List of illuminated later Anglo-Saxon manuscripts

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This is a listing of illuminated manuscripts produced between 900 and 1066 in Anglo-Saxon monasteries, or by Anglo-Saxon scribes or illuminators working in continental scriptoria. This list includes manuscripts in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. For manuscripts produced before 900 see the List of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts.

The invasions during the reign of King Alfred the Great created a disruption in the manuscript production in England. When manuscript production resumed in the later portion of Alfred's reign, a break with the previous Insular style of manuscript illumination occurred. The new style, although drawing some elements from Insular manuscripts, also was influenced by Carolingian, Byzantine, and Mediterranean traditions. The Norman Conquest produced another break in English manuscript production which ended the Anglo-Saxon tradition of manuscript illumination. For more information see Anglo-Saxon art.

Listing[]

This listing includes every surviving manuscript with Anglo-Saxon miniatures, drawings, or other major decoration. It also includes a representative sample of manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon pen-work initials. The manuscripts are sorted by their current location.

  • Besançon
  • Boulogne
  • Cambridge
    • Corpus Christi College
      • MS 23; , 10th century
      • MS 41; , 11th century
      • MS 57; , (Rule of St. Benedict, Martyrology, etc.), 10th century
      • MS 183; , 10th century
      • MS 198; , 11th century
      • MS 326; , 10th century
      • MS 389; , 10th century
      • MS 411; , 10th century
      • MS 421 (pp. 1, 2); , 11th century
      • MS 422 (pp. 27–586);
    • Pembroke College
    • Trinity College
      • MS B. 10. 4 (215); , 11th century
      • MS B. 11. 2 (241); , 10th century
      • MS B. 14. 3 (289); , 10th century
      • MS B. 15. 34 (369); in Anglo-Saxon, 11th century
      • MS B. 16. 3 (379); , 10th century
      • MS O. 1. 18 (1042); , 10th century
      • MS O. 2. 31 (1135); (Prosper, Cato, etc.), 10th century
      • MS O. 3. 7 (1179); , 10th century
    • University Library
      • MS Ff. I. 23; , 11th century
  • Copenhagen
    • Royal Library
      • G.K.S. 10, 2°; , 11th century
  • Damme, Belgium
      • s.n.; , 11th century
  • Durham
      • MS A IV 19; (Durham Ritual), 10th century
      • MS B III 32; , 11th century
  • Florence
    • Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana
      • MS Plut. XVII. 20; , 11th century
  • Hanover
    • Kestner-Museum
      • WM XXIa 36; , 11th century
  • Leiden
      • Cod. Scaligeranus 69; , 10th century
  • London
    • British Library
      • Add MS 24199, part 1; (Prudentius, Psychomachia), 10th century
      • Add MS 34890; Grimbald Gospels
      • Add MS 37517;  [fr]
      • Add MS 40618; Gospel Book, 10th-century additions to 8th-/9th-century manuscript
      • Add MS 47967; , (Anglo-Saxon translation) 10th century
      • Add MS 49598; Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, 10th century
      • Arundel MS 60; (with Anglo-Saxon interlinear gloss), 11th century
      • Arundel MS 155; (with interlinear Anglo-Saxon translations), 11th century
      • Cotton Caligula MS A VII (ff. 11–176); , 10th century
      • Cotton Caligula MS A XIV (ff. 1–92); , 11th century
      • Cotton Caligula MS A XV;
      • Cotton Claudius MS B IV; Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, early 11th century
      • Cotton Cleopatra MS A VI (ff. 2–53); (Grammatical treatises, etc.), 10th century
      • Cotton Cleopatra MS C VIII; , 10th century
      • Cotton Galba MS A XVIII; , 10th century (see also: Oxford, Bodleian Library; MS Rawl. B 484)
      • Cotton Julius MS A VI; , 11th century
      • MS Cotton Otho B II; ; 11th century
      • MS Cotton Tiberius A III; , 11th century
      • Cotton Tiberius MS B I; (King Alfred's translation), 11th century
