Manuscripts

2,367 artworks

Historiated Initial (P) Excised from a Gradual: The Nativity

Lippo Vanni, 1350

Zodiac from the Castle Water Clock (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Kitab fi Ma 'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices)

Al-Jazari, 1354

Initial C Excised from a Choral Book: St. Anthony with Antonite Friars

Giustino di Gherardino da Forlì, 1355

Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation

Lorenzo Veneziano, 1360

Fragment of an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (S): The Stoning of St. Stephen

Nicolò da Bologna, 1370

Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1370

Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1371

Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias

"Master of Noah's Ark", 1385

Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion

Nicolò da Bologna, 1385

Fragment of a Historiated Initial from a Choir Book: Christ in Majesty

Michelino Molinari da Besozzo, 1395

Vasanta Vilasa (a poem on Spring)

N. C. Mehta, 1400

Leaf from an Antiphonary: Coronation of the Virgin

Master of the Beffi Triptych, 1400

Demon in chains

Muhammad Siya Qalam, 1400

Section from a Buddhist Cosmology (Nihon koku narabini Shumi shoten zu) with text copied by Monk Ryūi

Monk Ryūyū, 1402

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)

Boethius Illuminator, 1405

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto)

Boethius Illuminator, 1405

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text (verso)

Boethius Illuminator, 1405

Initial D[eus in loco] with a Prophet Excised from a Gradual

Lorenzo Monaco, 1409

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Christ in Judgment

Boucicaut Master, 1410

Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto); Text (verso)

Boucicaut Master, 1410

Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Text (verso)

Boucicaut Master, 1410

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso)

Boucicaut Master, 1410

Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin

Boucicaut Master, 1410

Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew

Limbourg Brothers, 1410