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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;
Prudentius, Psychomachia and other poems , 10th century
MS 41;
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica , 11th century
MS 57;
Miscellany , (Rule of St. Benedict, Martyrology, etc.), 10th century
MS 183;
Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert and Genealogies , 10th century
MS 198;
Anglo-Saxon Homilies , 11th century
MS 326;
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 10th century
MS 389;
Vita S. Pauli Eremitae and Felix, Vita S. Guthlaci , 10th century
MS 411;
Psalter , 10th century
MS 421 (pp. 1, 2);
Anglo-Saxon Homilies , 11th century
MS 422 (pp. 27–586);
Red Book of Darley
Pembroke College
Trinity College
MS B. 10. 4 (215);
Trinity Gospels , 11th century
MS B. 11. 2 (241);
Amalarius, De ecclesiasticus officiis , 10th century
MS B. 14. 3 (289);
Arator, Historia apostolica , 10th century
MS B. 15. 34 (369);
Homilies in Anglo-Saxon, 11th century
MS B. 16. 3 (379);
Rabanus Maurus, De laude crucis , 10th century
MS O. 1. 18 (1042);
Enchiridion Augustini , 10th century
MS O. 2. 31 (1135);
Miscellany (Prosper, Cato, etc.), 10th century
MS O. 3. 7 (1179);
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae , 10th century
University Library
MS Ff. I. 23;
Psalter , 11th century
Copenhagen
Damme , Belgium
Durham
Florence
Hanover
Leiden
London
British Library
Add MS 24199, part 1;
Miscellany (Prudentius, Psychomachia), 10th century
Add MS 34890;
Grimbald Gospels
Add MS 37517;
Bosworth Psalter [
fr ]
Add MS 40618;
Gospel Book , 10th-century additions to 8th-/9th-century manuscript
Add MS 47967;
Tollemach Orosius , (Anglo-Saxon translation) 10th century
Add MS 49598;
Benedictional of St. Æthelwold , 10th century
Arundel MS 60;
Psalter (with Anglo-Saxon interlinear gloss), 11th century
Arundel MS 155;
Psalter (with interlinear Anglo-Saxon translations), 11th century
Cotton Caligula MS A VII (ff. 11–176);
Heliand , 10th century
Cotton Caligula MS A XIV (ff. 1–92);
Hereford Troper , 11th century
Cotton Caligula MS A XV;
Miscellany
Cotton Claudius MS B IV;
Old English Illustrated Hexateuch , early 11th century
Cotton Cleopatra MS A VI (ff. 2–53);
Miscellany (Grammatical treatises, etc.), 10th century
Cotton Cleopatra MS C VIII;
Prudentius, Psychomachia , 10th century
Cotton Galba MS A XVIII;
Aethelstan Psalter , 10th century (see also: Oxford, Bodleian Library; MS Rawl. B 484)
Cotton Julius MS A VI;
Calendar and Hymnal , 11th century
MS
Cotton Otho B II;
Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care ; 11th century
MS
Cotton Tiberius A III;
Miscellany , 11th century
Cotton Tiberius MS B I;
Orosius (King Alfred's translation), 11th century
Cotton Tiberius MS B V (Vol. 1);
Miscellany , 11th century
Cotton Tiberius MS C VI;
Psalter , 11th century
Cotton Titus MS D XXVI and D. XXVII;
Miscellany , 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;
Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert
Cotton Vitellius MS C III;
Herbal , 11th century
Harley MS 76
Bury Gospels
Harley MS 110;
Miscellany (Prosper, Isidore, etc.), 10th century
Harley MS 603;
Psalter , 11th century
Harley MS 1117 (ff. 2–42v, 45–62v);
Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert , 10th century
Harley MS 2506;
Cicero, Aratea ], 10th century
Harley MS 2904;
Psalter ], 10th Century
Harley MS 5431 (ff. 6–126);
Miscellany (Regula S. Benedicti, Statua antiqua, etc.), 10th century
Loan MS 11,
Kederminster Gospels , 11th century
Royal MS 1 D IX;
Gospel Book , 11th century
Royal MS 1 E VI;
Gospel Book , 9–11th century
Royal MS 1 E VII (f. 1v);
Bible , 11th century
Royal MS 5 E XI;
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 10th century
Royal MS 5 F III;
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 10th century
Royal MS 6 A VI;
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 10th century
Royal MS 6 A VII;
Life of St. Gregory , 11th century
Royal MS 6 B VIII (ff. 1–26);
Isidore, De fide catholica , 11th century
Royal MS 7 D XXIV;
Aldhem, De virginitate and Epistola Aldhelmi , 10th century
Royal MS 12 C XXIII;
Miscellany (Julian, Aldhelm, etc.), 10th century
Royal MS 15 A XVI (f. 84);
Miscellany , 9–10th century, 11th century drawing
Royal MS 15 B XIX;
Sedulius, Poems , 10th century
Stowe MS 2;
Psalter , 11th century
Stowe MS 944;
New Minster Register (Liber Vitae), 11th century
College of Arms
Lambeth Palace Library
Monte Cassino
Munich
New York
Orléans
Oxford
Bodleian Library
MS Auct. F. 1. 15 (S.C. 2455);
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae , 10th century
MS Auct. F. 4. 32 (S.C. 2176);
St. Dunstan's Classbook , 9th–10th century
MS Bodley 49 (S.C. 1946);
Aldhem, De virginitate , 10th century
MS Bodley 155 (S.C. 1974);
Gospel Book , 11th century
MS Bodley 340, 342 (S.C. 2404–5);
Homiliary , 11th century
MS Bodley 577 (S.C. 27645);
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 11th century
MS Bodley 579 (S.C. 2675);
Leofric Missal , 10th-century additions to 9th-century manuscript
MS Bodley 708 (S.C. 2609);
Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care , 11th century
MS Bodley 718 (S.C. 2632);
Penitential of Egbert ,
Collectio canonum quadripartita , 11th century
MS Douce 296 (S.C. 21870);
Psalter , 11th century
MS Digby 146;
Aldhelm, De virginitate , 10th century
MS Hatton 20 (S.C. 4113);
Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care , King Alfred's West Saxon version, 9th century
MS Junius 11 (S.C. 5123);
Caedmon manuscript
MS Junius 27 (S.C. 5139);
Junius Psalter , 10th century
MS Lat. lit. F. 5 (S.C. 29744);
St. Margaret Gospels , 11th century
MS Rawl. B 484, f. 85;
Aethelstan Psalter (see also: British Library, MS Cotton Galba A XVIII)
MS Rawl. C. 570;
Arator, Historia apostolica , 10th century
MS Tanner 3;
Gregory the Great, Dialogues , 11th century
MS Tanner 10 (S.C. 27694);
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica in Old English version, 10th century
Oriel College
MS 3;
Miscellany (Prudentius, Peristephanon, etc.), 10th century
St. John's College
Paris
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
MS 2410;
Miscellany (Iuvencus, Sedulius, etc.), 11th century
Bibliothèque Nationale
MS lat. 640 A;
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae , 10th century
MS lat. 943;
Sherborne Pontifical , 10th century
MS lat. 987;
Benedictional , 10th century
MS lat. 6401;
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae , 10th century
MS lat. 7585;
Isidor, Ethymologia , 10th century
MS lat. 8824;
Psalter , 11th century.
Link to color scan
MS lat. 17814;
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae , 10th century
Rheims
Rouen
Salisbury
Vatican
Vercelli
Warsaw
York
Further reading
Temple, Elzbieta. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: 900–1066 . London; Harvey Miller, 1976.