Miniatures. Paintings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Paintings on a very small scale. The term is often applied specifically to small scenes in illuminated manuscripts or to portraits on vellum or ivory that were popular in Europe and America from the Renaissance into the 19th century. For paintings in manuscripts, the term "illuminations" may also be appropriate.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
'Akbar-nāmah' of Abu'l Faẓl ibn Mubārak al-'Allāmī., 1655.
Item
Identifier: MS.3183
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, apparently of the eighteenth century, containing Book I only (composed AD 1655). Illumination at beginning of Part I (folio 2 verso) and Part II (folio 418 verso). Miniatures on folios 27, 58, 94, 123, 130, 145, 158, 194, 197, 221, 238 verso, 254 verso, 265 verso, 307 verso, 365, 399. In Part II there are no miniatures, but several pages have been left blank, evidently for receiving them.
Dates:
1655.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Persian manuscripts, most of which are undated, but seem to be chiefly of the eighteenth century, and to have been acquired in India.
Book of hours according to the Use of Rome, written in France., [Circa 1500.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1903
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Holy Cross (folio 51);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 54);(iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 57); Litany (folio 67);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 73); Sequences of the Gospels (folio 98); Eight Verses of St Bernard (folio 102);(vi) Prayers, 'Obsecro te' (folio 104) and 'O intemerata' (folio 108); 'Les sept ioies principales de...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
Book of hours, according to the Use of Sarum., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3178
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar; later entries have been made as follows: Hyginus (12 January), Hilarius (13 January), Marcellinus (16 January), Anastasius (27 April), Felix (30 May), Stephanus (3 August), Calixtus (14 October), Linus (26 November) (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13);(iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 65); Fifteen Gradual Psalms (cues only for the first twelve) (folio 77 verso);(iv) Litany, followed...
Dates:
15th century.
Brigittine psalter and hours, apparently written for an Italian convent., 1535.
Item
Identifier: MS.1904
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar, with entries for the Translation of St Bridget, 28 May, her Deposition, 23 July, and Canonization, 7 October. (Folio 1.)(ii) Rules for finding the date of Easter; in Italian as well as Latin. The date of the volume is given by the following: 'Nel presente anno del mille cinquecento trentacinque corrte laureo numero, xvi'. (Folio 7.)(iii) Psalter (folio 9); the seven canticles from Lauds for the week, Magnificat,...
Dates:
1535.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12092/87-101
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates:
1681-1853.
Devotional work in a hand of the fourteenth century., 14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3055
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Devotions relating to the Passion of Christ, consisting of a meditation on an episode of the Passion, with an appropriate prayer, for each of the canonical hours, namely, matins, from the betrayal of Christ to the mocking before Herod; prime, His appearance before Pilate, the flagellation, etc.; terce, the cry of 'Crucify Him'; sext, the Crucifixion; nones, His death; vespers, the descent from the Cross; compline, the entombment. These are preceded...
Dates:
14th century.
Leaf from a devotional work of the sixteenth century containing prayers., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3057
Scope and Contents
Two miniatures in Renaissance architectural frames. That on the recto represents Christ seated at the well while the Woman of Samaria pours water into a pitcher for Him, in front of a landscape background. That on the verso shows the healing of the Nobleman's Son, Christ and the father standing on either side of the youth's bed against a background of curtains. In both pictures ornamental details, Christ's halo, the well-rope, etc., are gilded.The text is surrounded by a plain...
Dates:
16th century.
Miniature from a book of hours painted in the style of Jean Bourdichon.
Item
Identifier: MS.8999
Scope and Contents
The miniature depicts St Luke writing in his study, the walls of which are enriched with coloured marble and Renaissance decoration. The bull, his symbol, appears in the lower right-hand corner. The miniature is in a gold frame, the outer edge of which has been trimmed. Written in red capitals across the bottom of the frame is the text '[I]n illo tempore missus est Angelus Gabri[el]'. The verso contains Luke 1, 26-34 in eighteen lines of littera bastarda. Its left-hand margin has a border...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
Miniatures and historiated initials, chiefly cut from service books., 14th century-early 16th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25243
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Miniature of the baptism of Christ in an architectural setting, cut from a choir-book possibly from eastern Europe, ?14th century (number 1);
(ii) Scene of knights cut from a French prose romance, 14th century (number 2);
(iii) Two leaves from a Book of Hours, northern France, 15th century (numbers 3-4). The miniatures depict the raising of Lazarus from the Office of the Dead, and St James the Great from the Suffrages.
(iv) Miniatures and initials cut from...
Dates:
14th century-early 16th century.
Photographs of a miniature of Sir Stamford Raffles and of a drawing of Singapore., ?1823.
File
Identifier: MS.5406 (v), folios 22-23
Photographs of the miniatures in the early fifteenth-century manuscript 'Le livre de la chasse de Gaston Phébus'., Early 15th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9804
Photostats of two miniatures of James IV of Scotland and Queen Margaret, each depicted in an attitude of prayer 'sous la protection de son ange gardien', from a Book of Hours of the Ghent-Bruges school., Circa 1503.
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 38-39
Dates:
Circa 1503.