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Frankish
Aachen Gospels
c. 800-810, Aachen Cathedral

 

German
Aachen Gospels of Liuthar
c. 996, Aachen Cathedral

   

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

         

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Islamic
Alexander building a wall across Caucasus against Gog and Magog people, Iskandarname (One of five books of Nizami's Khamsa)
c. 1600

 

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

 

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

 

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

       

Bohemian
Antiphonary Leaf with the Nativity
c. 1405, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

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

     

German
Arnstein Bible
c. 1172, British Library, London

 

German
Ars Memorandi per Figuras Evangelistarum
c. 1470, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

 

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

             

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

       

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

 

Islamic
Bahram Gur slays the dragon, from a Khamseh of Niziami
1442-1443, British Museum, London

 

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

   

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

     

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

 

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

   

Frankish
Bern Physiologus
c. 825-850

 

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

   

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
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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

French
Book of Hours
c. 1460-1470, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

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

   

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

 

Pre-Columbian
Boturini Codex (Tira de la Peregrinación)
c. 1530-1541, Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City

 

German
Boulougne Gospels
c. 1000, Bibliothèque Municipale, Boulougne

 

Spanish
Burgo de Osma Beatus
1086, Burgo de Osma Cathedral, Burgo de Osma

 

English
Bury Saint Edmunds Psalter
c. 1050, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome

 

English
Butler Hours
c. 1340, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

French
Buves Hours
c. 1450-1460, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Islamic
Calligram in the Form of a Horse
1849-1850, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

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

   

English
Canterbury Psalter (Paris Psalter Ms. lat. 8846)
c. 1180-1200, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

         

German
Carmina Burana
c. 1200-1233, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn

 

English
Caxton's Canterbury Tales
1484, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

German
Cerruti Housebook (Tacuinum Sanitatis)
c. 1400, Bodleian Library, Oxford

   

Flemish
Chronicle of the Assassination of John the Fearless
c. 1495, Biblioth&eagrave;que Universitaire, Leyden

 

French
Cluny Lectionary
c. 1100-1150, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Anglo-Saxon
Codex Amiatinus
c. 716, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

   

Frankish
Codex Aureus of Charles the Bald (Code Aureus of Saint Emmeram)
c. 870, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

     

French
Codex Colbertinus
c. 1100, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Byzantine
Codex Ebnerianus
c. 1150, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Pre-Columbian
Codex Fehéváry-Mayer
before 1521, Liverpool Museum

 

German
Codex Manesse
c. 1310-1340, Universit&aum;tsbibliothek, Heidelberg

   

Pre-Columbian
Codex Mendoza
c. 1542, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     

German
Codex Wittekindeus
c. 970, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin

 

German
Cologne Bible
c. 1479

                                               

Anglo-Saxon
Copenhagen Gospels
c. 1020, Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

 

English
Copenhagen Psalter
c. 1170-1175, Royal Library, Copenhagen

 

French
Corbie Gospels
c. 1050-1100, Bibliothèque d'Amiens Métropole

 

English
Coronation Order and Metrical Apocalypse
c. 1335-1339, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

Frankish
Coronation Sacramentary of Charles the Bald
869-870, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

German
Corvey Gospels
c. 950-1000, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

 

Byzantine
The Cotton Genesis
c. 400-600, British Library, London

   

German
Cover for the Precious Gospels of Bernward
c. 1015; refurbished c. 1194, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

   

German
Cover for the Ratman Sacramentary
1159, restored 1400, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Cover for the Small Bernward Gospel
c. 1150-1200, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Covers for the 14 Bauhaus Books
1925-1930, private collection

 

French
Crucifixion Leaf from the Casanatense Missal
c. 1390-1408, Royal Collection, Windsor

 

Islamic
The Dauphine, Francois of Valois, inlaid in Mughal Album
c. 1610-1620, British Museum, London

 

English
De Arithmetica and De Musica of Boethius
c. 1100-1133, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

 

English
De Civitate Dei from Canterbury
c. 1120, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence

 

French
De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women)
1402, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

English
De Lisle Psalter
c. 1308-1319, British Library, London

   

French
De Sobrietate by Milo of Saint-Amand
c. 1000-1050, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leiden

 

German
Dialogue Praising the Holy Cross
1170-1180, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Islamic
Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayr
1402-1403, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Islamic
Diwan of Kwaju Kirmani
1396, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Double Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1300-1400, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

