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- Title
- Leaf from a Book of Hours
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Physical Description
- This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1425
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.9
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- relevance
- rank 12.62532
- Primary Keywords
- christianity
- floral patterns
- illuminated manuscripts
- illuminations
- manuscripts
- prayer books
- Title
- La Faute d'Orthograph (Mea Culpa)
- Artist
- Marcel Broodthaers
- Artist Life Dates
- 1924 - 1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1964
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.139
- Medium and Support
- offset lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.74765
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- Title
- Manuscript Leaf
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian (Venetian)
- Object Creation Date
- 1453
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.11
- Medium and Support
- ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.74765
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- Title
- Moon Shot
- Artist
- Lowell Nesbitt
- Artist Life Dates
- 1933-1993
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 1991/2.109.4
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.74765
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Brown ink notes and lettering with red staff lines and some red lettering with a decorated letter.
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.7A&B
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- text
- Title
- Mohammedan Law, manuscript page
- Artist
- Turkey
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.9
- Medium and Support
- ink and color, burnished gold on egg-white glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Illuminated leaf with floriated border, Arabic lettering with gold leaf, blue and red designs with black lettering.
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.1A&B
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- text
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript page: Monks and Devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- The horizontal folio from a Kalpasutra manuscript consists of seven lines of text to the left and center broken by a squarish gold symbol framed in a red line and cusped blue lines. Gold diamond shapes framed in red are at the sides, with a vertical red line between the one on the left and the text. Between the text and the right diamond shape there is a painting consisting of three registers of figures against a red ground. The top row depicts three laymen wearing crowns, the middle two monks and a nun and the bottom row three nuns.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1450
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.116
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- jainism
- manuscripts
- monks
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- One coumn of text on right with decorated border on left, brown and red lettering and two decorated letters.
- Century
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.4A&B
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- text
- Title
- Page from a Chorale: Last Judgment?
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- before6/30/46.10
- Medium and Support
- tempera on parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- chorales
- last judgment
- manuscripts
- Title
- Decorative calligraphy, manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1967/2.2
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- Title
- Mohammedan Law, manuscript page
- Artist
- Turkey
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1794
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.153
- Medium and Support
- ink on egg-glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- Title
- Qur’an manuscript leaf in Maghribi script
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, North Africa
- Physical Description
- Arabic calligraphic script on paper; script is in Maghribi style, written in black ink with touches of green and rec ochre. Shadows of script (from reverse or opposite page, transferred while closed?) show through. Beige paper is browned with age at edges; upper left has repaired tear.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.146
- Medium and Support
- ink, red ochre, paper on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islam
- manuscripts
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Two columns of text with a large decorated letter and an ornate floral border of blue, gold and brown.
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.3A&B
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- text
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Two columnbs of black and red text wtih decorated letters in blue, red and gold leaf.
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.5
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.55316
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- text
- Title
- Declaration of Independence
- Artist
- Ward Ritchie
- Artist Life Dates
- 1905-1982
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Accession Number
- 1935.11
- Medium and Support
- photolithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- declaration of independence
- manuscripts
- wpa
- Title
- Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Syria
- Century
- Late 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.3
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- christianity
- death
- manuscripts
- Title
- Palm Leaf from an Unidentified Manuscript with Devanagiri (?) script
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Century
- 17th century?
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.41
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf darkened with coal dust
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- manuscripts
- palm tree
- Title
- Persian poetry and proverbs anthology, manuscript leaf
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
- Century
- Late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.10
- Medium and Support
- ink and color, with touches of gold leaf on thin, glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- poetry
- Title
- Declaration of Independence
- Artist
- Ward Ritchie
- Artist Life Dates
- 1905-1982
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Accession Number
- 1935.12
- Medium and Support
- photolithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- declaration of independence
- manuscripts
- wpa
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Leaf from a Kalpasutra manuscript with calligraphic text. Font size varies, and in the center of the leaf text wraps around a blank box of parchment with a red dot in the center. To the left of this main text block is a colorful illustration of an enthroned figure in a dotted robe flanked by devotees. Surrounding him are various auspicious symbols.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.247
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- jainism
- manuscripts
- monks
- Title
- Libyan Sibyl, a leaf from an early printed book
- Artist
- Simon Vostre
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.79
- Medium and Support
- tempera and gold on vellum
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- decorated initial
- manuscripts
- Title
- Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Syria
- Century
- late 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.147
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- christianity
- death
- manuscripts
- Title
- Persian poetry and proverbs anthology manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.155
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- flowers
- islamic
- manuscripts
- Title
- Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.152
- Medium and Support
- ink, color and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- poetry
- Title
- Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
- Artist
- Anonymous French (Normandy)
- Physical Description
- This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1430
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.43
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on thin parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- churches
- interiors
- manuscripts
- priests
- Title
- Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- late 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.8
- Medium and Support
- ink, color, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.45913
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- poetry
- Title
- Qur’an manuscript page
- Artist
- African, North Morocco
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.11
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur’an manuscript leaf in Abbasid Kufic script
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iraq or Iran
- Century
- 8th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 701-900
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.109
- Medium and Support
- brown ink with touches of red on natural parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf in thuluth and naskh script, chapters 83–85 (recto and verso)
- Artist
- Egypt or Syria
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century - 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.145
- Medium and Support
- black ink, red, gold, and touches of blue on egg-glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Leaf from a psalter or book of hours (Psalm 26)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, England or France
- Physical Description
- This manuscript leaf contains a single column of text in Latin surrounded by generous margins on three sides. Pen-flourished initials elaborated with delicate penwork, colored red and blue alternating with gold and purple, mark the beginning of each verse along the left edge of the text column. Five line-fillers, long linear elements colored blue and gold, complete the closing line of each verse and preserve the regular shape of the text block.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1450
- Accession Number
- 1965/2.81
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- christianity
- illuminations
- manuscripts
- prayer books
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.95
- Medium and Support
- tempera, ink and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Manuscript Cabinet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Physical Description
- Manuscript cabinet decorated with two celestial beings making the gesture of worship and respect (anjalimudra) on front doors. The hands and faces of these figures are carved in particularly high relief, making them seem to interact with the worshipper, a feeling enhanced by the reflection of the background inserts.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1930-1949
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.467
- Medium and Support
- lacquered and gilt wood with glazed metal inserts
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- cabinet (case furniture)
- manuscripts
- wood
- Title
- Illuminated Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- One column of text with gold leaf, red and blue lettering. Picture and figures on the right.
