Manuscript Gallery

Merovingian reader (7th Century).
The oldest book preserved today in
Alsace (Ms 1, parchment)

Otto von Passau, Die mynnende Seele.
Text copied and illustrated in 1430
by the Selestadian shoemaker
Jakob Leistenmacher
(Ms 69, on paper)

This 10th Century manuscript unites three treatises: the Mappae Clavicula by Cetus Farentinus, Artis Architectonicae libri and Vitruvius’ famous De Architectura Libri X.

Bible of the 13th Century. Manuscript
illuminated and copied on vellum. Gift
of Ms. Uni Wissing Blom Andersen.

Liber Precum (Book of prayers), 12th Century,
in caroline minuscule, parchment.

Manuscript of the 15th Century, with the
cover reinforced by a Hebrew parchment of
the 13th Century.

Pages selected from the Book of Saint Faith’s Miracles.

Bible called the Sorbonne or Taurellus’ Bible, 13th Century.

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