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  • Early 15th century illuminated manuscript of the Late Version of the Wycliffite Bible, beginning of the New Testament.

    15th-century Wycliffite Bible

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    A manuscript containing the Later Version of the Middle English translation of the Bible produced by followers of the re...

  • Alphonso Psalter

    Alphonso Psalter

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Parchment Codex

    This manuscript was begun for Prince Alphonso (b. 1273, d. 1284), son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, who was betrot...

  • Scourged figure

    Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Manuscript annotation

    An opulent object, with nearly fifty illustrations, this Book of Hours once belonged to Anne Boleyn (d. 1536), King Henr...

  • Armenian Gospel Book

    Armenian Gospel book

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    A lavish copy of the Gospels in Armenian, made in the Persian capital of Isfahan, in 1608. When did Christianity spread ...

  • Barcelona Haggadah, Add MS 14761, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    Barcelona Haggadah

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Illumination

    A highly illuminated medieval Spanish Hagadah. What is the Hagadah? The Hagadah (plural Hagadot), which literally mean...

  • Manuscript

    Collectanea satis copiosa

    Illuminated manuscript

    For about two years, a team of scholars and royal agents gathered together and studied manuscripts that would provide ev...

  • Buddhist Cosmology

    Coloured illustrations of Buddhist heavens and hel...

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Image

    A folding book manuscript in 59 folds made in Upper Burma. It has tooled leather covers with paper labels dated Manadala...

  • Manuscript

    Coronation of Henry VIII with notes by Henry

    Illuminated manuscript

    On acceding to the throne, monarchs were crowned in a magnificent and elaborate ceremony in which the new king swore to ...

  • Cosomological Diagram

    Cosmological diagram

    Manuscript, Image, Illuminated manuscript

    This is one of a set of delicate drawings depicting the world, the heavens and the hells of Buddhist cosomolgy. Here, va...

  • Castle

    Design for Henrician castle on the Kent coast

    Illuminated manuscript

    This fortification plan or ‘plat’ is a survivor of the many that were stuffed into drawers in Henry’s office in Holbein ...

  • Music with rose

    Double canon dedicated to Henry VIII

    Illuminated manuscript

    This grand manuscript was prepared for Henry in 1516 by a successful Flemish merchant

  • Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible

    Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    The messianic imagery found in these splendid Hebrew Bibles is unique. Crystallised in Spain in the 13th century and app...

  • Decorated initial-word panel accompanied by partial foliate border

    Duke of Sussex's Italian Pentateuch

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    A 15th-century Pentateuch featuring illuminated letters, which are rare in Hebrew manuscripts. What is the Pentateuch? ...

  • Harley Golden Gospels, Harley MS 2788, folio 12 verso

    Harley Golden Gospels

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    The Harley Golden Gospels is a magnificent copy of the Four Gospels written entirely in gold and decorated on every page...

  • Henry VIII on his deathbed

    Henry VII on his deathbed

    Illuminated manuscript

    Though he may not have been present, the Garter King of Arms, Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d. 1534), wrote a detailed account...