Browse through our many listings of medieval manuscripts
As you will see in browsing through our editions, our medieval list includes numerous versions of the Book of Hours and Beatus Manuscripts plus documents that deal with travel, cartography, musicology, natural history and other topics; and works of Byzantine, Hebrew and Arab origin.
These are works that are stored in libraries and museums all over the world in such great repositories of knowledge as the Vatican Library, the Monastery of Escorial, the National Historic Archive in Madrid, the Bodleian Archive at Oxford University and many, many other locations.
Just a small sample from the hundreds of listings of treasures on our pages:
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A pre-edition offering of “The History of Alexander the Great,” a 13th century work commissioned by Philip the Fair, King of France, and much later the property of Emperor Napoleon. It includes 100 illuminated miniatures on a background of 24-karat gold and silver
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“The Menologium of Basil II,” considered to be the most important work of art among Greek manuscripts. Today this document is a major point of reference for studying the Byzantine miniature in the 10th and 11th centuries. Today, it forms part of the collection of Greek manuscripts of the Vatican Library
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“Mi'ragnama”: The 15th century “Apocalypse of Mohamed,” inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and stored at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. The magic that these compositions have is partly due to the Chinese influence on Persian miniaturists
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“The Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso X the Wise” stands out in history as the patron of the first European investigation in applied astronomy. From the collections of the Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
Search through these listings for that interest you by doing it via centuries or categories of learning.
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