Illuminated manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Devotions for All Souls., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7136
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a Calendar (folio 8), possibly of the diocese of Liège, with entries in red for 'Die groet letanye' (26 April), "Franciscus ons h' vad" (4 October, duplex), and Hubrecht (3 November, duplex), and in black for Magdelberte (7 September, duplex); Mass for All Souls (folio 20); Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 32); 'Den corten souter van der passien' (folio 96 verso); Vespers for the vigil of All Souls (folio 166); the Hours of All Souls (folio 332); and a large number of...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius., 1310-1320.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.4 (ii)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digestum Novum' of Justinian accompanied by the standard gloss of Accursius. There is a list of the rubrics and titles of the Books on folio 375v.The manuscript was probably written and illuminated in France. Dolezalek suggests France as the place of production, rather than Italy, due to the formation of quires in seniones and the style of the illumination. Dolezalek has dated the manuscript to the 14th century, or possibly the 15th. Art...
Dates:
1310-1320.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna., 1330 - 1335.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.4 (i)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing the 'Volumen' of Justianian, as well as the 'Liber Feudorum', a work which is not normally included with the compilation of the 'Volumen'. The work is accompanied by the standard gloss of Accursius. Some of the illuminations have been attributed to Andrea da Bologna.The manuscript was written and illuminated in Italy, probably Bologna. Dolezalek has dated the manuscript to the first half of the 14th century. This view has been supported by art historians who...
Dates:
1330 - 1335.
Five leaves from a book of hours, England., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21097
Scope and Contents
The leaves contain part of the first nocturn of matins in the Office for the Dead, from Psalm 6, verse 6 to the second reading (Job 10, verse 4). There is a lacuna between folios 3 and 4 and two leaves are probably missing here.
There are two illuminated 2-line initials (folios 2 and 5) with bar borders in red, blue and gold. Small initials in gold and penwork throughout.
Dates:
15th century.
Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.
Item
Identifier: MS.7148
Scope and Contents
The diploma is signed by Antonius Paulutius, Vicar General to the Bishop of Padua, and attested, 1665, by Aloysius Baratti, Protonotary Apostolic and chancellor of the diocese. The designer's name is in the bottom margin of folio 5. At folio 1 verso is a portrait of the recipient in his nineteenth year, enclosed in an oval frame and surrounded by drawings in full colour of flowers and leaves and of a peacock. The surviving parts of the text are enclosed by wide borders containing ribbons,...
Dates:
1658, 1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Fragmentary devotional work., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7138
Scope and Contents
The fragment consists of seven gatherings (lacking a leaf after folio 47), and the back cover with a flyleaf (folio 56) and pastedown. As well as the front cover, entire gatherings have been lost before folio 1 and after folio 55. Surviving contents consist of prayers to the Virgin. There are a few decorated initials in red and green, and the rubrics are in red.
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.25242
Scope and Contents
A large choirbook containing the Sanctorale (folio 1), the Temporale from Christmas Eve to Corpus Christi (folio 75), 'In consecratione ecclesiae' (folio 136) and the Creed (folio 139). The Sanctorale includes offices for the feasts of Saints Peter Martyr, Antonino, Archbishop of Florence (canonised in 1523), Catherine of Sienna, Dominic (translation and feast), Vincent Ferrer, and Thomas Aquinas. The manuscript is illuminated throughout with large red and blue initials on penwork...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
'Gulistān' of Sa'dī., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3180
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the Introduction and eight Sections, in a small, clear Nasta'līq hand, not quite modern. Illuminated pages, folios 1 verso, 2.
Dates:
18th century.
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.
Illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘House of life’, fifth edition, by Dante Gabrielle Rossetti., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: MS.8126 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The manuscript was bound by Cobden Saunderson.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of 'House of life', fifth edition, by Dante Gabrielle Rossetti; with original container., 1898-1902.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.8126
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was bound by Cobden Saunderson.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning., 1895-1897.
Item
Identifier: MS.8127 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The manuscript was bound by Cobden Saunderson.
Dates:
1895-1897.
Illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; with original container., 1895-1897.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.8127
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was bound by Cobden Saunderson.
Dates:
1895-1897.
