Published resources for finding images in manuscripts

Most of the publications listed here are published by the British Library, and many are in print and available from our online Bookshop.

General publications

• Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, 1997 • Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours, 2005 • Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours, 1985 • Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript, 1979 • Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400­1500, 2003 • Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, 1983 • British Museum, Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I­V, 1923­ 1965.

Individual famous manuscripts

• Janet Backhouse, The Bedford Hours, 1990 • Janet Backhouse, The Isabella Breviary, 1993 • Janet Backhouse, The Lindisfarne Gospels, 1981 • Janet Backhouse, The Luttrell Psalter, 1989 • Claire Donovan, The de Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in 13th­century Oxford, 1990 • A. S. G. Edwards, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr ­ A Facsimile, 2004 • Mark Evans, The Sforza Hours, 1992 • Dominic Marner, St. Cuthbert: His Life and Cult in Medieval Durham, 2000 • E. G. Millar, The Lindisfarne Gospels, 1923 • E. G. Millar, The Luttrell Psalter, 1932 • Andrew Prescott, The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo­ Saxon Art ­ A Facsimile, 2002 • G. F. Warner, Queen Mary's Psalter, 1912. Themes

Anglo­Saxon

• Michelle Brown, Anglo­Saxon Manuscripts, 199.1

Astrology

• Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts, 2002 • T S. Pattie, Astrology, 1980.

Animals

• Ann Payne, Medieval Beasts, 1990.

Birds

• Janet Backhouse, Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal, 2001.

Documents

• Andrew Prescott, English Historical Documents, 1988.

Flowers

• Celia Fisher, Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts, 2004.

Literature

• Hilton Kelliher, English Literary Manuscripts, 1986.

Magic

• Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts, 2004

Maps, Topography

• P. D. A. Harvey, Medieval Maps, 1991 • Ann Payne, Views of the Past, 1987.

Medicine

• Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984 • Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Medieval Manuscripts, 1998. Medieval life

• Janet Backhouse, Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter, 2000 • P Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts, 1997 • Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts, 2003 • Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts, 1997.

Monsters

• Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts, 2002

Music

• Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts, 2001 • Arthur Searle, Music Manuscripts, 1987.

Religion

• Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts, 2003.