List of illuminated manuscripts

This is a list of illustrated or decorated European manuscripts from the invention of the codex through the invention of the printing press.

4th Century

• Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Cod. lat. fol. 416, and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3256 (Vergilius Augusteus)

5th Century

• Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. lat. fol. 485 (Quedlinburg Itala fragment)
• London, British Library, MS Royal I. D. V-VIII (Codex Alexandrinus)
• Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225 (Vergilius Vaticanus)
• Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867 (Vergilius Romanus)

6th Century

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 286 (St. Augustine Gospels)
• Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo Lauenziana, cod. Plut. I, 56 (Rabula Gospels)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho B. VI (Cotton Genesis)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 1286 (Sinope Gospels)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334 (Ashburnham Pentateuch).
• Rossano, Cathedral, Archepiscopal Treasury, s. n. (Rossano Gospels)
• Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1. (Vienna Dioscurides)
• Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. theol. gr. 31 (Vienna Genesis)
• Würzburg, Universtätsbibliothek, Cod. M. p. th. F. 68 (Burchard Gospels)

7th Century

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, s. n. (Cathach of St. Columba)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 55 (Codex Usserianus Primus (Ussher Gospels)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 57 (Book of Durrow)
• Durham, Cathedral Library, MSS A. II. 10 ff. 2-5, 338-8a, C. III. 13, ff. 192-5, and C. III. 20, ff. 1, 2 (Durham Cathedral Library A. II. 10. Gospel Book Fragment)
• Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 17, 2-102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (19) (Durham Gospels)
• Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatinus 1 (Codex Amiatinus)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 5111, Byzantine Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 5111. Gospel Book)
• Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS D. 23. sup. (Bobbio Orosius (Ambrosiana Orosius))
• Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS S. 45. sup. (Bobbio Jerome (Ambrosiana Jerome))
• Monza, Cathedral Treasury, s. n. (Gospels of Queen Theodelinda)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341, Syriac Bible)

8th Century

• Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS Hamilton 553 (Salaberga Psalter)
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp.245-316) and London, British Library, Cotton MS Otho C. V (Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 58 (Book of Kells)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 59 (Book of Dimma)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 60 (Book of Mulling)
• Durham, Cathedral Library, MSS A. II. 16, ff. 1-23, 34-86, 102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (18) (Durham Cathedral Library A. II. 16. Gospel Book Fragment)
• Durham, Cathedral Library, MS B. II. 30 (Durham Cassiodorus)
• Freiburg-im-Breisga, Universitatbibliothek, Cod. 702 (Freiburg Gospel Book Fragment)
• Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Cod. Memb I. 18 (Gotha Gospel Book)
• Hereford, Cathedral Library, MS P. I. 2 (Hereford Gospels)
• Lichfield, Cathedral Library, (Lichfield Gospels (Book of St. Chad))
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D. IV (Lindisfarne Gospels)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II (Tiberius Bede)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A. I (Vespasian Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Royal I. B. VII (Royal Gospel Book)
• Maaseik, Church of St. Catherine, Treasury, s. n. (Maaseik Gospel Book)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 19 (S. C. 3946) (Macregol Gospels (Rushworth Gospels))
• Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 599 (Saint-Martin-des-Champs Gospels)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 281, 298 (Codex Bigotianus)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9389 (Echternach Gospels)
• St. Petersburg, Public Library, Cod. F. v. I. 8 (Leningrad Gospels (St. Petersburg Gospels))
• St. Petersburg, Public Library, Cod. Q. v. I. 18 (Leningrad Bede (St. Petersburg Bede))
• Stockholm, Royal Library MS A. 135 (Stockholm Codex Aureus)
• Trier, Domschatz, Codex 61 (Bibliotheksnummer 134) (Trier Gospels)
• Trier, Staatsbibliothek, Cod.22 (Ada Gospels)
• Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 31, (Trier Apocalypse)
• Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Barberini Lat. 570 (Barberini Gospels)
• Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1224 (Cutbercht Gospels)

9th Century

• Aachen, Cathedral Treasury, s. n. (Aachen Gospels)
• Cambridge, University Library, MS L1. 1. 10 (Book of Cerne)
• Bern, Burgerbibliothex, Codex Bongarsianus 318 (Bern Physiologus)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52 (Book of Armagh)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 56 (Codex Usserianus Secundus (Garland of Howth))
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D. II. 3, ff. 12-67 (Stowe Missal)
• Epernay, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 1 (Ebbo Gospels)
• Fulda, Landesbibliothek, Codex Bonifatianus 3 (Cadmug Gospel Book)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 10546. (Moutier-Grandval Bible)
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 768. Gospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 768. Gospel Book)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 2788 (Harley Golden Gospels)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 2965 (Book of Nunnaminster)
• London, British Library, MS Royal I. E. VI and Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional MS 16 (Canterbury Bible (Canterbury Gospel Book))
• Montpellier, Bibliothèque de l'université, 409 (Montpellier Psalter)
• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14000 (Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 1 (Lindau Gospels)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1 (First Bible of Charles the Bald)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 2 (Second Bible of Charles the Bald)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8847 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8847, Bible fragment)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8850 (Gospels of St. Medard de Soissons)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9428 (Drogo Sacramentary)
• Stuttgart, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Bibl. 2. 12 (Stuttgart Psalter)
• Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 32 (Utrecht Psalter)

