Medieval manuscripts

Book of Hours, France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329

This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

(#31) Compendium of early medieval Christian writers, including Gregory the Great, Dialogi, and Gennadius of Marseilles, De ecclesiasticis dogmatibus, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [north-eastern France (perhaps Lorraine or Alsace), eleventh century]

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Just as they are today, university students were big consumers of books in the Middle Ages. Learn about illuminated textbooks in law, medicine, and more.

St Albans Museum brings together medieval manuscripts originally created in the Scriptorium of St Albans Abbey from as early as the 13th century By all accounts the Scriptorium of St Albans Abbey was one of the best and most renowned...

This print serves as a color chart for Risograph printing, and infographic about medieval pigments, or just a fun display piece! This is the fancied u...

Rabbit blowing a horn. Among the marginal creatures populating medieval manuscripts musical animals are fairly common.

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