Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures

Two fragments of John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, manuscript in Latin on parchment [Italy (probably south ...

Bible, Leviticus, probably copied by a female scribe, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany (probably Kochel Abbey), c. 800]One near-complete...

Fragment of two leaves from the Liber Glossarum, an early Carolingian Latin encyclopedia, with remarkably early vernacular glosses in Old High Ger...

Cutting from a Lectionary with a Romanesque initial with bird heads, manuscript in Latin on parchment [probably northern Germany (Rhineland), elev...

Leaf from a Noted Breviary with a very large white-vine initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany, eleventh century (probably first half...

Bifolium with a large white-vine initial, from a copy of Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Southern...

ƟTwo bifolia from a notably early antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, first half of the twelfth century]Four leaves,...

Cutting from a Noted Missal, with music in Beneventan neumes, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, mid-twelfth century] Fragment from the foo...

Leaf from a lectionary, with readings for the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, mid-twelfth century] S...

Leaf from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, thirteenth century] Single leaf, with double column o...

Leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England or Low Countries, reportedly for English market, last decades of the t...

Fragment from a Missal or Breviary, with readings for the Office of St. Stephen, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France or England, l...

Leaf from a Glossed Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France (most probably Paris), thirteenth century] Single large leaf, with ...

Leaf from a monumental Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Flanders or Southern Netherlands (perhaps Tournai), c. 1275] Si...

Leaf with entries for the Interpretations of Hebrew names from a University Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France ...

Leaf from a University Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Bologna), second half of thirteenth century] Single l...

Leaf from the ‘Bohun Bible’, a monolithic Lectern Bible, manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (East Anglia, perhaps Cambridge), c. 1340s] Sin...

Bifolium from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France (Paris), c. 1400] Two conjoined leaves...

Leaf from a Processional, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, c. 1400] Single leaf, with single column of 7 lines of text ...

Leaf from a copy of a Homiliary with a text ascribed to Bede, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably England, mid-fifteenth century...

Four leaves from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France, fifteenth century] Four large leaves, eac...

Calendar leaf for December, from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges, for the British mar...

Bifolium from a Renaissance Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably Paris), c. 1520] Two conjoined leaves, ...

Collection of leaves from Breviaries and Books of Hours, in Latin and Dutch, illuminated manuscripts on parchment [thirteenth to fifteenth century...

Bifolium from a copy of Justinian, Digest, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, late thirteenth century or c. 1300] Two conjoined l...

Leaf from Cicero, De Inventione, in Latin, humanist manuscript on parchment [Italy, c. 1450] Single leaf, with single column of 28 lines of a thin...

Bifolium from Gerard of Cremona (also de Sabloneta), Practica Joannis Serapionis, a Latin translation of Serapion’s medical handbook, manuscript o...

Dante Alighieri, Commedia: Inferno X, 1-90, in Tuscan Italian, single leaf from a decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Tuscany), las...

Substantial fragment of a codex of Ugolinus Pisanus, Philogenia, in Latin, manuscript on paper with an apparently unrecorded example of a domestic...

An elephant and a unicorn fighting, on a cutting from an illustrated medieval manuscript [Italy (Bologna), c. 1300 (most probably last decades of ...

Aristotle, Poetics, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice)], late fifteenth or early sixteenth century] Single gathering (a single...

Grammatical text, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice), second half of fifteenth century] Two bifolia (4 leaves), each with sing...

ƟThe Four Gospels in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Byzantium, late fourteenth or early fifteenth century] 107 leaves, wanting pe...

ƟIbn Shaddad, History of Aleppo (Izz' al-Din Ibn Shaddad, Al-A'lak al-Khafira fi Dikr Umara al-Sham wa al-Jazeera), in Arabic, produced for patron...

Leaf from a large Lectionary, in Coptic with Arabic rubrics, manuscript on paper [Egypt, fifteenth century or c. 1500] Single large leaf, with dou...

Leaf from a pocket prayerbook, in Coptic, illustrated manuscript on paper [Egypt, fifteenth century] Single leaf, with 14 lines in Coptic main tex...

ƟReadings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on...

Leaf from a Bible (Pentateuch), in Samaritan, from a manuscript codex on parchment [Israel (perhaps Mount Nablus), probably thirteenth or fourteen...

Charter issued by ‘W[alter]’ prior of Thornholme, for John Malerb. (Malherbe), single sheet document in Latin on parchment [England (North Lincoln...

Charter of Hugh de Neville for estates in Denby, West Riding, Yorkshire, to Byland Abbey, in Latin, single sheet document on parchment [England (Y...

Doctoral diploma issued by the University of Bologna, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Bologna and probably Milan), dated 24 ...

Collection of leaves attesting to the dawn of the postal service in Parma, in Italian, manuscripts on paper [Italy (Parma), sixteenth century] Twe...

Collection of charters, wills and related documents, in Latin and English, on paper and parchment [England, sixteenth to nineteenth century] 97 do...

Illuminated geometric initial on a leaf from a Lectern Bible, in Latin, on parchment [Germany, mid-twelfth century] Single vast leaf, with a half-...

Bifolium from a large Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany (Rhineland, probably Cologne), first half of the twelfth ce...

Baruch writing, in a historiated initial on a leaf from a University Bible, in Latin, with another leaf from same illuminated manuscript on parchm...

Cato the Elder lecturing to Scipio Africanus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens, large miniature from an illuminated manuscript of Cicero, De Senectute, in...

King David and other sinners kneeling in prayer, tiny miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Sou...

Job on the Dungheap, large miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (Paris or Rouen), c. 14...

ƟCarta Executoria de Hidalguía of Pedro Guillem de las Casas in the city of Jaén, in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Spain (Granada)...

Ɵ Terence, Comoediae, in Latin, illuminated humanist manuscript on paper and parchment [Italy (probably Florence), dated 4 April 1446] 94 leaves (...

ƟVegetius, De re militari (extract), and Pomponius Laetus, De magistratibus, De sacerdotiis and De legibus, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy (...

ƟSubstantial fragment from a codex of Aristotle, Rhetorica in the Latin translation of William of Moerbeke, the Magna moralia in the Latin transla...

ƟGalen, Ars medicinalis in the translation of Johannitus (Hunayn ibn Ishaq) with commentary, here in Catalan translation, decorated manuscript on ...

ƟZacharias Chrysopolitanus, In unum ex quattuor, seu Concordia Evangelistarum, Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi, with...

ƟPseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Sermones ad heremitas, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Lombardy), dated 2 January 1458] 64 leaves, want...

Ɵ Substantial fragment from two Missals, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, c. 1400 and fifteenth century] Two volumes: (i) 17 le...

ƟThe Horwer Missal, written by Johannes Horwer for the Church of Schwerzenbach, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Switzerland (Zurich...

Ɵ‘Liber Extraordinarius’, a Festal Lectionary with Invitatories and Antiphons, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Milan), dated...

ƟBook of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern France (perhaps Limoges), immediately before 1439]...