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Frankish
Aachen Gospels
c. 800-810, Aachen Cathedral

 

German
Aachen Gospels of Liuthar
c. 996, Aachen Cathedral

   

French
Abbey Church at Cluny
1088-1130

         

French
Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, Fontenay
1139-47, Fontenay

     

French
Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, Jumieges
c. 1040-1067, Jumieges

     

German
Abbey Church of Saint Michael, Hildesheim
c. 1010-1033, Hildesheim

         

French
Abbey Church of Saint Philibert, Tournus
after 1020, Tournus

             

Frankish
Abbey Church of Saint Riquier, Monastery of Centula
dedicated 799, Centula

 

French
Abbey Church of Saint-Denis
1135-1144, Paris

                   

French
Abbey Church of Sainte Foy, Conques
c. 1050-1120, Conques

           

French
Abbey Church, Silvacane
c. 1175-1230, Silvacane

   

English
The Aberdeen Bestiary
c. 1200, Aberdeen University Library, Aberdeen

         

Frankish
Ada Gospels
c. 750-850, Stadtbibliothek, Trier

 

French
Adam, from the south transept of Notre-Dame, Paris
c. 1260, Musée de Cluny, Paris

 

Austrian
Admont Bible
c. 1140-1150, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

 

Italian
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1300-1350, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1400, Städel Museum, Frankfurt

 

Byzantine
Aedicula with Lions
c. 300-500, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Anglo-Saxon
Aelfric's Anglo-Saxon Hexateuch
c. 1025-1050, British Library, London

 

Spanish
Agate Casket
c. 900, Oviedo Cathedral, Oviedo

   

Islamic
Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation)
1280, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Islamic
Al-Aqmar Mosque
1125, Cairo

   

Islamic
Albarello
c. 1300-1400, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Albarello
c. 1350-1400, Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid

 

French
Albi Cathedral
1282-1390, Albi, Languedoc

       

Byzantine
Alexander Romance
c. 1261-1300, Hellenic Institute, Venice

 

Islamic
The Alhambra
14th Century, Granada

         

Islamic
Alhambra Curtain
c. 1300-1400, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Alhambra Hanging Fragment
c. 1300-1400, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Alhambra Hanging Fragment
c. 1300-1400, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Alhambra Hanging with Decorated Bands
c. 1300-1400, Hispanic Society of America, New York

 

Islamic
Alhambra Vase
c. 1300-1500, Museo de la Alhambra, Granada

 

German
Allegorical Battle Scene, detached from a Speculum Virginum
c. 1175-1200, Kestner Museum, Hanover

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 985, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 1150-1175, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Altar Cross of Abbess Mathilde and Duke Otto
973-982, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

German
Altar Fragment with Apostles
c. 1100-1125

 

German
Altar Frontal at Basel Cathedral
c. 1017

   

Spanish
Altar Frontal from Santa Maria, Tahull
c. 1123, Museu d'Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona

 

Spanish
Altar Frontal from the Bishopric of Urguell
c. 1125, Museo de Arte de Cataluña, Barcelona

   

Spanish
Altar Frontal of Guils
c. 1200-1300, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

 

Spanish
Altar Frontal with Christ in Majesty and the Life of Saint Martin
c. 1250, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Italian
Altar Frontal with Griffins Drinking from a Chalice
c. 850-950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Sacred Tree
c. 1300, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Flemish
Altarpiece in the Form of a Turret, with Scenes from Christ's Childhood
c. 1390-1395, Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp

         

Bohemian
Altneuschul
c. 1250-1300, Prague

 

French
Alton Towers Triptych
c. 1150, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Roman
Ambrosian Iliad
c. 493-508, Biblioteca Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

       

English
Angel from the Palace of Westminster
c. 1265-1270, British Museum, London

 

French
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1280-1300, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

French
Angel with a Flowering Staff
1175-1200, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 

