This is a listing of illuminated manuscripts produced between 900 and 1066 in Anglo-Saxon monasteries, or by Anglo-Saxon scribes or illuminators working in continental scriptoria. This list includes manuscripts in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. For manuscripts produced before 900 see the List of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts.
The invasions during the reign of King Alfred the Great created a disruption in the manuscript production in England. When manuscript production resumed in the later portion of Alfred's reign, a break with the previous Insular style of manuscript illumination occurred. The new style, although drawing some elements from Insular manuscripts, also was influenced by Carolingian, Byzantine, and Mediterranean traditions. The Norman Conquest produced another break in English manuscript production which ended the Anglo-Saxon tradition of manuscript illumination. For more information see Anglo-Saxon art. Listing This listing includes every surviving manuscript with Anglo-Saxon miniatures, drawings, or other major decoration. It also includes a representative sample of manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon pen-work initials. The manuscripts are sorted by their current location. Besançon Bibliothèque Municipale MS 14; Gospel Book, 10th and 11th century Boulogne Bibliothèque Municipale MS 10; Gospels, 10th century MS 11; Boulogne Gospels, 10th century MS 82; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis, 10th century MS 189; Prudentius, Carmina and Miscellanea, 11th century Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 23; Prudentius, Psychomachia and other poems, 10th century MS 41; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, 11th century MS 57; Miscellany, (Rule of St. Benedict, Martyrology, etc.), 10th century MS 183; Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert and Genealogies, 10th century MS 198; Anglo-Saxon Homilies, 11th century MS 326; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century MS 389; Vita S. Pauli Eremitae and Felix, Vita S. Guthlaci, 10th century MS 411; Psalter, 10th century MS 421 (pp. 1, 2); Anglo-Saxon Homilies, 11th century MS 422 (pp. 27–586); Red Book of Darley Pembroke College MS 301; Gospel Book, 11th century MS 302; Gospel Book, or Hereford Gospels, c. 1060 Trinity College MS B. 10. 4 (215); Trinity Gospels, 11th century MS B. 11. 2 (241); Amalarius, De ecclesiasticus officiis, 10th century MS B. 14. 3 (289); Arator, Historia apostolica, 10th century MS B. 15. 34 (369); Homilies in Anglo-Saxon, 11th century MS B. 16. 3 (379); Rabanus Maurus, De laude crucis, 10th century MS O. 1. 18 (1042); Enchiridion Augustini, 10th century MS O. 2. 31 (1135); Miscellany (Prosper, Cato, etc.), 10th century MS O. 3. 7 (1179); Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century University Library MS Ff. I. 23; Psalter, 11th century Copenhagen Royal Library G.K.S. 10, 2°; Copenhagen Gospels, 11th century Damme, Belgium Musée van Maerlant s.n.; Gospel Lectionary fragment, s.n., 11th century Durham Cathedral Library MS A IV 19; Collectar (Durham Ritual), 10th century MS B III 32; Hymnal and Aelfric, Grammar, 11th century Florence Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana MS Plut. XVII. 20; Gospel Lectionary, 11th century Hanover Kestner-Museum WM XXIa 36; Eadui Codex, 11th century Leiden Rijksuniversiteit Cod. Scaligeranus 69; Aethici Istrici Cosmographia, 10th century London British Library Add MS 24199, part 1; Miscellany (Prudentius, Psychomachia), 10th century Add MS 34890; Grimbald Gospels Add MS 37517; Add MS 40618; Gospel Book, 10th-century additions to 8th-/9th-century manuscript Add MS 47967; Tollemach Orosius, (Anglo-Saxon translation) 10th century Add MS 49598; Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, 10th century Arundel MS 60; Psalter (with Anglo-Saxon interlinear gloss), 11th century Arundel MS 155; Psalter (with interlinear Anglo-Saxon translations), 11th century Cotton Caligula MS A VII (ff. 11–176); Heliand, 10th century Cotton Caligula MS A XIV (ff. 1–92); Hereford Troper, 11th century Cotton Caligula MS A XV; Miscellany Cotton Claudius MS B IV; Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, early 11th century Cotton Cleopatra MS A VI (ff. 2–53); Miscellany (Grammatical treatises, etc.), 10th century Cotton Cleopatra MS C VIII; Prudentius, Psychomachia, 