Koran, copied in a clear but undistinguished Naskhi script, probably in India., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1895
Scope and Contents
There is some poor illumination on folios 1 verso-2.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Manuscript, in a Nasta'līq hand, of Firishtah’s History of India., [Circa 1790.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3182
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is dated at the end in the 38th year of Shah'Ālam (circa 1790).After the Introduction (page 5), the Sections, headed in red, are:
(1) Lahore (page 27);
(2) Delhi (page 90);
(3) Deccan (page 428);
(4) Gujarat (page 798);
(5) Malwa (page 882);
(6) Farukhi Sultans (page 943);
(7) Bengal (page 961);
(8) Sind and Tatta (page 979);
(8) (sic) Jām Sultans of Sind (page 988);
(10) Multan (page 994);
(11) Kashmir (page 1005);
(11) (sic) Malabar (page 1048);
(12)...
Dates:
[Circa 1790.]
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.
Manuscript, nineteenth century, of 'Ishqnama-i Gulbadan o Naunihal', the loves of Naunihal and Gulbadan, a Dakkani (Urdu) poem composed by Ahmed Ali, circa 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.)., Circa 1785.
Item
Identifier: MS.5784
Scope and Contents
The poem is a complete versification of the popular Indian romance. It is written in double columns with six illuminated drawings.
Dates:
Circa 1785.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Two manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey: Persian astrological calendar, probably 19th century; and a manuscript of the 'Ishqnama-i Gulbadan o Naunihal' (The loves of Naunihal and Gulbadan), circa 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.).
Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh., 13th century-17th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7122-7149
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In addition to the medieval manuscripts, there are some non-religious books of later date, and a few unrelated fragments.
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
Nasta'līq manuscript, probably eighteenth century, of the history of Kashmir, by Narāyan Kūl, called 'Ājiz, composed AD 1710., 1710.
Item
Identifier: MS.3184
Scope and Contents
Illuminated heading on page 1. The author's name occurs on page 4.
Dates:
1710.
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.
Nasta'līq manuscript, undated, labelled on the outside "Na't wa Munājāt" ('Praise and Prayer')., ?18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3185
Scope and Contents
No title or author's name appears in the manuscript itself. At least one leaf seems to be missing between folios 1 and 2, for the catchword does not correspond. Something has apparently been obliterated on folio 1, as have stamp-impressions on folios 1 verso, 115.Introductory portion, in prose and verse, begins at folio 1 verso. A second part (folio 12 verso), all in verse, is divided into sections consisting of prayer and praise, which are followed by 20 religious discourses,...
Dates:
?18th century.
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.
Prayers and devotional exercises., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7139
Scope and Contents
The text is written in a number of sixteenth-century hands on leaves of paper of various sizes, some of which (folios 98-146 in part, 216-251, and 269-271) have suffered losses to the text when the volume was trimmed.The contents include 'Een regel der zielen leydende toter alder hoechster perfectien der doechden' (folio 1 verso), 'Een schoen exempel van eenen moninck' (folio 93 verso), 'Een suete herdencke op die pasien' (folio 103 verso), prayers to the Virgin and Child...
Dates:
16th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Psalter of Low Countries provenance., ?2nd half of 13th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7123
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Calendar (folio 1);
(ii) Psalter (folio 15);
(iii) Canticles of the Psalter, 'Confitebor' to 'Quicunque vult',and Magnificat (folio 186);
(iv) Capitula and collects for the feast of St Lambert (folio 204). Lacking leaves after folios 91, 104, 203. Red and blue penwork initials. Some names including Saints Dominic and Donatus have been added in a later hand to the calendar; others, including some of the additional names, have been erased. The...
Dates:
?2nd half of 13th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo., Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3058
Scope and Contents
The romance begins, 'La antiqua et diu observata consuetudine', and ends, 'Tu adunque Illustrissimo et Magnifico lettore vivi felice: et amia damni pensando habbi alcuna volta compassione: Vale'. The narrative is interspersed with letters, sonnets, and other verse. The manuscript is written in a cursive humanistic script of the early sixteenth century, probably influenced by Ludovico degli Arrighi.The title-page (folio 1) is surrounded by a border divided by gilt...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Two manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey: Persian astrological calendar, probably 19th century; and a manuscript of the 'Ishqnama-i Gulbadan o Naunihal' (The loves of Naunihal and Gulbadan), circa 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.)., Circa 1785, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5783-5784
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
Circa 1785, 19th century.