Manuscripts

2,367 artworks

Section from Chapter 35 of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (Boreboluomiduo jing)

Cao Gongyi, 608

Prajnaparamita, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Unknown, 1000

Page from the Qur'an

Persia, 1037

Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript

Ajit Ghose, 1100

Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His Deacon Peter (below)

Abbot Frowin, 1143

Annotations of Sangō-shiki, Vol. 5 (Sangō-shiki Kanchū Shō)

Fujiwara Atsumitsu, 1200

Compilation of Waka Poems and Chinese Verses for Recitation (Shinsen rōeishū) by Fujiwara no Mototoshi (d. circa 1142)

Monk Jien, 1200

Suma, Chapter 12 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Monk Jien, 1200

Compilation of Waka Poems and Chinese Verses for Recitation (Shinsen rōeishū) by Fujiwara no Mototoshi (d. circa 1142)

Monk Jien, 1200

The Mayfly (Kagerō), Chapter 52 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Monk Jien, 1200

Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

William de Brailes, 1200

Book of Diseases Caused by the Stars (Shichiyō seishin betsugyō hō)

Monk Kai'e, 1204

Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book

Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop, 1215

Text page from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, 1219

Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, 1224

Three physicians preparing medicine, from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, 1224

Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial A and Initial A: Judith Beheading Holofernes

Leber Group, 1225

Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial P: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book

William de Brailes, 1225

Miniature Excised from the "Potocki Psalter": The Deposition

Master of the Potocki Workshop, 1240

Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial P with St. Paul Holding a Sword (St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians)

Johannes Grusch Atelier, 1245

Initial I with Elimelech and Naomi: Leaf from a Latin Bible

Johannes Grusch Atelier, 1245

Account of the Goddess Kichijōten (Srî-laksmî), from section 16 of the Golden Light Sutra

Monk Kenjin, 1260

Figure with Scythe, Illuminated Initials "KL" or "BV" recto, and Fish with Lobster Claws, verso, from a Psalter or Book of Hours

Anonymous Benedictine Monk/Scribe, 1275

Fragment from a Lectern Bible: Initial E[t fecit Josias] with Josiah Aspersing the Altar

Master Honoré, 1295