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tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations.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 106 Collections and/or Records:
Colour slides of illuminations from the Hunterian Psalter.
File
Identifier: Acc.5369
Dates:
12th century.
Colour slides of the Hunterian Psalter, ff 15v and 17v.
File
Identifier: Acc.5368
Dates:
12th century.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Dates:
1567.
'Culross psalter', made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Servanus (1 July), and Ninian (16 September), and in black, Saints Margaret of Scotland (19 June), Findoce (13 October) and the usual Cistercian saints. The calendar was published in ‘Kalendars of Scottish saints’, pages 53-64.(ii) Psalter and Canticles (folio 7). The Te Deum is omitted.(iii) Litany, including Saints Servanus, Blaan,...
Dates:
Circa 1470.
Dīwān of Ḣāfiz̤, with the introduction by Muḣammad Gulandām.
Item
Identifier: MS.3236
Scope and Contents
A Persian manuscript, with illumination on folio 1 and at the beginning of the Dīwān on folio 12 verso.
The binding is ornamented with paintings of flowers and birds on the outside and of a man and boy in Persian costume inside, at both ends.
Dates:
?17th century.
Dupuy book of hours, produced in Flanders in the late 15th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.18
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in gold, blue and red (folio 1). It includes Saints Lubin, bishop of Chartres (14 March and 15 September), Pavasce (16 June), Mello (22 October) and Maclou (15 November).(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) `Obsecro te` and ‘O intemerata` (folio 10 verso).(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the use of Rome (folio 15). Matins of the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are inserted between Lauds and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretals' of Pope Gregory IX; with a gloss by Bernard of Botone. Also included are short excerpts of works by Gratian and Raynald, Archbishop of Rheims.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was produced in France and contains a complete copy of the 'Decretals', or 'Liber extra', of Pope Gregory IX. The volume also contains two short excerpts; the 'Repetitio X.3.26.18' of Raynald Archbishop of Rheims and a passage from the 'Decretals' of Gratian entitled 'Scribitur ii. regum xxi. capitulo'.The contents are as follows:‘Decretals’ of Pope Gregory IX. Folios 1-247r.Folio 247v was prepared with a ruled grid of guidelines for text...
Dates:
Early 14th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the allegorical poem 'Le Chevalier délibéré' by Olivier de la Marche, composed in 1483.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is listed with eleven others in 'Etude biographique, littéraire et bibliographique sur Olivier de la Marche' by Henri Stein. It is also included in La Marche, Olivier de. 'Le Chevalier Deliberé (The Resolute Knight) ed. by Carleton W. Carroll, 1999. There are ten miniatures, each in a pillared frame. The subjects are the author writing his work (folio 1), the knight setting out on his quest (folio 3), the knight approaching the hermit (folio 5 verso), the hermit...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The Roman series of psalter collects. See ‘The Psalter Collects’. Each collect is preceded by the incipit of its psalm. Folios containing the collects for psalms 1-8, 68-83, 91-97, 104-110 and 146-150 are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Psalter of Saint Jerome. (Folio 16.)(iii) Litany. (Folio 24.)(iv) The verses `In iiij poyntis my will or I hens departe`, in a 16th-century hand. They are published from...
Dates:
15th century.
Fowlis Easter breviary.
Item
Identifier: MS.21247
Scope and Contents
A manuscript written in Scotland, which belonged to the Mortimer family of Fowlis Easter in Angus.The contents are as follows:
(i) Temporale. (Folio 1). It includes (folio 127) the Great rubric, lectiones, the office 'In dedicatione ecclesie' and prayers to St Christopher and the Virgin.
(ii) Calendar in red and black. (Folio 158). Entries in red include Saint Vigean (20 January), Margaret of Scotland (19 June and 16 November), Moloc (25 June), Blaan (10 August) and Marnoc (25...
Dates:
Mid fifteenth century.
Illuminated address presented to Miss Jane Hutchison by the United Presbyterian Church, Dollar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9581
Dates:
1896.
Illuminated address presented to Sir George Campbell of Edenwood by `the Mahumedan inhabitants of Calcutta`, with a translation in Farsi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12955
Dates:
1873.
Illuminated address to Mrs Lamont issued by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12580
Dates:
1918.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript by Nora Paterson presented to Robert Munro, Baron Alness in recognition of his work as President and Chairman of the Scottish Savings Committee from 1941-1945.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11854
Scope and Contents
Includes a history of the War Savings Movement in Scotland. In a fine maroon morocco binding by Henderson and Bisset.
Dates:
1946.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Esther Inglis, forming a summary of St Matthew`s Gospel, "Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini XXVI Ianuari, 1607".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11821
Dates:
1607.
Illuminated congratulations to the Marquess of Lorne on his marriage.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7989
Dates:
1871.
Illuminated copy by G P Windsor of Sir Walter Scott’s translation of ‘The fire king’.
Item
Identifier: MS.23055
Dates:
1877.
Illuminated diploma from Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts to D W Kemp.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4781
Dates:
1891.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.2
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of the City of God, executed in Paris in 1503 for the Cardinal d’Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen, and probably intended for presentation to his brother, Louis, Bishop of Albi. The manuscript was originally in two volumes, with the division at the end of Book X. As a result of this division, folios 149v-150v are left blank, but have been lined and ruled. There are two folios missing, so that the beginning of Book X is wanting. Laborde states that the work was probably written by a...
Dates:
1503.
Illuminated manuscript of piobaireachd of John Grant, "Salute to W G Burn Murdoch".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9375
Dates:
1923.
Illuminated memorial to James Ogilvie, 11th Earl of Seafield, by Graily Hewitt.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9289
Dates:
circa 1915.