Living with Nature

An early codex with an impressive illustration showing the enthroned church father Augustine

The most important encyclopedic treatise of the Middle Ages

The last surviving medieval Physiologus manuscript remaining in private hands

A new addition to the corpus of Southern German illuminated manuscripts

From the lifetime of St Francis: A beautiful witness of Flemish manuscript production spurred by the new zeal of the Franciscan order settling in Bruges

A kaleidoscope of daily life in 15th century Padua

Fragment from the earliest manuscript witness to the Latin Dioscorides

An illustrated manual for alchemical recipes

A unique herbal with almost 400 drawings of plants

An exquisite Book of Hours with erotic decoration

A beautifully decorated Psalter from the Southern Netherlands

A rediscovered Book of Hours by the Master of Jean Rolin

A richly illuminated manuscript revised by the Spanish Inquisition

An outstanding achievement of Flemish illumination