The illuminated manuscripts listed on this page are currently on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
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• Volume on Jain cosmology. 1644 Or 13454 ff. 16v - 17
• Large painting, Jain universe - cosmology. The world of mortals. 18th/ 19th century Or 13454
• Kalpasutra, lives of the Jinas. 17th/ 18th century Or 13701ff. 20v - 21
• Lives of the Jinas. 1488 Or 11921
• Lives of the Jinas. Enlightenment. 1437 I.O. San 3177
• Kalpasutra, lives of the Jinas. 1445 Or 13700 ff. 1, 19, 30 & 40
• Kalpasutra, lives of the Jinas. 1639 Or 13959 ff. 3, 41, 48, 65, 71 & 85
• Images of Jina. 1733 Or 13623 ff. 74v - 75
• Jinas - worship Add 26519 f. 106
• Worship - godesses. Homage to Sarasvati. 1640 Or 13457 ff. 27v - 28
• Palm leaf manuscript from Western India. 1201 Or 1385
• Salibhadra's story illustrating the virtue of almsgiving. 1726 Or 13524 ff. 10v - 11
• An episode from the love story of Dhala and Maru. Composed 1560 Or 14687 ff. 68v - 69
• The Dering Roll, oldest surviving English Roll of Arms, late 13th C Add. MS 77720
WESTERN
• Sherborne Missal, 14th century Add. MS 74236
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS: WESTERN
• The Arnstein Bible. Germany, 1172 Harley MS 2799 ff. 173v - 174
• Hrabanus Maurus, De laudibus sanctae crucis. Germany, c. 1170-1180 Harley MS 3045 ff. 6v - 7
• Bestiary. England (possibly Salisbury). C. 1230-1240 Harley 4751 ff. 7v - 8
• Christine de Pizan, Collected Works. France (Paris) early 15th century Harley MS 4431 ff. 128v - 129
• Splendor Solis. Alchemical manuscript. Germany, c. 1582 Harley 3469 ff. 33v - 34
• Dering Roll Add Roll 77720
• English Pattern Book Sloane 1448A ff. 18v - 19
• Macclesfield Alphabet Book. England 1500 Add. MS 88887 ff. 4v - 5
• Book of Hours, Ghent style, 1470s Loan 126 ff. 148v - 149
• Hours of Joanna of Castile. Bruges, 1496 - 1506 Add. MS 18852 ff. 287v-288
• Huth Hours. Valenciennes, c.1480 Add. MS 38126 ff. 102v - 103
• Hastings Hours. Ghent, late 1470s Add. MS 54782 ff. 59v - 60
ORIENTAL
• Daoism - Mr Liu & his wife ascend to the clouds Add 22689
• The Tale of the Pine and the Bamboo, 1640 - 1680 Or 13385
TURKISH AND PERSIAN
• Three epic poems, Timurid, Shiraz. 1397-8AD Or 2780 ff. 89v - 90
• Khamsa (Five poems) of Nizami. Timurid. 1494-5AD Or 6810 ff. 27v - 28
• Anthology. Timurid or Turkman. Iran. 1470 - 80 Or 13193 ff. 141v - 142
• Khamsa of Nizami - Majnun with the animals in the desert Or 2265 f. 166
• Anvar-i-Suhayli 1610-11AD Add. MS 18579 ff. 338v - 339
• Physiognomy of the Ottoman Sultans' Add. MS 7880 ff. 42v - 43
INDIAN
• Pem Nem - romance composed in Urdu. 17th Century Add. MS 16880 f. 138
• Phulban, Dakhini romance. 17th century IO islamic 14
• Painting, Golconda, c. 1610-20 Johnson Collection J.67,3
• Painting, Deccan area of South India, c. 1660 Johnson Collection J. 19,2