Latin

A lavishly illustrated 5th century manuscript of Virgil Aeneid and Georgics, among the oldest surviving illustrated classical book...

The oldest surviving Irish manuscript, a psalter of the late 6th or early 7th century associated by tradition with St Columba hims...

The oldest fully decorated Insular gospel book, made around 650 to 700, a generation before the Book of Kells. Its carpet pages of...

Written and illuminated around 700 by Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne, in honor of St Cuthbert. Its extraordinary carpet pages and...

A 7th century pocket gospel book of John found virtually intact in the coffin of St Cuthbert when his shrine was opened in 1104. I...

The oldest complete Latin Bible in one volume, made around 700 at the twin monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow and carried to Rome as a ...

A golden gospel book made around 870 at the Carolingian court, written entirely in gold ink with jeweled narrative miniatures. Ass...

The most influential manuscript of Carolingian art, a psalter of around 830 with 166 dynamic pen drawings illustrating every psalm...

The supreme masterpiece of Western calligraphy, an illuminated gospel book made around 800 by monks of Iona or Kells. Its dense pa...

The Devil's Bible, the largest surviving medieval manuscript, 92 cm tall and weighing 75 pounds, made in early 13th century Bohemi...

The largest and finest surviving 12th century English Bible, made at Winchester between 1160 and 1175 by a team of six scribes and...

The largest surviving collection of medieval secular lyric, over 300 poems in Latin, Middle High German, and Old French copied in ...

A picture book of the Old Testament made in Paris around 1240 for Louis IX, with over 280 paintings and almost no text. Its 13th c...

The richest Dutch manuscript of its time, made around 1440 in Utrecht for Catherine of Cleves, duchess of Guelders. Its 157 miniat...

One of only four surviving originals of the 1215 Magna Carta, the charter in which King John accepted that he was bound by law. Th...

The first major book printed in Europe with movable metal type, completed in Mainz around 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg in an edition...

One of the greatest Flemish illuminated manuscripts, a breviary completed around 1515 with miniatures associated with Gerard Horen...

An extraordinary book of hours of around 1455 written in silver and gold on vellum stained a deep blue-black with iron gall ink. A...

The most opulent manuscript of the Italian Renaissance, a two volume Bible made for Borso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, between 1455 an...

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published on 5 July 1687 under the imprimatur of the Royal Society, laid out the law...

The great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 and largely completed in 1086. Royal commissioners ...

Commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham in Lincolnshire around 1325 to 1340. Its margins teem with scenes of rural English...

A 12th century compilation devoted to St James, gathering sermons, liturgy, miracle stories, and the Pilgrim's Guide, often called...

A book of hours painted by the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Jean and Herman, for John, Duke of Berry, around 1405 to 1409, and their e...

A mid 8th century Gospel book from southern England, probably Canterbury, written in gold, silver and ink on alternating purple-dy...

An 8th century Psalter made in Canterbury, among the earliest English manuscripts with historiated initials, including David playi...

A 9th century Irish manuscript containing the oldest documents about St Patrick, including his Confessio, alongside a nearly compl...

A 10th century copy of Beatus of Liebana's Commentary on the Apocalypse, painted by the artist Maius, probably at the monastery of...

Commissioned by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, and his wife Matilda, daughter of Henry II of England, and made at Hel...

Made around 1000 for the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, one of the masterpieces of Ottonian book painting. A famous double page show...

The oldest surviving manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, copied in the 6th century not long after the law code was completed in...