Facsimiles of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Chronological List of Fondren Facsimilies

5th Century: 

Homer.  Ilias Ambrosiana.  Greek.  Cod. Ambrosianus F. 205 inf.  Bibliothecae Ambrosianae Mediolanensis.  ca. 483-508. Link to catalog

Vergilius Vaticanus. Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225. Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. ca. 400. Link to catalog

6th & 7th Century:

Codex purpureus Rossanensis.  Greek. NT. Matthew, Mark.  Rossano calabro, Museo dell'Arcivescovado. Link to catalog

Evangeliarii Syriaci, vulgo Rabbulae.  Rabbula Gospels.  Plut. I, 56.  Bibliotheca Medicea-Laurentiana. Link to catalog

Wiener Genesis.  Codex theol. Gr.31. Österreichisch Nationalbibliothek. Link to catalog

8th Century:

Codex Aureus.  Gospels.  Latin.  A.135. Kungliga Bibliotek, Stockholm. Link to catalog

Godescalc Gospels.   Ms. Nouv. acq. lat. 1203.   Bibliothèque nationale de France. Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814. Link to catalog

Lindisfarne Gospels.  Anglo-Saxon. Cotton MS Nero D iv.  British Library.  ca.700. Link to catalog

Lorscher Evangeliar.  Lorsch Gospels.  Latin. Two parts: Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome. ca. 778-820. Link to catalog

9th Century:

Book of Kells.  Gospels.  Latin.  Trinty College, Dublin.  ca.800. Link to catalog

Drogo-Sakramentar.   Ms. Lat. 9428.  Bibliothèque nationale. Link to catalog

Liber de laudibus sanctae crucis.  Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.  Codex Vindobonensis 652.  Österreichisch Nationalbibliothek.  Fulda, after 844. Link to catalog

Stuttgart Psalter.  Ms. Biblia folio 23, Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.   c. 820. Link to catalog

Trierer Apokalypse.  Latin.  Codex 31, Stadtbibliothek Trier.   First quarter of the 9th century. Link to catalog

Utrecht-Psalter.  Latin.  Handschrift 32.  Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Link to catalog

Valenciennes Apocalypse.  Latin.  Manuscript 99.  Bibliothèque municipale de Valenciennes. Link to catalog

10th Century:

Apocalipsis.  Latin.  Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana,  -797.  M. 644.  Pier Pont Morgan Library.   Illuminated 940 - 945 by Maius. Link to catalog

Benedictional of Saint Æthelwold.  Latin.   British Library.  Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, ca. 908-984. Link to catalog

Bibel des Leo Patricius, altes Testament, Reg. gr. I B.  Greek.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript Codex Reg. gr. I B. Link to catalog

Egbert-Codex. Gospel lectionary.  Stadtbibliothek Trier.  Egbert, Archbishop of Trier, d. 993. Link to catalog

Evangeliar Ottos III.  Latin.  Bayerische  Staatsbibliothek, München.  CLM4453. Link to catalog

Joshua roll.   Josua-Rolle, Codex Vaticanus Pal. Graec. 431.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Link to catalog

Reichenau Pericopes.  Gospel lectionary.  Herzog August Bibliothek.  ca. 979-989. Link to catalog

11th Century:

Echternach Gospel-book. Latin.  Uppsala universitetsbibliothek. Manuscript. Codex C 93. 1051. Link to catalog

Echternach Sacramentary and Antiphonary.  Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt. Link to catalog

Eusebian Canons.  Evangeliary.  Manuscript. Codex F. II. 1.   Civica biblioteca queriniana di Brescia.  Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340. Link to catalog

Old English illustrated Hexateuch.  Cotton Claudius B. IV.  British Museum. Link to catalog

Reichenau Pericopes.  Gospel lectionary.   Latin.  Cod. Guelf. 84.5 Aug. 2.  Herzog August Bibliothek.  ca. 979-989.  Link to catalog

Uta-Codex.  Evangeliary.  Latin.  Handschrift Clm 13601.  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Link to catalog

