User:Dsmdgold/List of Illuminated Manuscripts

Criteria for inclusion on list.

The manuscript must be illuminated. Illuminated is defined as any manuscript that is illustrated or sufficiently decorated. Any illustration at all will qualify a manuscript, however manuscripts that are decorated solely through pen-work initials do not qualify. Marginal doodles, especially those added after the production of the manuscript, will not usually make an otherwise undecorated or unillustrated manuscript illuminated.

The manuscript must be "notable". To be considered notable, a manuscript must be included in at least one of the following: a general survey of illuminated manuscripts, or a survey of manuscripts from specific era and/or region (e.g Celtic nanuscripts, Italian Renaissance manuscripts), or survey of manuscript of a particular type (e.g. Books of Hours) or survey of manuscripts held by a particular institution or set of institutions (note, this does not include exhaustive catalogs), or be a single manuscript with at least one monograph dedicated to it, or which has had a print facsimile published of it (digital only facsimiles published on the internet, do not count.)

List of illuminated manuscripts

Late Antique

Papyrus Fragments

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Romance Papyrus	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294	2nd Century	Unknown	Fragment of unknown Hellenistic romance
Heracles Papyrus	Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331	3rd Century	Unkonwn	Fragment of unknown Greek poem on the Labors of Heracles
Johnson Papyrus	London, Wellcome Library, MS 5753	5th Century	Unknown	Fragment of unknown Greek Herbal
Charioteer Papyrus	London, Egypt Exploration Society, s.n.	5th Century	Unknown	Illustration for unknown text

• Bear Papyrus
• Briseis Papyrus
• Hunting Papyrus

Codices

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Vergilius Vaticanus	Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225)	5th Century	Rome	Fragments of the Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil
Vergilius Romanus	Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867	5th Century	Rome	Georgics, Aeneid and Eclogues of Virgil.
Ambrosian Iliad	Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf	5th Century	Unknown	Illustrations cut from codex of the Iliad of Homer.
Vienna Dioscurides	Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1.	6th Century	Constantinople	Dioscurides: De Materia Medica plus other texts.

• Vergilius Augusteus (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Cod. lat. fol. 416, and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3256). 4th century, fragments of the the Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil.
• Calendar of 354

Early Christian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Vienna Genesis	Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. theol. gr. 31	6th Century	Syria	Book of Genesis.
Rossano Gospels	Rossano, Cathedral, Archiepiscopal Treasury, s. n.	6th Century	Italy	Gospels of Matthew and Mark
Ashburnham Pentateuch	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334	6th Century	Unknown	Fragmentary Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers (Missing the Book of Deuteronomy).

• Quedlinburg Itala fragment
• Codex Alexandrinus
• Old Testament fragment (Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, I B 18)
• Codex Brixianus
• St Augustine Gospels
• Rabbula Gospels
• Cotton Genesis
• Harley 1775
• Codex Argenteus
• Sinope Gospels

Merovingian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Insular

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Book of Durrow	Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 57 (MS A. 4. 5)	7th Century	Ireland	Gospel Book
Lindisfarne Gospels	London, British Library, MS Cotton, Nero D. IV	8th Century	Northumbria, probably Lindisfarne	Gospel Book
Stockholm Codex Aureus	Stockholm, Royal Library, MS A. 135	8th Century	Southumbria, probably Canterbury	Gospel Book
Book of Kells	Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 58(A. I. 6	c. 800	Ireland, possibly Iona	Gospel Book

Anglo-Saxon

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Carolingian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Godescalc Evangelistary	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1203	781-783	Aachen	Evangeliary
Vienna Coronation Gospels	Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18	Shortly before 800	Aachen	Gospel Book
Codex Aureus of Lorsch	Alba-Iulia, Romania, Batthyaneum Library, s.n.; Vatican library, Pal. lat. 50; Cover in London, British Library	Between 778 and 820	Aachen or Lorsch	Gospel Book
Utrecht Psalter	Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS Bibl. Rhenotraiectinae I Nr 32.	c. 825	Rheims	Psalter
Leiden Aratea	Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 79.	c. 816	Lorraine	Astronomical treatise by Germanicus, based on the Phenomena of Aratus
Gospels of St. Medard de Soissons	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 8850	Before 827	Aachen	Gospel Book
First Bible of Charles the Bald	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 1	845	Tours	Bible
Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14000	870	St Denis?	Gospel Book
Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura	Rome, St. Paul's Outside the Walls, s.n. (kept in the Vatican Library)	870-875	Rheims	Bible

Early Spanish

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Morgan Beatus	New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 644	10th century	San Miguel de Escalada	Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse
Tábara Beatus	Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Cod. 1097B	10th century	San Salvador de Tábara	Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse
Escorial Beatus	San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5	10th century	San Millán de la Cogolla	Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse

Ottonian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Gospels of Otto III	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453	After 997	Reichenau Abbey	Gospel Book
Bamberg Apocalypse	Bamberg, Bamberg State Library, Msc.Bibl.140	1000-1020	Reichenau Abbey	Book of Revelations and Evangeliary
Pericopes of Henry II	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452	1002-1020	Reichenau Abbey	Evangeliary
Salzburg Pericopes	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 15713	c. 1020	St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg	Evangeliary
Codex Aureus of Echternach	Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, MS 156142	1030-1050	Abbey of Echternach	Gospel Book
Golden Gospels of Henry III	San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Cod. Vitrinas 17	1043-1046	Abbey of Echternach	Gospel Book

Romanesque

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Winchester Bible	Winchester, Cathedral Library, MS 17	1160-1175	Winchester	Bible
Gospels of Henry the Lion	Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelff. 105 Noviss 2 and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 30055	1175-1188	Helmarshausen Abbey	Gospel Book

Gothic

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Ingeborg Psalter	Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 9	c. 1095	Northern France	Psalter
Berthold Sacramentary	New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 710	1200-1252	Weingarten Abbey	Sacramentary
Ashmole Bestiary	Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1511	c. 1210	North Midlands	Bestiary
Vienna Bible Moralisée	Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Vind. 2554	1220-1230	Champagne or Paris	Bible Moralisée
Psalter of Blanche of Castille	Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS lat. 1186	c. 1230	Northern Italy	Romance
The Romance of Guiron le Courtois	Paris, Louvre, s.n.	c. 1215-1230	Paris	Psalter

Renaissance

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Byzantine

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Joshua Roll	Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431	10th century	Constantinople	Book of Joshua
Paris Psalter	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS gr. 139	10th century	Constantinople	Psalter

Ethiopian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Armenian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Russian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Islamic

Arabic

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents
Kitab al-Diryaq	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Arabe 2964	1199	Northern Iraq	Pseudo-Galen: Kitab al-Diryaq
al-Mubashshi	Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 3206	early 13th century	Syria	al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik: Selected Maxims and Aphorisms
Kitab al-Baitara	Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 2115	1210	Baghdad	Kitab al-Baitara
Dioscurides	Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, MS Ahmed III. 2127	1229	Mesopotamia	Dioscurides: De Materia Medica

Mughal

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Ottoman

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Persian

Name	Shelfmark	Date	Place of Origin	Contents

Sources

• Bologna, Guilia (1995). Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg. New York: Crescent Books.
• Thomas, Walther (1979). The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0923-4.
• Walther, Ingo F.; Norbert Wolf (2001). Codices Illustres: The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts, 400 to 1600. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-5852-8.