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This is a list of illuminated manuscripts. 2nd century Paris, ... Digital Scriptorium; Medieval Manuscripts at Syracuse University Library Digital Collection
It is almost impossible to separate Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Scottish and Welsh art at this period, especially in manuscripts; this art is therefore called Insular art. See specifically Insular illumination and also Insular script. For English manuscripts produced after 900, see the List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
This is a list of notable codices. For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.) More modern works that include "codex" as part of ...
Leaf from a Gradual, c, 1450–1475, Italy; New York, Columbia University, Plimpton MS 040A. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures.
List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1200–1399) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1400–1499) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1900–present) Lists of Glagolitic manuscripts; List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1500–1599) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1600–1699) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1700–1799) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1800 ...
A list of editions and their printings follows the compilation of tradition data and can be called up with a link. A component bibliographic database 'Research Literature about Medieval German Language Manuscripts' furnishes a complete searchable and cumulative register of academic references cited in the individual manuscript descriptions.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare, "to colour with minium", a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.