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tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations.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:
'Iona Psalter'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10000
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in black, red and blue. The KL initials, and the entries for the major festivals and for the feast of St Columba (9 June), probably intended to have been in gold, have not been completed. The feasts are fully graded with two entries for Saints Benedict, Augustine and Frideswide (12 February and 19 October). There are a number of English saints and also entries for the Scottish Saints Felan (8 January), Ciaran (4 March) and Finan (7 April)....
Dates:
4th quarter of 12th century-1st quarter of 13th century.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript now ends in the middle of the year 1297, page 297, 1.7 of H Rothwell`s edition; the remainder is British Library,Cotton MSS. Vesp. A.ix, folios 122-153, and Calig. A.xiii, folios 5-16. `Finis` has been substituted on folio 171 verso for the original catchword `Quidam Scottorum`. A letter of Felix Liebermann, 1887, on the relation of this and Cotton Vesp. A.ix is tipped in at folio iii.In the first three gatherings initials and headings are in red,...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Late 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.7
Scope and Contents
During the 14th century, a great number of manuscripts of the ‘Roman de la Rose’ were produced. Many of them were very richly illustrated, as this one would have been, had the illustration scheme been completed. The fact that so many manuscripts of the work were commissioned is accounted for by the great popularity of the text, which was at the time one of the major standards of the elite culture. At the beginning of the 15th century however, perhaps because of its outstanding success, it...
Dates:
Late 14th to early 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript of an incomplete copy of the verse drama 'Istoire de la destruction de Troye la grant' by Jacques Milet, composed between 1450 and 1452.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete, containing only the prologue and the first two out of four ‘journées’. There is also a folio missing between folios 8 and 9, containing lines 11-54 of the first `journée`. Three gatherings have been misplaced: folios 253-286 should follow folio 310. Stage directions in French and Latin are placed centrally, not in the margins. Written in one hand throughout. Three spaces were left for decorated initials (folios 1, 8) and there are a few large initials, probably...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript, probably written in Italy, containing the 'Quaestiones' of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena) and a medical work described as the sixth in a series of 'sermons', possibly related to the works of Nicolaus de Florentia.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The ‘Quaestiones’ of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena). This text contains those `de complexionibus (folio 1), `de equali ad pondus’ (folio 5 verso), ‘de etate consistendi` (folio 10), `de modo augmentationis` (folio 16 verso), ‘de malitia complexionis diverse` (folio 20), `utrum virtutes anime distinguantur ab invicem et ab anima` and `per obiecta` (folio 30; the two are not here separated), `de secundo modo equalitatis` (folio 31) and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Latin Bible written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.10
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 511) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning `Aaz apprehendens` (‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). A leaf containing Psalms 23-29 is missing after folio 238.There are illuminated initials throughout: preceding the first prologue and at the...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
'Livre de I'ecclesiaste ensemble les Lamentations de leremie. De la main d'Esther Anglois françoise, a Lislebourg en Escosse, 1602', being a calligraphic copy of the books of Ecclesiastes and Jeremiah from a French Genevan version of the Bible.
Item
Identifier: MS.20498
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is dedicated to Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, and contains his coat of arms (folio l verso). The text is written in a variety of scripts within etched ornamental borders. There are two decorative title-pages (folios 1 and 16), a portrait of the scribe (folio 5) and numerous small decorations and headpieces throughout. The manuscript is closely related to New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, French MS.8, which contains Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon written by...
Dates:
[?1601.]
Manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.2
Scope and Contents
The text embodies a considerable number of readings apparently otherwise unknown; some of these are clearly errors, others if emendations display great metrical ignorance, but some are of superior quality and of these a few are normally ascribed to scholars of the 16th century and later. See ‘Scriptorium’, volume 37, pages 122-125.The title page is surrounded by a border of cherubs, vases, etc., in red, purple, green, and gold, on a red ground; a coat of arms at the foot,...
Dates:
1495.
Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6
Scope and Contents
Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript on heraldry, written throughout in one hand of the late 15th or early 16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De insigniis et armis` by Bartolus de Saxoferrato (folio 1). The text has been printed by Sir Edward Bysshe in the notes to his edition of ‘De studio militari’ by Nicholas Upton, pages 6-17.(ii) `De studio militari` by Nicholas Upton, (folio 12). The text corresponds with that of Bysshe`s edition except for the omission of the sections `De ardea` and `De fasiano` (pages 175, 195). A passage at the beginning of book 1,...
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and the sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.21
Scope and Contents
(i) St Dorotheus: letter (folio 1; ‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’, ‘Auctarium’ 2116z, ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1613); beginning of life of St Dositheus, differing from the version below, folio 17 verso (folio 5); teachings 21 (folio 5 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1812), 18 (folio 11; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1804, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 504), 16 (folio 13 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1793, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 488); life of St Dositheus (folio 17 verso,...
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscript, written by Antonio di Mario, of Jerome’s translation of ‘Chronici Canones’ by Eusebius, with the continuation by Prosper.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.5
Scope and Contents
Subscription on folio 75 verso; ‘Ego Antonius Marii filius et Florentinus civis absolvi V. Idus Mai MCCCCXXVI quo tenpore ducalis illustrisque dominatio Venetorum simul cu(m) nostra repu(bli)ca Florentina colligatione facta pro earu(m) libertate tuenda adversus tyran(n)idem
Duce(m) Mediolanense(m) qui an(n)is iam elapsis iniquissime et iniuste contra dictam nostra(m) re(m) p(ublic)am Flo(renti)na(m) bellu(m) fecerat viriliter atq(ue)fortiter dimicabant Valeas qui legas’.
Dates:
1426.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the epitome by Junianus Justinus of 'Historiae Philippicae' by Trogus Pompeius, and of the prologues to that work.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.11
Scope and Contents
The epitome begins on folio 1, and the prologues on folio 163.The text is apparently contaminated from the [?] and [?] classes.Headings in red. A large initial on folio 1 in blue, red, and gold and a border of flowers and leaves in red, brown, green and blue; in the centre of this at the root is a coat of arms, azure three thistles on a chevron or. Initials of each book and prologue alternately red and blue (except that those of books xx and xxi are both blue and...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Dates:
[1890-1948.]
Microfilm of 13th-century manuscript of the 'Decretum' of Gratian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.435
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of 14th century copy of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century; and, late 14th century manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.454
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
English manuscript, 14th century, of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century (Adv.MS.33.5.2);
Manuscript written in England in the late 14th century by several hands of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough (Adv.MS.33.5.3).
Dates:
12th century, late 14th century.
Microfilm of 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Lectura Clementinarum', 'Liber Sextus', and part of the 'Lectura Decretalium' of Zenzelinus de Cassanis, as well as a 15th-century insertion of the 'Arbor Actionum' of Johannes Bassianus.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.174
Dates:
14th century, after 1328.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.181
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'Le livre des meurs du gouvernement des seignieurs', a translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum secretorum'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.245
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript of the 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ', a translation by Nicholas Love of the Pseudo-Bonaventure 'Meditationes Vitae Christi'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.833
Dates:
1445-1465.
Microfilm of an 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: Mf.Sec.MSS.1394
Dates:
1607.
Microfilm of Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1571
Dates:
[Circa 1460.]
Microfilm of Book of hours, according to the use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.533
Dates:
15th century.