- Object Creation Date
- 1462
- Accession Number
- 2015/2.6A&B
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- manuscripts
- medieval
- religious materials
- text
- Title
- Leaf from a manuscript of the Qur’an in Maghribi script
- Artist
- African, North Africa
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century (?)
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.2
- Medium and Support
- ink with touches or red, ochre, and green on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf in early or Abbasid Kufic script, ch. 38, verses 21-23
- Artist
- Iraq
- Century
- 8th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 8th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.354
- Medium and Support
- brown ink with gold and touches of red on natural parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf in small naskh script, chapter 22, verse 40
- Artist
- Turkey
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century (?)
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.12
- Medium and Support
- ink, gold, and touches of red on fine paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf, illuminated section heading in thuluth script
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iraq or Iran
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1996/2.54
- Medium and Support
- ink, color and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf in thuluth and naskh script, chapter 4, verses 480–90
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Egypt or Syria
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century - 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.1
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on egg-glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur’an manuscript page
- Artist
- African, Morocco
- Physical Description
- A page from a Qur'an manuscript.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.156
- Medium and Support
- Ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Qur'an manuscript leaf in small naskh script, chapter 20, verse 87
- Artist
- Turkey
- Century
- Late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century (?)
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.157
- Medium and Support
- ink and gold with touches of red on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.36714
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- islamic
- manuscripts
- qur'an
- Title
- Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence
- Artist
- Ludovico de Gaci
- Physical Description
- This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, "C," of the opening word "Confessio" is made from a curved vegetal form. The text is preceded by a painted miniature in a circular frame that is, in turn, enclosed by a golden square. The miniature depicts a man with a tonsure and a golden halo standing in a verdant landscape. He holds a palm leaf in his left hand and rests his right hand on a grill. The left and upper margins of the page are decorated with green and pink leaves and flowers and small gold circles.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1489
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.85
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.27713
- Primary Keywords
- choirbooks
- christianity
- cremona (province)
- grille
- manuscripts
- Title
- Leaf from a Bible with decorated initial and vegetal ornament
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Armenia
- Physical Description
- This page from a manuscript features two columns of text written in Armenian. An animal-shaped initial, composed of two stylized birds pecking one another, appears in the lower right column. The lower left margin is decorated with a sidebar that elegantly combines geometric and plant motifs. The decorative elements are painted in pink and blue with touches of reddish orange.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1958/1.162
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 8.27713
- Primary Keywords
- armenia (nation)
- bible
- christianity
- illuminations
- manuscripts
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: The Courtesan Kosha and the King's Charioteer (fol. no. 102v)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Alongside a block of calligraphic text a red rectable sets off an illustrative space. In the bottom right corner of the illustration a woman dances, and on the left a larger figure pulls an arrow taught in a bow.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.39
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.27713
- Primary Keywords
- arrow
- bow (weapon)
- calligraphy
- dancer
- manuscripts
- Title
- Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet
- Physical Description
- A fragment of a horizontal scroll, which would originally have been rolled up and tucked inside a Tibetan prayer wheel, with the text of a prayer printed in red and black ink.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.158
- Medium and Support
- red and black ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.27713
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- calligraphy
- fragment
- handscrolls
- himalayan
- manuscripts
- Title
- Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass
- Artist
- Gold Scrolls Group
- Physical Description
- This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.
- Artist Life Dates
- active circa 1415-1450
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1415-1455
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.8
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.18903
- Primary Keywords
- candles
- candlesticks
- christianity
- coffins
- funerals
- manuscripts
- mourners
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Worshippers gather and seem to celebrate around a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk at top center. Flanking these figures are two searted drummers. In the lower register men on horseback and elephant look up to them as the ride by and raise their weapons in battle. A trumpeter sounds his instrument in the bottom left.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.168
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.10279
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- drums (membranophones)
- horse
- jain
- jainism
- manuscripts
- worshippers
- Title
- Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Physical Description
- Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1290
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.10
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- relevance
- rank 8.10279
- Primary Keywords
- angels
- bible
- bread
- christianity
- jugs (pitchers)
- lions
- manuscripts
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi from Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A nude monk on the top left sits before a Jina at top right. Three Hindu gods, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi venerate the Jina in the bottom registers.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.164
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.01835
- Primary Keywords
- bull
- bulls
- deity
- figures
- manuscripts
- monk
- monsters
- seated
- winged
- Title
- Cuttings from an illuminated manuscript consisting of several decorative border pieces, containing dolphins, cherubs, portrait cameos and the arms of Cardinal Antonio Pallavicini.
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian (Florentine?)
- Century
- late 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1489(?)
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.10
- Medium and Support
- tempera and gold leaf on vellum
- relevance
- rank 8.01835
- Primary Keywords
- boy
- child
- children
- figures
- flowers
- manuscripts
- nudes
- portraits
- workers