1)Description of Manuscripts

Illuminated Manuscript Facsimiles in the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries:

True manuscript facsimiles attempt to recreate the effect of the original manuscript, in pagination, size and color. Some of the fascimiles listed here are not "true" in this regard but have been included because they reproduce a manuscript's entire program of illuminated miniatures.

2) Description of Citations and Types

How manuscript descriptions are arranged on this site:

Manuscript Location and Number
(Manuscript Name)
Style/Origin and Date of the Manuscript
Book Title
Book Commentary
Book Publication Information
Book Call Number
(Manuscript's Zotter Number)  [Refers to citation number in Zotter, Hans, Bibliographie faksimilierten Handschriften (1976); in Davis Reference Stacks (non-circulating): #Z6601.Z68 or the computer version available in the Art Library, 5-2]

Example :

Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS. 58
(Book of Kells)
Hiberno-Saxon, 8^th Century
The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color
Commentary: Blanche Cirker
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982
ART: ND3359 .K4 B67 1982
(Zotter 141)

The second list also includes books dedicated to thematic aspects of manuscript illumination (ex. "Manuscripts produced at the Abbaye de Corbie"), single library collections (ex. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale) and survey-type books concerning one or more style of manuscript illumination (ex. VARIOUS - FRENCH). 

Manuscripts are sorted alphabetically by type.  The style/origin of the manuscript may refer to two or more categories:

Records may refer to trans-regional styles or distinctions such as:

Byzantine   (Greek and Latin East, c. mid-4^th to mid-15^th Centuries)

Insular  (British Isles, c. 7^th to mid-11^th Centuries

Hiberno-Saxon / Celtic  (British Isles, c. 7^th to mid-8^th Centuries)

Anglo-Saxon   (British Isles, c. mid-8^th to mid-11^th Centuries)

Carolingian   (Western European, c. 8^th to mid-10^th Centuries)

Ottonian   (Western European, c. mid-10^th to mid-11^th Centuries

Romanesque  (Western European, c. mid-11^th to 12^th Centuries)

Gothic  (Western European, c. mid-12^th to 15^th Centuries)

Hebrew

Austrian

Bohemian (Czech)

Dutch

English

Flemish

Franco-Flemish

French

German

Hungarian

Icelandic

Italian

Irish

Netherlandish

Russian

Spanish

Swiss