Illustration from a 15th-century French manuscript of Virgil: Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 493, 9r, c. 1470.
The Vergilius Romanus (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867), also known as the Vergilius Romanus or Roman Vergil, is a 5th-century illustrated manuscript of the works of Virgil. It contains the Aeneid, the Georgics, and some of the Eclogues. It is one of the oldest and most important Vergilian manuscripts, and one of the few surviving illustrated classical manuscripts. It can be viewed online at the Vatican Library website.
Illustration from a 15th-century French manuscript of Virgil: Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 493, 3v, c. 1470.
'Passazia et auxilia Terre Sancte', from the Abreviamen de las Estorias, Avignon, 1321–1324, Egerton MS 1500, f. 46r The text is as section on the crusades from an Occitan version of the Chronologia magna, by Paul of Venice.
Manuscript illumination from the famous Book of Hours, the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (1411–1416). God on his throne is surrounded by the Seraphs. Satan / Lucifer and the rebel angels fall into Hell, and fought off by Michael and his angels (depicted as knights).
Navigatio Brendani 11.17:
Nōs sumus dē illā magnā ruīnā antīquī hostis
An illustration from the Manuscriptum translationis germanicae (Cod. Pal. Germ. 60, fol. 179v, University Library of Heidelberg, Germany), written around 1460 AD.
The beginning of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Book I, from the manuscript Harley 4124 in the British Library.
The manuscript was created in the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Worksop, in the mid to late 12 century. The script is protogothic. The decorated initial "B" begins the word "Britannia."
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The beginning of Book I of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. From the early 12th-century manuscript Harley 3680, in the British Library.
The manuscript was created by two scribes in the cathedral priory of St. Andrew in Rochester in the 12th century. The script is protogothic. The decorated initial "B" begins the word "Brittania." For a detail of the decorated initial, click here.
Image source: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
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The first page of the Prologus of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica in the manuscript Harley 3680 in the collections of the British Library.
The manuscript was created by two scribes in the cathedral priory of St. Andrew in Rochester in the 12th century. The script is protogothic. The decorated initial "G" begins the word GLORIOSISSIMO.
Image source: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Used under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
