Here you'll find selected highlights from the collections of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Let the themes gathered on this page guide your browsing of the collections. Click a picture to go to a thematic gallery. In the galleries you can click a picture to see its enlargement, or you may choose to call forth "more images" of the same or a closely related theme from the database.

Introduction

Church and society

  

Christian feasts and holidays

  

Miscellaneous

  

The Book of Books