Pirro Ligorio’s Life of Hippolytus
This manuscript contains sixteen autograph drawings by the painter, architect, and antiquarian Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583).
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Digital Facsimiles
Da Costa Hours
Browse every page of the Da Costa Hours, illuminated by Flemish painter Simon Bening, ca. 1515.
Contes de ma mère l'Oye
This is the original manuscript of the Tales of Mother Goose, attributed to Charles Perrault (1628–1702).
The Berthold Sacramentary
Browse the entire Berthold Sacramentary, commissioned by Berthold of Weingarten, who was abbot from 1200 to 1232.
Il Fior di Battaglia: A Renaissance Fighting Manual
This manuscript, along with two others, comprise the earliest illuminated copies of Fiore dei Liberi’s treatise on fencing and martial arts entitled Fior di battaglia (The Flower of Battle).
Hours of Pierre de Bosredont
Browse all pages in a digital facsimile of this highly personal fifteenth-century Book of Hours.
Hubert Robert's Roman Sketchbook
Explore one of only two surviving intact sketchbooks by the most famous French landscape painter of the eighteenth century, Hubert Robert (1733–1808), who spent eleven years in Rome.
Lindau Gospels
Browse the entire manuscript of the Lindau Gospels, one of the great masterpieces from the Morgan's collection.
Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards
The tarot cards at the Morgan were probably created by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza family, and constitute one of the most complete decks to survive from the fifteenth century.
The Rose Haggadah
Browse The Rose Haggadah, illuminated by contemporary artist Barbara Wolff, using the techniques of medieval manuscript illumination.
The Crusader Bible
View images with descriptions from the Morgan's Picture Bible illustrated in thirteenth-century France.
The Prayer Book of Claude de France
The Prayer Book of Claude de France is a tiny, jewel-like manuscript that was made for Claude (1499–1524) around 1517, the year she was crowned queen of France.