12th Century:

Bible moralisée.  Latin, French.  Codex Vindobonensis 2554.  Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Link to catalog

De virginitate Sanctae Mariae.  Latin.  Biblioteca palatina di Parma. Manuscript. 1650. Link to catalog

Exultet.  Latin.  Roma, Biblioteca casanatense, Manuscript Cas. 724 (B.I.13) III. Link to catalog

Hildegard-Gebetbuch.  Prayer book. Codex Latinus 935.  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.  second half of the 12th century. Link to catalog

Mosaner Psalter-Fragment.  Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kupferstichkabinett. MSS. (78 A6). Link to catalog

St. Alban's Psalter.  Latin.  HS St. God. 1.  Dombibliothek zu Hildesheim.  Created for Christina of Markyate, c.1096-. Link to catalog

13th Century:

Album de Villard de Honnecourt, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093.  ca. 1220-1240 Link to catalog

Beato del Monasterio de Santa Maria la Real de Huelgas de Burgos.  Latin.  M.429.  Pierpont Morgan Library. 1220. Link to catalog

Book of Beasts.  Bestiary.  Latin.  MS Bodley 764.  Bodleian Library. Link to catalog

De arte venandi cum avibus.  Falkenbuch Friedrichs II.  cod. Pal. lat. 1071.   Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250. Link to catalog

Douce Apocalypse.  Latin.  MS Douce 180.  Bodleian Library.  Old French commentary. Link to catalog

Das Hainricus-Missale (Hainricus Sacramentary) Pierpont Morgan Library, Manuscript M.711 Link to catalog

Houghton Shahnameh. 1237.  Illuminations by Firdawsī. Link to catalog

Maqamat Al-Hariri, illustrated by Y. Al-Wasiti.  Ms Arabe 5847.   Bibliothèque nationale de France.  Arabic picaresque literature. Link to catalog

Medicina Antiqua.  Latin.  Codex Vindobonensis 93.  Österreichische National Bibliothek, Wien. Link to catalog

Morgan Crusader Bible.   Facsimile recreation of the picture Bible of Saint Louis, 1240? -1250?  Facsimile recreation of the picture Bible of Saint Louis, the complete manuscript, of which 43 sheets are at the Pierpont Morgan Library, N.Y. (MS M.638); 2 sheets are at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Ms. nouv.acq. lat. 2294); 1 sheet is at the Jean Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (83.MA.55). Link to catalog

Rheinauer Psalter.  Ms. Rh. 167.  Zentralbibliothek Zürich.  ca. 1260. Link to catalog

Roman de la Rose.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.  Manuscript. Urb. lat. 376     Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.; Berthaud, d'Achy, active 12th century-13th century. Link to catalog

14th Century:

Apocalypsis Yates Thompson 10.   British Museum.  France.  Late 14th century. Link to catalog

Cloisters Apocalypse.  Latin.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Early 14th century. Link to catalog

De Lisle Psalter.  MS Arundel 83 II.  British Library.  Lisle, Robert de, 1288-1344. Link to catalog

Grandes heures of Jean, Duke of Berry.   Manuscript (Latin 919).   Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416. Link to catalog

Hereford world map: mappa mundi.  Hereford Cathedral, England.  ca. 1300. Link to catalog

Heures de Turin-Milan  (Ms. Très belles heures de Nôtre-Dame).  Latin.  Museo civico d'arte antica, Turin.  Several illuminators, ca.1380 – 1420, school of Limbourg brothers; Van Eyck brothers. Link to catalog

Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.  Latin.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters.  French ms. illuminations attributed to Jean Pucelle. 1325-1328. Link to catalog

Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus.  French.  Manuscrit français 616.  Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391. Link to catalog

Livre du Chastel de labour.  German & French (Middle French).  Widener I, Free Library of Philadelphia.  Jacques Bruyant, 14th c. Link to catalog

Luttrell Psalter.  Latin.  British Library.  Luttrell, Geoffrey, Sir, d. 1345. Link to catalog

