Book of hours, Paris c. 1410. Miniature of the Annunciation, with the start of Matins in the Little Office, the beginning of the texts after the calendar in the usual arrangement.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, Narodna in univerzitetna knjiznica v Ljubljani (Collectarium (William of St-Thierry, Life of St Bernard; Lives and Martyrdoms of Saints))
MS 136 in the Spencer Collection New York Public Library,
Codex latinus 2941 in the Bibliotheca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia.
Paolo Santini or Paulus Savetinus Ducensis copy of Taccola work, De re militari et de machinis bellicis Codex latinus 7239 in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris,
__________ early sixteenth-century to Niccolaus Germanus' manuscript codes Parisinus Latinus 4801
_________BNF_______Codex Latinus Parisinus 4802, which has Jacopo del Massaio's 1428 maps illustrating Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia's 1408-9 Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.
London, British Library, Add MS 8238 (Paisios Hagiopostolites, Verse History of Mount Sinai and its environs (London, British Library, Add MS 8238))
Slujebnicul Arhieresc al Mitropolitului Stefan al Ungrovlahiei
Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR, ms. ROM. 1790; sec. XVII <1661, Tara Romaneasca; Paper, 114 f.280/190 mm.. Text with black and red ink. Illuminated, majuscule, frontispicii in colour and gold)
Estera Hebrew Meghi'lat Esther (Estera).
Bucharest, National Academy Library (Ester - BAR ms. oriental 405, 1673 Moldova, pergament, roll 1750/173 mm. Ebraic text aschenaz with black ink. Flowered frames and anthropomorphic decorations in red, green, blue and yellow.)
Rome, Italy; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Castro Pretorio). Dipartimento Manoscritti Antichi e Rari. Fondo Vittorio Emmanuele 307 (Vaticinia de Futuri Christi Vicarii ad Cesarem Filium; 1629. 82 pages sewed as a codex. Brought by Cèzar de Nostre-Dame to cardinal Maffeo Barberini) It comprises 80 drawings and/or watercolored images that some book authors link to Catholic Popes in the future. There are several images with probable astrological (astronomical dating) that are very cryptic. Only ten images are commented by handwriting in Latin (seem added by a later interpreter) the other are silent.[1]
18th century
Erotocrit-ul from Vincenzo Cornaro,
Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR ms ROM. 3514; 1787 Tara Romaneasca; 219 f.; 275/195 mm. Text with black ink. Titles and initials with red ink. Ms illuminated from Petrache logofatul)
19th century
Book of kings
Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR, Ms. oriental nr.333, Ferdousi; Sah-name "Cartea regilor- Book of kings", sec. XIX, paper; 573 f.; 360/220 mm. ta'lik writing. Text on patru four columns in red frame. The manuscript has 77 de miniatures with hunting scenes, fighting scenes or regal palace interiors. The manuscript was Gh. Valentin Bibescu collection)
Weitzmann, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christin Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
Williams, John, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination New York: George Braziller, 1977.
Williams, John. The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, Volume 1, Introduction. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1994.
Papadaki-Oekland, Stella,"Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job", ISBN2-503-53232-2, [7]
Footnotes
^Lauterbach, Kreg, et al. Nostradamus lost book. TV-documentary about Nostradamus Vaticinia codex manuscript that was first aired in USA in October 2007, and then worldwide by History Channel.
