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unusual facts about illuminated manuscript



1420s in art

1420: Jean Fouquet - French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature (died 1481)

Anicia Juliana

Juliana's name is attached to the Vienna Dioscurides, also known as the Juliana Anicia Codex, one of the earliest and most lavish illuminated manuscripts still in existence.

Ælfwald of East Anglia

Cuthwine was known to Bede and is known to have travelled to Rome, returning with a number of illuminated manuscripts, including Life and Labours of Saint Paul: his library also included Prosper Tiro's Epigrammata and Sedulius' Carmen Pachale.

Codex Aureus of Echternach

The Codex Aureus of Echternach (Codex aureus Epternacensis) (Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 156142) is an 11th-century illuminated Gospel Book, created in the approximate period 1030 and 1050.

Eadnoth the Younger

It is thought that Abbot Eadnoth is the abbot depicted alongside a bishop (his kinsman Bishop Oswald) in one of the miniatures in the 14th-century Ramsey Psalter (not to be confused with British Museum MS Harley 2904).

Fortuna

The Wheel appears in many renditions from tiny miniatures in manuscripts to huge stained glass windows in cathedrals, such as at Amiens.

Genre art

Spain had a tradition predating The Book of Good Love of social observation and commentary based on the Old Roman Latin tradition, practiced by many of its painters and illuminators.

Girolamo Amalteo

Girolamo Amalteo, the brother of Pomponio, was instructed by him and gave proofs of a noble genius, which is manifested in his works of design in small pictures, which appeared like miniatures, in several fables executed in fresco, and in altar-pieces which he painted in the church of San Vito.

Hamilton Bible

The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.

Ingeborg Psalter

The Ingeborg Psalter is a late 12th century illuminated Psalter now housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.

Leiden Aratea

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 79, also called the Leiden Aratea, is an illuminated copy of an astronomical treatise by Germanicus based on the Phaenomena of Aratus.

London Canon Tables

The London Canon Tables (British Library, Add. MS 5111) is a Byzantine illuminated Gospel Book fragment on vellum from the 6th or 7th century.

Master of the Playing Cards

Many of his engravings, especially the cards, contain compositional elements that also occur in the miniatures of the Giant Bible of Mainz of 1452-3 and other illuminations made in Mainz between then and 1482, including at least one illuminated copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the copy now in Princeton University library.

Master of the Rebel Angels

The Master of the Rebel Angels had an influence on Limbourg brothers for the illuminated manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (around 1410).

Meddling Monk

Calling himself Thelonios, he used the illuminated art skills of the other monks to create a circuit to repair his TARDIS.

Moutier-Grandval Abbey

The Moutier-Granval Bible is an illuminated manuscript bible of about 840, which was probably written in Tours, France, perhaps specially for the abbey.

Rossano Gospels

The Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 18 (Soden), at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire.

Schuttern Gospels

The Schuttern Gospels (British Library, Add. MS 47673) is an early 9th century illuminated Gospel Book that was produced at Schuttern Abbey in Baden.

Simone Martini

Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome.

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

Every friend member is also given a personalized written Membership Certificate which bears an illumination of the patron saint and dragon known as The George, and is signed by the Dean of Windsor; and a college heraldic badge which bears the heraldic shield of St George's Cross.

Tiberius Bede

British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th-century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Vespasian Psalter

The Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A I) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated Psalter produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century.


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Gertrude of Poland

Gertrude inherited a medieval illuminated manuscript, known as the Egbert Psalter or Trier Psalter, that had been created in the late 10th century for archbishop Egbert of Trier.

Hedwig Codex

The Hedwig Codex is a medieval illuminated manuscript of the Life of Hedwig of Silesia, produced in the court workshop of Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg in 1353.

Isabella Breviary

According to Janet Backhouse, former head of manuscripts at the British Library, “the Isabella Breviary is one of the most valuable treasures in the British Library’s enormous manuscript collection, a work the reflects both the artistic and the political history of its period (…) this acquisition is one of the most important purchases of an illuminated manuscript in the history of the British Museum and its library.”1

Jaroš Griemiller

Jaroš Griemiller of Třebsko was a Czech alchemist, remembered for his illuminated manuscript Rosarium philosophorum.

Siirt

An illuminated manuscript known as the Syriac Bible of Paris may have originated from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have worshipped in Syriac, a liturgical language related to Arabic still in use by the Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the Nestorians along the Silk Road as far as China.