Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

There are thousands of images from The Morgan Library & Museum’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts available on this website. You can browse, search, or see highlights.

The images and accompanying descriptions are the product of an extraordinary collaboration between the Morgan and the Index of Medieval Art. The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art.

Image:
Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France; Author Dictating to a Scribe
Moralized Bible
France, probably Paris
ca. 1230
14 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (375 x 262 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906
MS M.240 (fol. 8)