224 CE
"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
ca. 1400
Page from a Mahzor (reused in the binding of a printed edition of Four Books of Sentences by Peter Lombard)
first half 14th century (Mahzor); 1475–76 (printed book)
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Christ in Majesty with Angels and the Angel of God Directs Saint John to Write the Book of Revelation
Spanish
ca. 1180
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Spanish
ca. 1180
Manuscript Illumination with Joseph Sold by His Brothers in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary
Giovanni Pietro da Cemmo
ca. 1490
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1525
The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons
Jean Fouquet
ca. 1452–1460
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers
1405–1408/1409
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle
ca. 1324–28
The Cloisters Apocalypse
French
ca. 1330
Manuscript Case
European (Medieval style)
19th century
Section from a Qur'an Manuscript
ca. 1300
Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary
Nerius
ca. 1320
Manuscript Leaf with Saint Thomas, from a Book of Hours
Netherlandish
ca. 1500
Manuscript Leaf with the Celebration of a Mass in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius
second half 15th century
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Opening of the Fifth Seal
Spanish
ca. 1180
Manuscript Illumination with Adoration of the Magi
Netherlandish
ca. 1515–25
Manuscript Illumination with Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Netherlandish
ca. 1515
Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Franciscan Breviary
mid-15th century
Spanish Translation of Saint Augustine's "City of God"
Cano de Aranda
1446–82
Spanish Translation of Saint Augustine's "City of God"
Cano de Aranda
1446–82
Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi
Spanish
ca. 1180
Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England
British
1466–67
Book of Hours
Simon Bening
ca. 1530–35