French
Annunciation
c. 1350-1400, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Annunciation Relief from a Pulpit
c. 1180-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Spanish
Annunciation, from San Pedro de Sorpe
c. 1100-1150, Museo de Arte de Cataluña, Barcelona

 

German
Antependium Section Depicting the Last Supper
c. 1300-1310, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Spanish
Antependium with Enthroned Virgin and Child
c. 1275-1325, Museo de Arte de Cataluña, Barcelona

 

English
Anthropomorphic Jug
c. 1280-1320, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Byzantine
The Antioch Chalice
c. 500-550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Spanish
Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James
1140-1170, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 

Spanish
Apostles, from San Saturnino de Arajona
c. 1250-1300, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona

 

Roman
Apse mosaic in Santa Cecilia in Trasevere
c. 822, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome

 

Roman
Apse mosaic in Santa Maria in Domnica
c. 822, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome

 

English
Aquamanile in the Form of a Horseman
c. 1250, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Italian
Aquamanile in the form of a Mounted Knight
c. 1000-1100, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

 

French
Aquamanile in the form of Aristotle and Phyllis
c. 1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Byzantine
Archangel Michael
c. 525-550, British Museum, London

   

Islamic
Architectural Relief from the Royal Palace at Madinat al-Zahra
c. 936-976, Conjunto Arqueológico de Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba

 

Egyptian
Architectural Relief with an Angel in a Medallion and Nilotic Motifs
c. 500-800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Hiberno-Saxon
Ardagh Chalice
c. 725, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

 

Islamic
The Arenberg Basin
c. 1239-1249, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Anglo-Saxon
Arenberg Gospels
c. 1000-1020, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

     

Byzantine
Arian Baptistery
before 526, Ravenna

                     

French
Arm Reliquary
c. 1150-1200, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

 

German
Arm Reliquary
c. 1130-1140, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Swiss
Arm Reliquary of Saint Valentine
c. 1380-1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
c. 1190, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Netherlandish
Armorial Tapestry Fragment with Arms of the Beaufort, Comminges, and Turenne Families
c. 1350-1375, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Arms of a Processional Cross
c. 653-672, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

German
Arnstein Bible
c. 1172, British Library, London

 

Italian
The Arrest of Christ
c. 1350, Albertina, Vienna

 

Byzantine
Artophorion (Reliquary of Saint Anastasios the Persian)
c. 969-970, Aachen Cathedral

 

French
Ascension Window, Le Mans Cathedral
c. 1140-1145, Le Mans

 

Byzantine
Ashburnham Pentateuch
c. 575-625, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

             

English
The Ashmole Bestiary
c. 1210, Bodleian Library, Oxford

       

Spanish
Astorga Casket
c. 900, Museo de la Catedral, Astorga

   

Islamic
Astrolabe
927-928, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Central Asian
The Attack of Mara
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Automata of al-Jazari (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices)
1315, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Viking
Axehead with Animal Decoration
c. 970-971, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

   

Anglo-Saxon
Bag Beaker
c. 600-700, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Norwegian
Baldishol Tapestry Fragment
c. 1150-1200, Kunstindustri Museum, Oslo

 

German
Bamberg Apocalypse
c. 1000-1020, Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg

   

Viking
Bamberg Casket
c. 975, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

 

Islamic
Banner of Las Navas de Tolosa
c. 1212-1250, Museo de Telas Medievales, Burgos

   

Anglo-Saxon
Baptism of Christ
c. 1000-1050, British Museum, London

 

Italian
Baptism of Christ
c. 1100, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

German
Baptismal Font
c. 1226, Hohe Domkirche, Hildesheim

     

English
Baptismal Font, Saint Michael's Church, Castle Frome
c. 1140, Saint Michael's Church, Castle Frome

 

Islamic
Baptistere de Saint Louis
c. 1300, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Italian
Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence
1059-1128, Florence

         

Anglo-Saxon
Barberini Gospels (Wigbald Gospels)
c. 750-800, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome

     