Menologion bizantino de Oxford.  Greek.  Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Gr. th. f.1. Link to catalog

Peterborough Bestiary.  Latin.   Cambridge, Corpus Christi College.  ca.1300. Link to catalog

Petites heures du duc de Berry.  Latin.  Ms. lat. 18014.  Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.  Illuminations attributed to Andre Beauneveu and Jacquemart de Hesdin.  fl.1380-1411. Link to catalog

Ramsey Psalter.   Latin.  Cod. 58/1.  Benediktinerstift St. Paul, Austria; M.302.  Pierpont Morgan Library.  Early 14th c. Link to catalog

Rylands Haggadah.  Manuscript. Hebrew 6.  John Rylands University Library of Manchester.  Mid-14th-Century Catalonia. Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel.  Middle Low German.  Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.  Manuscript. Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2o.  Original text attributed to Eike von Repgow, ca. 1180 – ca. 1233. Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel.  Low Saxon, German.  Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden.  Manuscript M32. Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel,  German, Low German.  Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg.  Manuscript. Cod. Pal. Germ. 164. Link to catalog

Speculum Humanae Salvationis.  Codex Cremifanensis 243.  Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster. Link to catalog

Très riches heures du duc de Berry.  Latin.  Ms. 65. Bibliothèque, Musée Condé, Chantilly, Illuminations by the brothers Jean, Herman, and Pol de Limbourg; the work was completed by Jean Colombe.  Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1340-1416. Link to catalog

15th Century: 

Angelico, fra, ca. 1400-1455.  Messale di San Domenico.  Ms. 558.  Museo di San Marco, Firenze. Link to catalog

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.   Decamerone.  French.  Manuscript. 5070.  Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Translation into French, 1414.  Manuscript was copied mid15th century by Guillebert de Mets for Duke of Bourgogne Phillipe le Bon. Link to catalog

Buchaltärchen = Livre-autel.   Codex 1800, Österreichisch Nationalbibliothek, Wien.  Personal prayer-book/diptych belonging to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.  ca. 1450. Link to catalog

Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391.   Phébus des déduiz de la chasse des bestes sauvaiges et des oyseaux de proye.  Le livre de la chasse.   Manuscrit français 616 d. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Link to catalog

Haggadah de Pessah: la pâque juive.  Hebrew.  Cod. Bodmer 81.  Fondation Martin Bodmer.  Copied, illuminated by Joël ben Siméon Feibusch Ashkénazi. Link to catalog

Haggadah.   Hebrew.  Manuscript.  Additional 14762.   British Library.   Mid-15th century. Link to catalog

Lyon Apocalypse.  Latin.  Ms. 439.   Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.  ca. 1450. Link to catalog

Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502.  Trattato di architettura di Francesco di Giorgio Martini.  Codice Ashburnham 361. Biblioteca medicea laurenziana di Firenze. Link to catalog

Offizium der Madonna.  Book of Hours.  Ms. Vat. Lat. 10293.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. ca. 1500. Link to catalog

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.  L'Archimede di Piero.   Riccardiano 106.  Biblioteca riccardiana, Firenze. Link to catalog

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.  Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus.  Manuscript. Urb. Lat. 632.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Link to catalog

Polo, Marco.  Le Livre des Merveilles.  Manuscrit Francais 281. Bibliotheque Nationale de France.  Ms. presented to Jean de Berry January 1413, illuminated by the Boucicaut master and associates. Link to catalog

Prayer book of Charles the Bold.   Ms. 37, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Link to catalog

Rothschild miscellany.  Hebrew.  Ms.180/5.  Israel Museum, Jerusalem.  15th cent. northern Italy. Link to catalog

Das Turnierbuch fur Rene d’Anjou (Le Pas de Saumur) Link to catalog

16th Century:

Bilder-Pentateuch von Moses dal Castellazzo, Venedig 1521.   Codex 1164.  Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw. Link to catalog

Portolan-Atlas von Battista Agnese (1546) Link to catalog