illuminated manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Explications des Ceremonies de l'Eglise avec les Prieres
Collection — Folder ViU-2026-0033_001: [Barcode: X032687431]
Identifier: MSS-16953
Content Description
This collection contains a contemporary red morocco-bound calligraphic manuscript prayer book in three parts. The cover has elaborate gilt borders, and the spine has gilt compartments and lettering, with marbled endpapers. The first and largest section, Explications des Cérémonies de l'Église avec les Prières, contains prayers keyed to specific moments of the Mass, accompanied by twelve colored vignette illustrations. The two shorter appended sections are "Les Sept Psaulmes de la Pentience"...
Dates:
c.1765-1861
Explications des Ceremonies de l'Eglise avec les Prieres
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2026-0033_001: [Barcode: X032687431]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0033
Livre des merveilles du monde facsimile
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669174]
Identifier: MSS 16558
Content Description
This collection consists of a print on demand facsimile of Livre des merveilles du monde (BNF FR2810)based on the Marco Polo - The Book of Wonders. This one-of-a-kind reproduction is the only numbered large size format Book of Wonders in genuine calf skin leather." (with certificate of authenticity).It is an illuminated manuscript made in France between 1410 to 1412 containing several texts regarding commercial, religious, and diplomatic contact between Europe and Asia. The authors of these...
Dates:
c. 1410-1412; Publication: 2021
Manuscript leaf with a miniature of St. Margaret
Item — Box BW 19: Series MSS15093, Folder: 1 [X031674500]
Identifier: MSS 16355
Scope and Contents
Leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours in Latin with a miniature of St. Margaret, France, late 15th century.
Dates:
circa 1450-1500
Missale Romanum frisket fragment
Collection — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16225
Scope and Contents
A portion of a manuscript on vellum. It was originally a leaf from a liturgical manuscript, likely written in France in the 15th century. The leaf was re-used in an edition of the Missale Romanum, liklely in France after 1582, which used red and black ink. The sheet (of which this is not the entire part) was used to mask the part of the former, which had been inked red, but which were not intended to be...
Dates:
approximately 1582
One leaf of a French Book of Hours, 1250
Series — Box BW 19: Series MSS15093
Identifier: MSS15093
Scope and Contents
This is one leaf from a French Book of Hours. 14 lines of text per page, ruled in red, rubrics in red, gothic script, with illuminated initials and extenders. Possibly from Amiens.
Dates:
1250
Qur'an
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X030899315], Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 15943
Scope and Contents
Qur'an, 1849, 0.03 cubic feet, housed in contemporary gilded red morocco with flap, and finely calligraphed in Naskh script.
Dates:
1849
Anonymous illustrated manuscript of Walter Scott's Marmion
Collection — Box BW 42, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16130
Content Description
Bound illustrated manuscript of Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, mid- to -late nineteenth century.
Dates:
Probably mid- to late-19th century.
Johann Georg Weidenkeller album amicorum
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16877
Scope and Contents
Album amicorums were an early friendship and autograph book. This volume is bound in contemporary calf skin with a gilt embossed plate on both covers and the bookbinder's mark WL; all edges are gilt. It is in a modern slipcase. The manuscript is ink on paper comprised of 173 leaves with twenty-eight miniatures in gouache including one full-page allegorical depiction on the verso of the first leaf, twenty-four coats of arms (two mounted) mostly with motto and entry, two full-page depictions...
Dates:
1605 - 1620