This is a listing of

illuminated manuscript An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the ...

s produced between 900 and 1066 in

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

monasteries, or by Anglo-Saxon

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

s or illuminators working in continental scriptoria. This list includes manuscripts in Latin and

. For manuscripts produced before 900 see the

List of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those manuscripts made in Ireland and Great Britain from about 500 CE to about 900 CE in England, but later in Ireland and elsewhere, or those manuscripts made on the continent in scriptoria founded by Hiberno ...

. The invasions during the reign of King

Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who bot ...

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 Insular is an adjective used to describe: * An island * Someone who is isolated and parochial Insular may also refer to: Sub-national territories or regions * Insular Chile * Insular region of Colombia * Insular Ecuador, administratively known ...

style of manuscript illumination occurred. The new style, although drawing some elements from Insular manuscripts, also was influenced by

Carolingian The Carolingian dynasty (; known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charlemagne, grandson of mayor Charles Martel and a descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippin ...

, 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 Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norma ...

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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 ** Bibliothèque Municipale ***MS 14; Gospel Book, 10th and 11th century *

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** Bibliothèque Municipale ***MS 10;

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

, 10th century ***MS 11;

Boulogne Gospels Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Hauts-de-France, Northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Department ...

, 10th century ***MS 82;

Amalarius Amalarius (''c''. 775–''c''. 850) was a Frankish prelate and courtier, temporary bishop of Trier (812–13) and Lyon (835–38), and an accomplished liturgist. He was close to Charlemagne and a partisan of his successor, Louis the Pious, througho ...

, '' De ecclesiasticis officiis'', 10th century ***MS 189; Prudentius, Carmina and Miscellanea, 11th century * Cambridge ** Corpus Christi College ***MS 23; Prudentius, Psychomachia and other poems, 10th century ***MS 41; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, 11th century ***MS 57;

Miscellany A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors. Meaning a mixture, medley, or assortment, a miscellany can include pieces on many subjects and in a variety of different forms. In contrast to anthologies, whose aim ...

, (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 A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters we ...

, 10th century ***MS 421 (pp. 1, 2); Anglo-Saxon Homilies, 11th century ***MS 422 (pp. 27–586); Red Book of Darley ** Pembroke College ***MS 301; Gospel Book, 11th century ***MS 302; Gospel Book, or

Hereford Gospels The Hereford Gospels (Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Library, MS P. I. 2) is an 8th-century illuminated manuscript gospel book in insular script (minuscule), with large illuminated initials in the Insular style. This is a very late Anglo-Saxon go ...

, c. 1060 **

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***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);

(Prosper, Cato, etc.), 10th century ***MS O. 3. 7 (1179); Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century **

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***MS Ff. I. 23;

, 11th century * Copenhagen ** Royal Library ***G.K.S. 10, 2°; Copenhagen Gospels, 11th century *

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, Belgium ** Musée van Maerlant ***s.n.; Gospel Lectionary fragment, s.n., 11th century * Durham ** Cathedral Library ***MS A IV 19; Collectar (Durham Ritual), 10th century ***MS B III 32; Hymnal and Aelfric, Grammar, 11th century * Florence ** Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana ***MS Plut. XVII. 20; Gospel Lectionary, 11th century * Hanover ** Kestner-Museum ***WM XXIa 36; Eadui Codex, 11th century * Leiden ** Rijksuniversiteit ***Cod. Scaligeranus 69; Aethici Istrici Cosmographia, 10th century * London ** British Library ***Add MS 24199, part 1;

(Prudentius, Psychomachia), 10th century ***Add MS 34890;

Grimbald Gospels This is a listing of illuminated manuscripts produced between 900 and 1066 in Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon monastery, monasteries, or by Anglo-Saxon scribes or Limner, illuminators working in continental scriptoria. This list includes manuscripts in L ...

***Add MS 37517; ***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 The Benedictional of St. Æthelwold (London, British Library, Add MS 49598) is a 10th-century illuminated benedictional, the most important surviving work of the Anglo-Saxon Winchester School of illumination. It contains the various pontific ...