English
Douce Apocalypse
c. 1265-1270, Bodleian Library, Oxford

                   

English
Dover Bible
c. 1155-1165, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

Frankish
Drogo Sacramentary
c. 844-855, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Anglo-Saxon
Durham Cassiodorus
c. 725-750, Cathedral Library, Durham

 

English
Eadwine Psalter
c. 1150, Trinity College Library, Cambridge

             

Frankish
Ebbo Gospels
c. 825-850, Bibliothèque Municipale, Epernay

     

German
Echternach Codex Aureus
c. 1030, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Echternach Gospels (Gospels of Saint Willibrord)
c. 700, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

English
Egerton Genesis
c. 1350-1375, British Library, London

 

Spanish
Escorial Beatus
c. 950-1000, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

     

Italian
Eseplario di Lavori (Model Book for Needlework) of Giovanni Andrea Vavassore
1540, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Evangelistary
after 750

 

English
Evesham Psalter
c. 1250-1260, British Library, London

 

French
Explanatio In Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah)
c. 1125

 

Flemish
Floreffe Bible
c. 1156, British Library, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Florentine Codex
c. 1540-1585

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
9th Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-950, Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery, Dublin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-900, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 900-1000, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 925-950, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1000-1100, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1000-1100, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1300-1400, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 750-800, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 850-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
993, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1100-1200, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1250-1300, private collection

   

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1300-1310, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1300-1320, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1313-1325, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1370-1400, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1310-1320, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1350-1420, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1525-1550, private collection

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1250-1350, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1250-1350, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 900-1000, Musée National d'Art Islamique de Raqqada, Kairouan

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1250-1400, Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 800-1000, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 700, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 700-750, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 850-900, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 900-1000, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 900-1000, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1200-1300, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1350-1450, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1300, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1275-1315, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 750-800, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 850-900, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 900-1000, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Folio from a Qur'an
c. 1150, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Folio from the Blue Qur'an
c. 850-950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from the Blue Qur'an
c. 850-950, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Folio from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Objects of al-Jazari: The Elephant Clock
1315, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama: The Funeral of Isfandiyar
c. 1330-1340, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folio from the Khamsa of Nizami: Iskandar in the Enchanted Garden
c. 1560, Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C.

 

Islamic
Folio from the 'Uthman (Tashkent) Qur'an
c. 750-850, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Folios from a Qur'an
c. 950-1000, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Austrian
Four Winds Diagram
c. 1300, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragment of Ptolemy's Almagest
c. 1000-1200, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 800-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 800-900, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 800, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 1000-1100, private collection

       

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 1250-1350, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 1320-1330, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 1330-1350, private collection

 

Islamic
Fragmentary Qur'an
c. 1350-1450, private collection

 

Islamic
The Funeral of Alexander the Great
c.1600, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Furusiyya Manuscript
1371, British Library, London

   

German
Gero Codex
c. 965-970, Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart

 

German
Girdle Book
1454, New York City Public Library

 

Frankish
Godescalc Gospel Lectionary
781-83, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

German
Golden Gospels of Henry III
1043-1046, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

 

Frankish
Gospel Book
c. 850-900, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

Byzantine
Gospel Book from Constantinople
c. 1050-1100, Biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Parma

 

Byzantine
Gospel Book from Constantinople
c. 1150, Bibliotecca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

 

French
Gospel Book from Saint-Ouen
c. 1070-1100, British Museum, London

 

German
Gospel Book from Saxony
c. 1175-1200, British Library, London

 

Byzantine
Gospel Book from the Kokkinobaphos Group
c. 1125-1150, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome

 

French
Gospel Book of Abbot Wedricus
c. 1145, Societe Archeologique et Historique, Avesnes-sur-Helpe

 

German
Gospel Book of Bernward of Hildesheim
c. 1015, Cathedral Treasury, Hildesheim

 

Bohemian
Gospel Book of Opava
1368, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

 

German
Gospel Book of Otto III
c. 997, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

             

German
Gospel Lectionary from Swabia
c. 1100, British Library, London

 

German
Gospels of Henry the Lion
c. 1188, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

     

Lombard
Gospels of Saint Augustine of Canterbury
c. 575-600, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

   

Frankish
Gospels of Saint-Médard of Soissons
before 827, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Frankish
Gospels of Sainte-Aure
c. 850-875, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris

 

Bohemian
Gradual from Prague
c. 1410

 

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