Highlights

"and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

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.

Church and Society

       
 
Holy helpers Labours of the month Signs of the Zodiac
Holy helpers   Labours of the month   Signs of the Zodiac
   

Christian feasts and holidays

     
Christmas   Good Friday   Easter   Ascension & Pentecost
Christmas   Good Friday   Easter   Ascension & Pentecost
     

Miscellaneous

     
Fabulous animals   Unnatural causes   Devils and demons   Virtues and vices
Fabulous animals   Unnatural causes ...   Devils and demons   Virtues and vices
     

The Book of Books

       
In the beginning ...   Job, icon of Patience   The Bible in education    
In the beginning   Patience and Strength: Job and Samson   The Bible in education:
Susanna, Tobias, Esther, Judith