, 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); Heliand, 10th century ***Cotton Caligula MS A XIV (ff. 1–92); Hereford Troper, 11th century ***Cotton Caligula MS A XV;

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Cotton Claudius This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS B IV; Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, early 11th century ***

Cotton Cleopatra This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS A VI (ff. 2–53);

(Grammatical treatises, etc.), 10th century ***

MS C VIII; Prudentius, Psychomachia, 10th century ***

Cotton Galba This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS A XVIII; Aethelstan Psalter, 10th century (see also: Oxford, Bodleian Library; MS Rawl. B 484) ***

Cotton Julius This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

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;

, 11th century ***Cotton Tiberius MS B I;

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(King Alfred's translation), 11th century ***Cotton Tiberius MS B V (Vol. 1);

, 11th century ***Cotton Tiberius MS C VI;

, 11th century ***

Cotton Titus This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS D XXVI and D. XXVII;

, 11th century ***

Cotton Vespasian This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS A. VIII (ff. 2v–33v);

New Minster Charter The New Minster Charter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript that was likely composed by Bishop Æthelwold and presented to the New Minster in Winchester by King Edgar in the year 966 AD to commemorate the Benedictine Reform. It is now part ...

, 10th century ***

Cotton Vitellius This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

MS A XV; Nowell Codex (

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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;

(Prosper, Isidore, etc.), 10th century ***Harley MS 603;

, 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 (British Library, Harley 2904), Psalter], 10th Century ***Harley MS 5431 (ff. 6–126); Miscellany (British Library, Harley 5431), 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, 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;

(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;

, 11th century ***Stowe MS 944;

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(Liber Vitae), 11th century ** College of Arms ***Arundel MS 22 (ff. 84–85v); Gospel Lectionary fragment, 10th century ** Lambeth Palace Library ***MS 200 (Part II); Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century ***MS 204; Gregory the Great, Dialogues; Ephram, 11th century * Monte Cassino ** Archivo della Badia ***MS BB. 437, 439; Gospel Book, 11th century * Munich **

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***CLM. 29031b; Prudentius, Psychomachia, 10th century *

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***M. 33; Gospel Book, 11th century ***MS 708; Gospel Book, 11th Century ***MS 709; Gospel Book, 11th Century ***MS 827; Anhalt-Morgan Gospels, 11th century ***MS 869; Arenburg Gospels, 10th century * Orléans ** Bibliothèque Municipale ***MS 105; Winchcombe Sacramentary, 10th century ***MS 175; St. Gregory, Homilies on Eziekiel, 10th century * Oxford **

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***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);

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, 11th century ***MS Bodley 577 (S.C. 27645); Aldhelm, De virginitate, 11th century ***MS Bodley 579 (S.C. 2675);

Leofric Missal __NOTOC__ The Leofric Missal is an illuminated manuscript, not strictly a conventional missal, from the 10th and 11th century, now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University where it is catalogued aMS Bodl. 579 Origins and history The origins ...

, 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,

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, 11th century ***MS Douce 296 (S.C. 21870);

, 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);

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***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;

(Prudentius, Peristephanon, etc.), 10th century ** St. John's College ***MS 28; Miscellany and Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, 10th century ***MS 194 (f. 1v); Gospel Book, 10th-century drawing in 9th-century manuscript * Paris ** Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève ***MS 2410;

(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;

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, 10th century ***MS lat. 6401; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century ***MS lat. 7585; Isidor, Ethymologia, 10th century ***MS lat. 8824;

, 11th century
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***MS lat. 17814; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century * Rheims ** Bibliothèque Municipale ***MS 9; Gospel Book, 11th century *

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** Bibliothèque Municipale ***MS A. 27 (368); Lanalet Pontifical, 11th century ***MS Y. 6 (274); , 11th century ***MS Y. 7 (369); , 10th century * Salisbury ** Cathedral Library ***MS 38; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century ***MS 150;

, 10th century * Vatican **

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***MS Reg. lat. 12; Bury Psalter ***MS Reg. lat. 1671; Virgil, Works, 10th century * Vercelli ** Cathedral ***Codex CVII; Homilies and poems in Anglo-Saxon, 10th century * Warsaw **

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***MS I. 3311; Evangeliary and Lectionary, 11th century * York ** York Minster, Chapter Library ***MS Add. 1;

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, 11th century

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