This week i decided to take a look at some off ther illuminated manuscrips and other famous manuscripts in the Vatican Library as they are exceptionaly beautiful.
Notable manuscripts in the Library include:
Illuminated manuscripts:
- Vergilius Vaticanus
Vergilius Vaticanus is the best preserved example of a book illustrated in the Greco-Roman tradition and constitutes one of the oldest sources of Virgil’s great epic poem Aeneid. Made in Rome around 400 A.D., it also is the oldest of only three existing classical manuscripts containing illustrated classical literature.
- Vergilius Romanus
Is possibly a 15 centuary contempary book from Britain,It is written in an elegant hand, comprising 309 folios of 333x332 mm in size, and contains 19 color illumination in a Late Antique style
- Barberini Gospels
The `Barberini Gospels` is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript Gospel Book (Rome, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barberini Lat. 570, also known as the `Wigbald Gospels`), assumed to be of a late eighth century origin.
- Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the Imperial workshops in Constantinople.
- De arte venandi cum avibus (the Art of hunting with birds)
An early monograph great value to zoologists-especially the ornithologist, interestingly this has been translated and is now available in book form.
- Vatican Croatian Prayer Book
Created in 1400
Vatican Croatian Prayer Book
Refrences:
< http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=storia>
Vortigern Studies, Vergilious, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
<http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artlit/vergilius.htm>
Encyclopedia, Barberini Gospels, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
<http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Barberini%20Gospels>
Blogspot, Barbarini Gospels, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
Blogspot, Barbarini Gospels, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
<http://medievalist3.blogspot.com/2009/09/from-barberini-gospels.html>
Wikipedia, Joshua Roll, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Roll>
Wikipedia, Joshua Roll, Veiwed 18 October 2011,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Roll>
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