The illuminated manuscripts listed on this page are currently on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check out opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.
• The Four Gospels. Ethiopian, 1650-1670 Or. 508
• Moutier-Grandval Bible, 9th century Add. MS 10546 (352v - 353)
• The Percy Psalter, late 13th century Add. MS 70000 (ff. 64v - 65)
• Rutland Psalter Add. MS 62925 (ff. 83v - 84)
• Shaftesbury Psalter Lansdowne MS 383 (ff. 165v - 166)
• The Paris Hours of John, Duke of Bedford Add. MS 18850 (ff. 70v - 71) (pictured above) more...
• Hours for the use of Rome Add. MS 32454 (ff. 37v - 38)
• The Hours of Jean, Comte de Dunois Yates Thompson 3 (ff. 32v - 33)
• The Wardington Hours Add. MS 82945 (ff. 9v - 10)
• Medical miniatures Sloane 1975 (ff. 91v - 92)
• Almanac Harley 937 (cover)
• Calendar Sloane 2250 (ff. 13v)
• Almanac Sloane 807
• Zodiac man and volvelle Egerton 2572 (ff. 50v - 51)
• Cicero's Aratea, 9th century Harley 647 (ff. 5v - 6)
• Cicero's Aratea, 10th century Harley 2506 (ff. 40v - 41)
• Bestiary Royal 12. C. XIX
ORIENTAL
• Album of Chinese Court dress Or. 9430
• The Tale of the Pine and the Bamboo, 1640 - 1680 Or.
13385
TURKISH AND PERSIAN
• Book of Triumphs, a history of Timur I Lang. AD Iran 1533 I.O. Islamic 137 (ff. 357v - 358)
• The Khamsa, or Five Poems of Nizami, Iran. AD 1539-1543 Or. 2265 folio 157v more...
• The Khamza of Nizami, copied in AD 1442. Western Afghanistan Add. MS 25900 (ff. 250v - 251)
• Miscellaneous texts copied for Iskandur, grandson of Timur. 1410 - 11 Add. MS 27261 (ff. 343v - 344)
• Fables of Bidpay, Turkish, AD 1589 Add. MS 15153 (ff. 363v - 364)
• Memoirs of Emperor Babur, Persian, c. AD 1590 Or. 3714 (ff. 196v - 197) more...
• The Khamsa of Nizami, copied to Emperor Akbar, dated AD 1595 Or. 12208 (ff. 297v - 298)
• History of the Ottoman conquest of Georgia in 1578. Turkish, 1582 Add. MS 22011 (ff. 81v - 82)
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