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Ten Examples of Medieval Manuscripts
Ten Examples of Medieval Manuscripts

Ten Examples of Medieval Manuscripts

Artist (Unknown)
Period16th century
MediumGouache, ink, and watercolor on paper and parchment
Credit LineGift of Ellen C. Hill ’41
Object number1978.002
Curatorial DepartmentEuropean Art (pre 1900)
Antiphonal Palimpsest
Anonymous (Italian)
c. 1460
Object number: 1978.003
Leaf from the Vulgate Bible
Anonymous (French)
c. 1230
Object number: 1978.002 a
Manuscript with Illumination (Five Leaves)
Anonymous (Flemish)
c. 1580
Object number: 1978.001.1-.5
Triumph of Death
Anonymous (Flemish)
c. 1480
Object number: 1978.001 a
Heavenly City of Earth, from St. Augustine
Anonymous (Flemish)
c. 1480
Object number: 1978.004
The Tree of Jesse, from I Samuel
Anonymous (Flemish)
c. 1480
Object number: 1978.004 a
Rokeghem Hours (Use of Rome)
Margarita Bruynruwe
c. 1500
Object number: 2012.005
Hours of Du Breuil (Use of Rome)
The Master of Jean de Ferrière
c. 1490–1500
Object number: 2023.012
A leaf from a Jain manuscript of the Kalpasutra
Anonymous (Indian)
15th century
Object number: 1973.060
Untitled
Per Kirkeby
1989
Object number: 2015.007