Viewing Medieval Manuscripts:
An Online "Slide Show"

Illuminated manuscripts are beautiful, but much more rewarding to look at when you know what to look for!

Here are online versions of eight slides, "discovery" questions, and answers, chosen to help teachers and their students explore medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts.

Nativity: The Collins Hours	King David and a Fool: A Thirteenth-Century Bible	Life of King David: Gallican Psalter	Historiated Initial M A Gradual (Music Book)
The Castle of Work	Inhabited Initial H: cutting from a Bible	Calendar Page from the "Henry VII Hours"	The Building and Destruction of Troy
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