Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts 13th-18th Centuries

This exhibition explores the golden age of handmade books. Medieval European examples include a range of Christian devotional and liturgical texts—from psalters and books of hours to choir books and lectionaries. Among the non-Western examples are seventeenth-and eighteenth-century leaves from the Koran and the Shahnameh (the Persian Illustrated Book of Kings) as well as Hebrew texts. The exhibition brings together a selection of manuscript leaves from medieval Europe as well as later examples of Hebrew, Arabic and Persian texts.