10th Century

• Aachen, Cathedral Tresury, s. n. (Aachen Gospels of Otto III)
• Cambridge,Corpus Christi College, MS 183 (Corpus Bede)
• Cambridge, St. John's College, MS C. 9 (59) (Southampton Psalter)
• Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 6. 32 (Book of Deer)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 28815. Byzantine Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 28815. Gospel Book
• London, British Library, MS Add. 34890 (Grimbald Gospels)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 49598 (Benedictional of St. Æthelwold)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 603 (Harley Psalter)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 644 (Morgan Beatus)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 652 (Morgan Dioscurides)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 10 (Tanner Bede)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 27 (Codex Vossanius)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 139 (Paris Psalter)

11th Century

• Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, MS W.530B (Vatopedi Psalter)
• Hildesheim, Church of St. Godehard (St. Albans Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 11695 (Silos Apocalypse)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 30337. Exultet Roll (British Library, MS Add. 30337. Exultet Roll)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 40731. Byzantine Psalter (British Library, MS Add. 40731. Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A X. V. (British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A X. V.)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberias C. VI (Cotton Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Vitellius F. XI (Vitellius Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 2821. Ottonian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Harley 2821. Gospel Book)
• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452 (Pericopes of Henry II)
• Nuremburg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, MS 156142 (Codex Aureus of Echternach)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878 (Apocalypse of Saint-Sever)

12th Century

• Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library, MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary)
• Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 1 (Bible of Hugh de Puiset)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 11870 Simeon Metaphrastes' Lives of Saints. (British Library, MS Add. 11870 Simeon Metaphrastes)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 17738 (Floreffe Bible)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula, A. VII. (British Library, MS Cotton Caligula, A. VII)
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero C. IV. (Winchester Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1139 (Melisende Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 2803 (Worms Bible)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 4751. Bestiary (British Library, MS Harley 4751. Bestiary)
• London, British Library, MS Royal 2A XXII. (Westminster Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 26. Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert (Yates Thompson Bede)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough lit. 2 (Gough Psalter)
• Winchester, Cathedral Library, s. n. (Winchester Bible)

13th Century

• Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery MS 759 (Beaupre Antiphonary)
• Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 16. 2 (Trinity Apocalypse)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS E. I. 40 (Dublin Life of Saint Alban)
• Leeds, Royal Armories, British Museum No. 14 E iii, No. 20, D. vi., (I.33)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 50000 (Oscott Psalter)
• London, Society of Antiquaries, MS 59 (Psalter of Robert de Lindesey)
• Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS lat. 24 (Missal of Henry of Chichester)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 302 and St. Paul in Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, MS XXV/2 (Ramsey Psalter)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 710 (Berthold Missal)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 729 (The Psalter and Hours of Yolande of Soissons)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 180 (Douce Apocalypse)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 403 (Paris Apocalypse)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10525 (Psalter of St. Louis)
• Cantigas de Santa Maria

14th Century

• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 64 (Dublin Apocalypse)
• Geneva, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, MS Fr. 2 (Geneva Bible Historiale)
• London, British Library, MSS Add. 29704, 29705, 44892 (Carmelite Missal)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 42130. (Windmill Psalter (Luttrell Psalter))
• London, British Library, MS Add. 49622 (Gorleston Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Arundel 83 pt. 2 (De Lisle Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 14 (St. Omer Psalter)
• London, Westminster Abbey, MS 37 (Missal of Abbot Nicholas Lytlington)
• London, Westminster Abbey, MS 38 (Liber Regalis)
• New York, The Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux)
• New York, The Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Psalter of Bonne de Luxembourg)
• New York, Public Library, Spencer Collection MS 26 (Tickhill Psalter)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 366 (Ormesby Psalter)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 167 (Bible Moralisée of Jean le Bon)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 1584 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 1584 Works of Guillaume de Machaut)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 2090-2092 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MSs fr. 2090-2092 Life of Saint Denis)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10483-10484 (Belleville Breviary)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 861 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. Missal for the Use of Paris)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1052 (Breviary of Charles V)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 2813 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 2813 Grandes Chroniques de France)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 18014 (Petites Heures du Duc du Berry)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. fr. 24541 (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. fr. 24541 Miracles of Our Lady)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Nouv. Acq. lat. 3145 (Hours of Jeanne de Navarre)
• Prague, National Library, MS A. 17, XIV (Passional of Abbess Kunigunde)
• Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1826 (Vienna Bohun Psalter)

15th Century

• Alnwick Castle, Collection of the Duke of Northumberland (Sherborne Missal)
• Cambrai, Bibliotheque Municipal, MS 422 (Cambrai Apocalypse)
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (Corpus Troilus)
• Chantilly, Musée Condé, (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 42131 (Psalter and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 50001 (Hours of Elizabeth the Queen)
• London, British Library, MS Royal 2 A. XVIII (Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 893 (Psalter and Hours of Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 945 and M. 917 (Hours of Catherine of Cleves)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 227 (Abingdon Missal)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9471 (Grandes Heures du Duc de Rohan)
• Ranworth, St. Helen's Church, s. n. (Ranworth Antiphoner)