Byzantine
Barberini Ivory (Justinian as Conqueror)
c. 500-550, Musée du Louvre, Paris

     

Italian
Barbute
c. 1350-1420, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Bargello
c. 1254-1346, Florence

   

Spanish
Barnabas Altarpiece
c. 1300, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

   

German
Basilewsky Situla
c. 980, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Italian
Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta
1008 (rebuilt in present-day form), Torcello, Venice

 

Roman
Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
c. 550-1250, Rome

 

Italian
Basilica of San Marco
c. 1060, Piazza San Marco, Venice

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Spanish
Basin from Andalusia
c. 1000-1099, Museo del Almudin, Jativa

 

Spanish
Basin of King Badis
1038-1073, Museo Nacional de Arte Hispano Musulmán, Granada

   

French
Bayeux Tapestry
c. 1066-1082, Centre Guillaume le Conquerant, Bayeux

                                         

Islamic
Beaker in Cameo Technique
c. 800-1000, L.A. Mayer Memorial for Islamic Art, Jerusalem

 

Islamic
Beaker with Kufic Script and Palmette-Headed Trees
c. 950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Islamic
Beaker with Relief-Cut Decoration
c. 800-1000, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Beaker with Threaded Decoration
c. 1250-1350, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

Byzantine
Beakers decorated with Birds in Roundels
c. 1150-1250, Corning Museum of Glass

 

German
Bearing of the Cross
c. 1400, Albertina, Vienna

 

Spanish
Beatus from San Millán
c. 1000, Academia de la Historia, Madrid

   

English
Bede's Commentary on the Apocalypse
c. 1150-1200, Saint John's College, Cambridge

 

Islamic
Bell-Shaped Flask
c. 900-1100, private collection

 

French
The Belle Verrière, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
c. 1180, Chartres

 

Visigothic
Belt Buckle
6th c, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

Byzantine
Belt Buckle
c. 600-700, British Museum, London

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with a Griffin Drinking from a Fountain
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with Interlace Motif
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Roman
Belt Buckle with Peter and Paul Embracing
c. 400-500, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii, Pompeii

 

Frankish
Belt Tip with Gilding and Niello
c. 500-600, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Anglo-Saxon
Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold
971-984, British Library, London

   

Byzantine
Beresford Hope Cross
c. 850-900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Frankish
Bern Physiologus
c. 825-850

 

German
The Bernward Bible
c. 1000-1050, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

   

German
The Bernward Cross
c. 1007-1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Bernward's Candlesticks
before 1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Bernward's Column
c. 1015, Hildesheim Cathedral

 

Anglo-Saxon
Besancon Gospels
c. 1015-1030, Bibliothèque Municipale, Besancon

 

English
Bestiary
c. 1200-1250, St. John’s College Library, Oxford

 

English
Bestiary, Harley MS 3244
c. 1240-1250, British Library, London

         

English
Bestiary, Harley MS 4751
c. 1230-1240, British Library, London

       

English
Bestiary, MS Bodley 764
c. 1250, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     

French
Bestiary, MS Ludwig XV 3
c. 1270, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

     

French
Betrayal of Christ
c. 1240-1250, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Native American
Bi-lobed Basket
c. 1200

 

French
Bible from Citeaux
c. 1100-1125, Bibliothèque Publique, Dijon

 

French
Bible Moralisée
1227-1234, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

     

French
Bible Moralisée
c. 1225-1250, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

     

Frankish
Bible of San Paolo
c. 870, San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome

 

English
Bible Picture Leaf with the Christmas Story
c. 1140, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Bifolio from the Mushaf al-hadina (Nurse's Qur'an)
1019-1020, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Native American
Bilobed-Arrow Headdress
c. 1200-1400, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.

