Manuscripts
Features
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The Teutonic Knights Bible
Discover the fascinating story behind one of the largest groups of manuscript cuttings in the V&A collection
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The botanical album of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
Explore the 16th century album of exquisite watercolours in high definition
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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
The V&A holds five notebooks owned by Leonardo da Vinci – a unique insight into one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance
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Turning the pages of an illuminated manuscript
Watch as we open up a medieval choirbook
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'Entartete Kunst': The Nazis' inventory of 'degenerate art'
Discover the story behind this unique document
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Explore 'Entartete Kunst': The Nazis' inventory of 'degenerate art'
A unique document providing crucial information about the provenance, exhibition history and fate of each artwork confiscated by the Nazi regime
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Piccolpasso's treatise on maiolica
The V&A not only holds the greatest collection of maiolica in the world, but also this unique treatise describing its manufacture.
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Illuminated manuscripts
Discover the V&A's vast collection of illuminated manuscripts and cuttings
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Provenance and restitution: the Emma Budge CollectionAn important resource for provenance researchers documenting works of art forcibly sold by the Nazis
Collection highlights
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Li tre libri dell’arte del vasaio by Cipriano Piccolpasso, about 1557, Castel Durante (present day Urbania), Italy. Museum no. MSL/1861/7446, ff. 38v – 39r.V&A South Kensington -
Book of Hours of Margaret de Foix, 1471 – 76, Western France. Museum no. MSL/1910/2385, ff. 83v – 84r.V&A South Kensington -
Iluminated address by the Tenants of the Courtroom estates for Lord Viscount Stopford, 1875 – 78, Ireland. Museum no. MSL/1984/69/1. -
Initial ‘M’ showing St Giustina and Maximian, by Girolamo da Cremona, from an antiphonary, before 1462, Padua, ItalyV&A South Kensington -
Entartete Kunst: A typescript inventory for The Reichsministerium für Volksaufklarüng und Propaganda, 1942, Germany. Museum no. MSL/1996/7/1, p. 179. -
Homilies on the Archangel Michael, 18th or early 19th century, Ethiopia. Museum no. MSL/1903/2081, f. 58v.V&A South Kensington -
Chambord Missal, 1844, Paris, France. Museum no. MSL/1984/68, f. 49r.V&A South Kensington -
Al-Wajiz, or an abridged commentary on the Koran, 1478, Egypt. Museum no. MSL/1869/7219, f. 2a.V&A South Kensington -
A Book of Verse by William Morris, 1870, London, Britain. Museum no. MSL/1953/131, p 51. -
Letters from Edward Johnston to Giorgiana, Helen, Elizabeth and Mary MacRae, 1897 – 1906, Britain. Museum no. MSL/1959/4394. -
Notebook (Codex Forster II) by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495 – 97, Milan, Italy. Museum no. MSL/1876/Forster/141/II, f. 91r.V&A South Kensington -
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens, about 1870, Britain. Museum no. MSL/1866/Forster/167/1, f. 5 recto.