Unknown

• Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, MS M. 17. 4 (Antwerp Sedulius)
• Berlin, Kupferstichkabinet Blatt, Inv. No. 1247
• Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS II.282
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 20 (Corpus Apocalypse)
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 394
• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS Add. 317
• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 123 (Nuneaton Book)
• Cambridge, Magdelene College, MS F. 4. 5 (Crowland Apocalypse)
• Cambridge, Magdelene College, MS Pepys 1803 (Pepys Apocalypse)
• Cambridge, Trinity College MS, B. 10 .2
• Cambridge, Trinity College MS, B. 10 .6
• Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg 1. 1
• Cologne, Dombibliothek, Cod. 213 (Cologne Collectio Canonum)
• Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliothek MS Thott 89.4
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D. II. 3, ff. 1-11 (Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3 Gospel of St. John)
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 50 (Ricemarch Psalter)
• Eton College, Library, MS 177 (Eton Apocalypse)
• Harburg uber Donauworth, Schloss Harburg, Furstlich Ottingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek Cod. I. 2. 4. 2 (Olin Maihingen) (Harburg Gospel Book)
• Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek Cod. CLXVII (Karlsruhe Bede)
• Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS. B. P. L. 67 (Leiden Priscian)
• Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS Voss. lat. F. 4, ff. 4-33 (Leiden Pliny)
• Leipzig, Universitatsbibliothek, MSS Rep. I, 58a and Rep. 35a (Leipzig Gospel Book Fragment)
• Lisbon, Gulbenkian Museum MS L.A.139 (Gulbenkian Apocalypse)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 18633
• London, British Library, MS Add. 22493
• London, British Library, MS Add. 35166
• London, British Library, MS Add. 36929 (British Library Add. MS. 36929 Psalter)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 38842
• London, British Library, MS Add. 40618 (British Library Add. MS. 40618 Gospel Book)
• London, British Library, MS Add. 42555 (Abingdon Apocalypse)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 1023 (British Library Harley MS 1023 Gospel Book)
• London, British Library, MS Harley 1802 (British Library Harley MS 1802 Gospel Book)
• London, British Library, MS Royal 2. A. XX (Royal Prayer Book)
• London, British Library, MS Royal 2. D. XIII
• London, British Library, MS Royal 15. D. II (Welles/Greenfield Apocalypse)
• London, British Library, MS Royal 19. B. XV (Queen Mary Apocalypse)
• London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 75
• London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 209 (Lambeth Apocalypse)
• London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 434
• London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1370 (Macdurnan Gospels)
• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig III.1 (Getty/Dyson Perins Apocalypse)
• Metz, Bibliotheque Municipal, MS Salis 38 (no longer extant) (Metz Apocalypse)
• Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C. 301. inf. (Milan Theodore)
• Moscow, State Lenin Library, MS NH.1678
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 524 (Morgan Apocalypse)
• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 776 (Lothian Psalter)
• New York, Public Library, MS Spencer 57 (Spencer Apocalypse)
• Norwich, Central Library MS 287 (Norwich Apocalypse)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 753
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct D.4.14
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct D.4.17 (Bodleian Apocalypse)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32, ff. 37-47 (S. C. 2176)(Bodleian Ovid)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 401
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 426 (S. C. 2327) (Bodleian Philippus)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici Bibl.62 (Canonici Apocalypse)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson G. 167 (S.C. no. 14890) (Rawlinson Gospel Book)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 38 (Selden Apocalypse)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 184 (Tanner Apocalypse)
• Oxford, Lincoln College, MS lat.16
• Oxford, New College, MS D.65 (New College Apocalypse)
• Oxford, University College, MS 100
• Paris, Bibliothèque de Arsenal, MS 592 (Arsenal Gospels)
• Paris, Bibliothèque de Arsenal, MS 5214
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Coislin 79
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr.9574
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 510 (Paris Nazianzus)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10474
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10861 (Bibliotheque Nationale MS lat. 10861 Lives of Saints)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1587 (Bibliotheque Nationale MS nouv. acq. lat. 1587 Gospel Book)
• St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 51 (St. Gall Gospel Book)
• St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 60 (St. Gall Gospel of St. John)
• St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 904 (St. Gall Priscian)
• St. Petersburg, Public Library Cod. Q. v. XIV. 1 (Leningrad Paulinus)
• Toulouse, Bibliotheque Municipal MS 815
• Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. O. IV. 20 (Turin Gospel Book Fragment)
• Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS 32 (Script. eccl. 484, ff. 94-105 (Utrecht Gospel Book Fragment)
• Valenciennes, Bibliotheque Municipale MS 99 (Valenciennes Apocalypse)
• Würzburg, Universtätsbibliothek Cod. M. p. th. F. 69 (Wurzburg St. Paul)
• Yorkshire, private collection (Yorkshire Apocalypse)