<div><span style="color:#3f3a34;font-family:'Kievit Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Portrait of Saint Luke</span></div>
Illuminated Manuscripts
Lectionaries
Saint Luke
Full-page portrait of Luke in gold frame on purple background
Unknown
ca. 950
From The New York Public Library: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-e299-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
JPG, 551x760 pixels
Still Image
IMS-01
Ottonian (Germany)
Portrait of Saint Mark
Illuminated Manuscripts
Lectionaries
Saint Mark
Full-page portrait of Mark in gold frame on purple background.
Unknown
ca. 950
From The New York Public Library: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-e299-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
JPG, 549x760 pixels
Still image
IMS-02
Ottonian (Germany)
Christ in Majesty
Illuminated Manuscripts
Lectionaries
Jesus Christ
Full page portrait of Jesus Christ.
Unknown
ca. 950
From The New York Public Library: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-e299-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
JPG, 533x760 pixels
Still image
IMS-03
Ottonian (Germany)
Dragon
Illuminated Manuscripts
Lectionaries
Dragons
Detail of an initial-word panel Wa-yedabber (And the Lord spake unto Moses) inhabited by a dragon, at the beginning of Numbers.
Various workshops of St Omer (Artois) and Paris. Biblical illustrations (ff. 114-122, 259v-260v, 516v-527v) are attributed to the Cholet Group, Master of Méliacin group and Master of Honoré groups, Paris, 1283-1285.
1277-1286
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=56849
JPG, 1110x1500 pixels
Hebrew
Still image
IMS-04
Northern France
Tristan slays the dragon
Illuminated Manuscripts
Tristan (Romance)
Full page drawing of Tristan in armour on horseback slaying the dragon with his lance, with a magpie on a branch in the foreground.
<span>Alan of Lille, Isidore</span>
Tristan en prose with interpolations of Lancelot en prose (ff. 141-151)
2nd half of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=58822
JPG, 999x1500 pixels
Latin
Still image
IMS-05
England or France
Tristan
Illuminated Manuscripts
Tristan (Romance)
Detail of a miniature of Tristan battling fourteen knights of the Round Table.
Illuminated by the same artist as Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris
Tristan en prose with interpolations of Lancelot en prose (ff. 141-151)
4th quarter of the 13th century
From The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=52491
JPG, 1500x1075 pixels
French
Still image
IMS-06
Northern France
Illumination of Hippocrates
Illuminated Manuscripts
Medicine
Greek & Roman
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand, containing medical remedies attributed to Hippocrates.
Hippocrates
Recueil de remedes manuscript
ca. 1430
Unknown
Image is owned by Harvard University, but is provided for free for educational purposes.
JPG, 573x867 pixels
Vellum, 14.5x10 cm., brown cowhide binding with blind tooling.
French
Still image
IMS-07
France
Initial depicting Christ as Judge
Illuminated Manuscripts
Holy Roman Empire
Laws of the Holy Roman Empire as inscribed by Johannes Waltpurg de Fridperg
Holy Roman Empire. Emperor (1314-1347: Ludwig IV)
Laws promulgated for Bavaria in 1346 : manuscript, [ca. 1500]
ca. 1500
Johannes Waltpurg de Fridperg
Image is owned by Harvard University, but is provided for free for educational purposes.
JPG, 455x641 pixels
57 leaves, bound in original blind tooled brown calf, with brass bosses and one strap, 42 cm.
German
Still image
IMS-08
Bavaria (Germany)
Capricorn
Illuminated Manscripts
Breviary
Zodiac signs -- Capricorn
An illumination depicting the zodiac symbol for Capricorn
Unknown
The Hague, KB, 76 J 18
c. 1275-1300
National Library of the Netherlands provides this image free of charge for educational purposes
JPG, 1006x1540 pixels
Vellum, 205x135mm, 18th-century brown leather
Unknown
Still image
IMS-10
Netherlands
Pisces
Illuminated Manuscripts
Zodiac Signs - Pisces
An illumination depicting the zodiac symbol for Pisces
Jacob van Maerlant
Der Naturen Bloeme
c. 1450-1500
National Library of the Netherlands provides this image free of charge for educational purposes
JPG, 755x503 pixels
Vellum, 290x210 mm, 19th century brown leather binding
Unknown
Still image
IMS-11
Flanders or Utrecht