      • Cotton Tiberius MS B V (Vol. 1); , 11th century
      • Cotton Tiberius MS C VI; , 11th century
      • Cotton Titus MS D XXVI and D. XXVII; , 11th century
      • Cotton Vespasian MS A. VIII (ff. 2v–33v); New Minster Charter, 10th century
      • Cotton Vitellius MS A XV; Nowell Codex (Beowulf manuscript), 10th century
      • Cotton Vitellius MS A XIX;
      • Cotton Vitellius MS C III; , 11th century
      • Harley MS 76
      • Harley MS 110; (Prosper, Isidore, etc.), 10th century
      • Harley MS 603; , 11th century
      • Harley MS 1117 (ff. 2–42v, 45–62v); , 10th century
      • Harley MS 2506; ], 10th century
      • Harley MS 2904; ], 10th Century
      • Harley MS 5431 (ff. 6–126); (Regula S. Benedicti, Statua antiqua, etc.), 10th century
      • Loan MS 11, , 11th century
      • Royal MS 1 D IX; , 11th century
      • Royal MS 1 E VI; , 11th century
      • Royal MS 1 E VII (f. 1v); , 11th century
      • Royal MS 5 E XI; , 10th century
      • Royal MS 5 F III; , 10th century
      • Royal MS 6 A VI; , 10th century
      • Royal MS 6 A VII; , 11th century
      • Royal MS 6 B VIII (ff. 1–26); , 11th century
      • Royal MS 7 D XXIV; , 10th century
      • Royal MS 12 C XXIII; (Julian, Aldhelm, etc.), 10th century
      • Royal MS 15 A XVI (f. 84); , 9–10th century, 11th century drawing
      • Royal MS 15 B XIX; Sedulius, Poems, 10th century
      • Stowe MS 2; Psalter, 11th century
      • Stowe MS 944; (Liber Vitae), 11th century
    • College of Arms
      • Arundel MS 22 (ff. 84–85v); , 10th century
    • Lambeth Palace Library
      • MS 200 (Part II); , 10th century
      • MS 204; , 11th century
  • Monte Cassino
      • MS BB. 437, 439; , 11th century
  • Munich
    • Staatsbibliothek
      • CLM. 29031b; , 10th century
  • New York
    • Pierpont Morgan Library
      • M. 33; , 11th century
      • MS 708; , 11th Century
      • MS 709; , 11th Century
      • MS 827; , 11th century
      • MS 869; , 10th century
  • Orléans
      • MS 105; , 10th century
      • MS 175; , 10th century
  • Oxford
    • Bodleian Library
      • MS Auct. F. 1. 15 (S.C. 2455); , 10th century
      • MS Auct. F. 4. 32 (S.C. 2176); , 9th–10th century
      • MS Bodley 49 (S.C. 1946); , 10th century
      • MS Bodley 155 (S.C. 1974); , 11th century
      • MS Bodley 340, 342 (S.C. 2404–5); , 11th century
      • MS Bodley 577 (S.C. 27645); , 11th century
      • MS Bodley 579 (S.C. 2675); Leofric Missal, 10th-century additions to 9th-century manuscript
      • MS Bodley 708 (S.C. 2609); , 11th century
      • MS Bodley 718 (S.C. 2632); Penitential of Egbert, Collectio canonum quadripartita, 11th century
      • MS Douce 296 (S.C. 21870); , 11th century
      • MS Digby 146; , 10th century
      • MS Hatton 20 (S.C. 4113); , King Alfred's West Saxon version, 9th century
      • MS Junius 11 (S.C. 5123); Caedmon manuscript
      • MS Junius 27 (S.C. 5139); , 10th century
      • MS Lat. lit. F. 5 (S.C. 29744); , 11th century
      • MS Rawl. B 484, f. 85; (see also: British Library, MS Cotton Galba A XVIII)
      • MS Rawl. C. 570; , 10th century
      • MS Tanner 3; , 11th century
      • MS Tanner 10 (S.C. 27694); in Old English version, 10th century
    • Oriel College
      • MS 3; (Prudentius, Peristephanon, etc.), 10th century
    • St. John's College
      • MS 28; , 10th century
      • MS 194 (f. 1v); , 10th-century drawing in 9th-century manuscript
  • Paris
  • Rheims
      • MS 9; , 11th century
  • Rouen
      • MS A. 27 (368); , 11th century
      • MS Y. 6 (274);  [fr], 11th century
      • MS Y. 7 (369);  [fr], 10th century
  • Salisbury
  • Vatican
    • Biblioteca Apostolica
      • MS Reg. lat. 12;
      • MS Reg. lat. 1671; , 10th century
  • Vercelli
    • Cathedral
      • Codex CVII; in Anglo-Saxon, 10th century
  • Warsaw
    • Biblioteka Narodowa
      • MS I. 3311; , 11th century
  • York

Further reading[]

  • Temple, Elzbieta. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: 900–1066. London; Harvey Miller, 1976.

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