 

Viking
Bird-Shaped (Pelican?) Brooch
c. 1000-1100, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Native American
Birdman Pictograph
c. 1300-1500, Cave I, Warren County, Missouri

 

Native American
Birger Figurine (Female figure tilling the jaguar-serpent earth)
c. 1100, Illinois State Museum, Springfield

   

German
The Bishop of Assisi and Saint Francis Handing a Palm to Saint Clare
c. 1360, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Bishop's Throne, Santa Maria Assunta
c. 639, Torcello

 

Italian
Blessing Bishop (Saint Nicholas of Bari)
c. 1350-1375, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Blue Gass Bowl from Iran
c. 800-1000, British Museum, London

 

German
Book cover depicting Saint Gregory
c. 1000, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

German
Book Cover from Sion Cathedral
c. 922-37, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Book Cover of Archbishop Aribert
1018-1045, Milan Cathedral Treasury, Milan

 

Frankish
Book Cover of the Codex Aureus of Charles the Bald
870, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

   

German
Book Cover of the Echternach Codex Aureus with the Crucifixion
983-1056, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

French
Book Cover Plaque with the Crucifixion
c. 1200-1300, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

German
Book Cover Plaque with the Crucifixion
c. 968-970, private collection

 

Frankish
Book Cover with a Depiction of the Sacrifice of the Mass
c. 875, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt

 

Byzantine
Book Cover with Crucifixion and the Virgin Orans
c. 800-950, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

German
Book Cover with the Crucifixion
c. 1000-1050, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Frankish
Book Cover with the Crucifixion
c. 840-850, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Byzantine
Book Covers with Scenes from the Life of Christ
c. 400-500, Tesoro del Duomo di Milano, Milan

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Book of Armagh
c. 800-810, Trinity College, Dublin

 

Anglo-Saxon
Book of Astronomical Treatises
c. 1000, British Library, London

 

Anglo-Saxon
Book of Cerne
820-840, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

 

German
Book of Collects from Reichenau
c. 1010-1030, Dombibliothek, Hildesheim

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Book of Dimma
c. 750, Trinity College, Dublin

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Book of Durrow
c. 650-700, Trinity College Library, Dublin

         

Islamic
Book of Fixed Stars
c. 1009, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Hiberno-Saxon
Book of Kells
c. 800, Trinity College, Dublin

                                                           

German
Book of Pericopes from Reichenau
c. 1000-1025, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Hiberno-Saxon
Book of Saint Chad (Lichfield Gospels)
c. 725-750, Cathedral Library, Lichfield

   

Byzantine
Bookcover with Christ and the Virgin Orans
c. 950-1050, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

Byzantine
Bookcover with Crucifixion and Anastasis
c. 1300-1400, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

French
Border Panel from Saint-Denis
c. 1140-1144, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Byzantine
The Borradaile Oliphant
c. 900-1100, British Museum, London

 

Byzantine
Borradaile Triptych
c. 900-1000, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Boss depicting Archers
c. 1175-1225, British Museum, London

 

Anglo-Saxon
Bosworth Psalter
c. 975-1000, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Bottle
c. 800-900, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

Islamic
Bottle
c. 850-950, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Bottle with Applied Animals and Birds
c. 900-1050, David Collection, Copenhagen

 

Islamic
Bottle with Birds
c. 1100-1300, Toledo Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Bottle with Birds
c. 800-1000, David Collection, Copenhagen

 

Islamic
Bottle with Birds
c. 800-1000, Toledo Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Bottle with Birds, Stylized Vegetal Decoration, and Inscriptions
c. 1200-1250, private collection

 

Islamic
Bottle with Calligraphic Decoration and Inscription
c. 1200-1250, private collection

 

Native American
Bottle with Great Serpent/Underwater Panther
c. 1300-1500, private collection

 

Islamic
Bottle with Ibexes
c. 800-1000, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

 

Islamic
Bottle with Inscribed Decoration
c. 800-900, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

 

Islamic
Bottle with Inscription
c. 1100-1200, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

 

Native American
Bottle with Ogee and Hand-and-Eye Motifs
c. 1300-1500, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge

 

Islamic
Bottle with Threaded Decoration
c. 600-750, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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