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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 manuscripts, Italian 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 as part of an institution's project to provide digital access to its holdings do not count.)

List of illuminated manuscripts

7th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Lindisfarne Gospels[1] British Library, Cotton MS Nero D. iv. c. 698 England, Lindisfarne Gospel Book Insular

8th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Vespasian Psalter[1] British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A. i 2nd quarter of 8th Century England, Canterbury Psalter Insular
Pocket Gospel[1] British Library, Add MS 40618 2nd half of 8th Century Ireland Gospel Book Insular
Royal Bible[1] British Library, Royal MS, I. E. vi. 2nd quarter of 8th Century England, Canterbury Gospel Book Insular

9th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Harley Golden Gospels[1] British Library, Harley MS 2788 c. 800 Germany, Aachen Gospel Book Carolingian
Moutier-Grandval Bible[1] British Library, Additional MS 10546 c. 840 France, Tours Bible Carolingian
Lothar Psalter[1] British Library, Additional MS 37768 c. 840 Carolingian Empire Psalter Carolingian
Aethelstan Psalter[1] British Library, Cotton MS Galba A. xviii. 9th Century England, Winchester Charter Anglo-Saxon

10th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
New Minster Charter[1] British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A. viii. c. 966 England, Winchester Charter Anglo-Saxon
Benedictional of St. Æthelwold[1] British Library, Additional MS 49598 970-80 England, Winchester Benedictional Anglo-Saxon
Aratus of Soli (British Library, Harley MS 2506)[1] British Library, Harley MS 2506 10th Century France, Fleury Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena Aratea Anglo-Saxon

11th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Harley Psalter[1] British Library, Harley MS 603 11th Century England, Canterbury Psalter Anglo-Saxon
Bury Gospels[1] British Library, Harley MS 76 early 11th Century England, Canterbury Psalter Anglo-Saxon
Eadui Psalter[1] British Library, Arundel MS 155 1012-23 England, Canterbury Psalter Anglo-Saxon
Prayerbook of Aelfwine of Winchester[1] British Library, Cotton MS Titus D. xxvii before 1032 England, Winchester Prayerbook Anglo-Saxon
Tiberius Psalter[1] British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C. vi. mid 11th Century England, Winchester Prayerbook Anglo-Saxon
Illustrated Old English Hexateuch[1] British Library, Cotton MS Claudius B. iv. second quarter 11th Century England, Canterbury Hexateuch Anglo-Saxon
Caligula Troper[1] British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A. xiv. mid 11th Century England Troper Anglo-Saxon

13th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert (British Library, Yates Thompson MS 26)[2] British Library, Yates Thompson MS 26 c. 1200 England, Durham Cathedral Bede, Life of St Cuthbert Gothic
Psalter of Robert de Lindsey[2] Society of Antiquaries, MS 59 1220-1222 England Psalter Gothic
Psalter by William de Brailes[2] Morgan Library, MS, M. 913 1230-1240 England, Oxford Psalter Gothic
Life of St. Alban (Dublin, Trinity College, MS E.I.40)[2] Dublin, Trinity College, MS E.I.40 1240-1251 England, St Albans Life of St Alban Gothic
Missal of Henry Chichester[2] John Rylands Library, MS Fr. 403 post 1246 England, Salisbury Missal Gothic
Paris Apocalypse[2] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Fr. 403 1245-1255 England, Salisbury Apocalypse Gothic
Trinity Apocalypse[2] Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 16.2 1250-1260 England Apocalypse Gothic
Oscott Psalter[2] British Library, Add. MS 50000 1265-1270 England, Oxford Psalter Gothic

14th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
The Romance of Guiron le Courtois[3] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Nouv. Acq. Fr. 5243 Last Quarter of 14th Century Lombardy Romance Gothic
Tacuinum Sanitatis[3] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1673 Between 1365 and 1405 Lombardy Medical manual Gothic
Ramsey Psalter (Morgan Library)[2] Morgan Library, MS M. 302 c. 1300 England Psalter Gothic
Tickhill Psalter[2] New York Public Library, MS Spencer 26 c.1310 England, Woksop Priory Psalter Gothic
Gorleston Psalter[2] British Library, Add. MS 49622 1306-1320 England Psalter Gothic
St. Omer Psalter[2] British Library, Yates Thompson MS 14 1330-1340 England, East Anglia Psalter Gothic
De Lisle Psalter[2] British Library, Arundel MS 83 1310-1320 England Psalter Gothic
Vienna Bohun Psalter[2] Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1826 post 1340 England Psalter Gothic
Liber Regalis[2] Westminster Abbey, MS 38 1382 England Royal rituals Gothic
Missal of Abbot Nicholas Lytlington[2] Westminster Abbey, MS 17 1362-1386 England Missal Gothic
Carmelite Missal[2] British Library, Add. MSS 29704, 29705, 44892 pre 1393 England Missal Gothic
Sherborne Missal[2] British Library, Alnwick Castle, Collection of Duke of Northumberland, s.n, 1400-1406 England, Sherborne Missal Gothic
Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours[2] British Library, Royal MS 2 A XVIII c. 1440 England Book of Hours Gothic
Psalter and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford[2] British Library, Add MS. 42131 1414-1423 England Psalter and Hours Gothic
Romance Collection (Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 254)[2] Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 264 1344-1400 Flanders / England Li Romans du Boin Roi Alexandre and Marco Polo, “Li Livre du Graunt Caam Gothic

15th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Bodmer Hours[3] Morgan Library, MS 944 After 1405 Lombardy Book of Hours Gothic
Hours of Elizabeth the Queen British Library, Add MS 50001 1420-1430 England Book of Hours Gothic
Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 1400-1425 England Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde Gothic
Psalter and Hours of Henry Beuchamp Morgan Library, MS M. 893 1439-1446 England / Italy Psalter and Hours Gothic
Abingdon Missal Bodleian Library, MS Digby 227 1461 England Missal Gothic

16th Century

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Name Shelfmark Date Place of Origin Contents Style Image
Houghton Shahnameh[4] Collection of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., s.n. c. 1530 Persia Shahnameh of Ferdowsi Safavid

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Backhouse, 1998
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Marks and Morgan, 1981
  3. ^ a b c Thomas, 1979
  4. ^ Welch, 1976

Sources

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  • Backhouse, Janet (1998). The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-4346-7.
  • Bologna, Guilia (1995). Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg. New York: Crescent Books.
  • Marks, Richard; Morgan, Nigel (1981). The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, 1200-1250. New York: George Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0971-4.
  • Thomas, Marcel (1979). The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0924-2.
  • 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.
  • Welch, Stuart Cary (1976). Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century. New York: George Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0812-2.