16th Century

A collection of notes on Books of Hours in Danish collection s intended for students and scholars already specialize d in the analysis of medieval manuscript s. Use the CHD Guides to Pictorial Resources to view illustrati ons.

Provides access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen.

"In the early 16th century, Cardinal Patriarch Marco Cornaro commissioned [this] illuminated manuscript, the famous Cornaro Missal. A missal is a book containing all of the prayers and responses to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year.

In the early 1600s, the missal was bound in a Roman binding of elaborately tooled leather in a French fanfare-style design. A masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art by an anonymous artist from northern Italy, the missal was later acquired by the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family. Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II, the missal was returned to the Rothschilds after the war and later sold by them at auction."
~thewalters.org

Images and detailed descriptions of the collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The descriptions, compiled by several generations of curators, often contain information not available elsewhere, such as complete lists of texts and illustrations within a manuscript and bibliographies.

An online exhibit dedicated to all forms of women in religion from the early Middle Ages until the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

The Enluminures database allows for free consultation of more than 80,000 reproductions of illuminations and elements of decoration of more than 4,000 medieval manuscripts preserved in a hundred French public libraries.

Click on "Recherche" to search for books and manuscripts in the collection of the national library of France.

A website from a past exhibition which explored Italian manuscript painting from the 1200s through the 1500s, focusing on five centers of manuscript production in Italy -- Bologna, northeastern Italy, Lombardy, Tuscany & Umbria, and Rome -- each with its own artistic traditions.

Parchmment s, charters and manuscript s from the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

An iconographic database covering about 15,000 of the illuminations in the BNF's Department of Manuscripts.

These manuscript leaves were selected from the Rochester Institute of Technology 's Cary Collection to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest developmen t and influence. They have been taken from books written in various European scriptoria by Benedictin e, Franciscan , Carthusian , Dominican, and other orders of monks.

This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.

The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be the most mysterious manuscript in the world. To this day this medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation. It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.

An online exhibit from the BNF of Persian illuminated manuscripts from the 12th-17th centuries, offering a complete panorama of the art of the Persian book.

The UK's College of Arms shows two 16th century grants of arms and crest by letters patent.

Photos and description of a book "produced c1500 ... filled with designs for different styles of script, letters, initials and decorative borders."

The Schøyen Collection comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century.

View 253 digitized Renaissance festival books that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 -- marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events.

With an emphasis on Polish manuscript s.

Waterford is Ireland&#3 9;s oldest city, founded by Viking raiders in 914 A.D. The city centre was extensivel y excavated between 1986 and 1992 and the range, quantity and quality of what was found from Waterford& #39;s Viking and Medieval past, surpassed all expectatio ns. Waterford Museum of Treasures brings together for the first time the excavated objects and the historic municipal collection and displays them in optimum conditions . The exhibition celebrates the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of all who contribute d to the making of Waterford.