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tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations.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 154 Collections and/or Records:
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".
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Identifier: Acc.11821
Dates:
1607.
Illuminated congratulations to the Marquess of Lorne on his marriage.
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Identifier: Acc.7989
Dates:
1871.
Illuminated copy by G P Windsor of Sir Walter Scott’s translation of ‘The fire king’.
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Identifier: MS.23055
Dates:
1877.
Illuminated diploma from Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts to D W Kemp.
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Identifier: Acc.4781
Dates:
1891.
Illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘House of life’, fifth edition, by Dante Gabrielle Rossetti., 1898-1902.
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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.
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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.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
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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".
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Identifier: Acc.9375
Dates:
1923.
Illuminated memorial to James Ogilvie, 11th Earl of Seafield, by Graily Hewitt.
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Identifier: Acc.9289
Dates:
circa 1915.
'Iona Psalter'.
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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.
Koran, copied in a clear but undistinguished Naskhi script, probably in India., Early 19th century.
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Identifier: MS.1895
Scope and Contents
There is some poor illumination on folios 1 verso-2.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, in a Nasta'līq hand, of Firishtah’s History of India., [Circa 1790.]
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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.
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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.).
Manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
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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.