10th century Cotton Galba MS A XVIII; Aethelstan Psalter, 10th century (see also: Oxford, Bodleian Library; MS Rawl. B 484) Cotton Julius MS A VI; Calendar and Hymnal, 11th century MS Cotton Otho B II; Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care; 11th century MS Cotton Tiberius A III; Miscellany, 11th century Cotton Tiberius MS B I; Orosius (King Alfred's translation), 11th century Cotton Tiberius MS B V (Vol. 1); Miscellany, 11th century Cotton Tiberius MS C VI; Psalter, 11th century Cotton Titus MS D XXVI and D. XXVII; Miscellany, 11th century Cotton Vespasian MS A. VIII (ff. 2v–33v); New Minster Charter, 10th century Cotton Vitellius MS A XV; Nowell Codex (Beowulf manuscript), 10th century Cotton Vitellius MS A XIX; Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert Cotton Vitellius MS C III; Herbal, 11th century Harley MS 76 Bury Gospels Harley MS 110; Miscellany (Prosper, Isidore, etc.), 10th century Harley MS 603; Psalter, 11th century Harley MS 1117 (ff. 2–42v, 45–62v); Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert, 10th century Harley MS 2506; Cicero, Aratea], 10th century Harley MS 2904; Psalter], 10th Century Harley MS 5431 (ff. 6–126); Miscellany (Regula S. Benedicti, Statua antiqua, etc.), 10th century Loan MS 11, Kederminster Gospels, 11th century Royal MS 1 D IX; Gospel Book, 11th century Royal MS 1 E VI; Gospel Book, 9–11th century Royal MS 1 E VII (f. 1v); Bible, 11th century Royal MS 5 E XI; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century Royal MS 5 F III; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century Royal MS 6 A VI; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century Royal MS 6 A VII; Life of St. Gregory, 11th century Royal MS 6 B VIII (ff. 1–26); Isidore, De fide catholica, 11th century Royal MS 7 D XXIV; Aldhem, De virginitate and Epistola Aldhelmi, 10th century Royal MS 12 C XXIII; Miscellany (Julian, Aldhelm, etc.), 10th century Royal MS 15 A XVI (f. 84); Miscellany, 9–10th century, 11th century drawing Royal MS 15 B XIX; Sedulius, Poems, 10th century Stowe MS 2; Psalter, 11th century Stowe MS 944; New Minster Register (Liber Vitae), 11th century College of Arms Arundel MS 22 (ff. 84–85v); Gospel Lectionary fragment, 10th century Lambeth Palace Library MS 200 (Part II); Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century MS 204; Gregory the Great, Dialogues; Ephram, 11th century Monte Cassino Archivo della Badia MS BB. 437, 439; Gospel Book, 11th century Munich Staatsbibliothek CLM. 29031b; Prudentius, Psychomachia, 10th century New York Pierpont Morgan Library M. 33; Gospel Book, 11th century MS 708; Gospel Book, 11th Century MS 709; Gospel Book, 11th Century MS 827; Anhalt-Morgan Gospels, 11th century MS 869; Arenburg Gospels, 10th century Orléans Bibliothèque Municipale MS 105; Winchcombe Sacramentary, 10th century MS 175; St. Gregory, Homilies on Eziekiel, 10th century Oxford Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 1. 15 (S.C. 2455); Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century MS Auct. F. 4. 32 (S.C. 2176); St. Dunstan's Classbook, 9th–10th century MS Bodley 49 (S.C. 1946); Aldhem, De virginitate, 10th century MS Bodley 155 (S.C. 1974); Gospel Book, 11th century MS Bodley 340, 342 (S.C. 2404–5); Homiliary, 11th century MS Bodley 577 (S.C. 27645); Aldhelm, De virginitate, 11th century MS Bodley 579 (S.C. 2675); Leofric Missal, 10th-century additions to 9th-century manuscript MS Bodley 708 (S.C. 2609); Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, 11th century MS Bodley 718 (S.C. 2632); Penitential of Egbert, Collectio canonum quadripartita, 11th century MS Douce 296 (S.C. 21870); Psalter, 11th century MS Digby 146; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century MS Hatton 20 (S.C. 4113); Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, King Alfred's West Saxon version, 9th century MS Junius 11 (S.C. 5123); Caedmon manuscript MS Junius 27 (S.C. 5139); Junius Psalter, 10th century MS Lat. lit. F. 5 (S.C. 29744); St. Margaret Gospels, 11th century MS Rawl. B 484, f. 85; Aethelstan Psalter (see also: British Library, MS Cotton Galba A XVIII) MS Rawl. C. 570; Arator, Historia apostolica, 10th century MS Tanner 3; Gregory the Great, Dialogues, 11th century MS Tanner 10 (S.C. 27694); Bede, Historia ecclesiastica in Old English version, 10th century Oriel College MS 3; Miscellany (Prudentius, Peristephanon, etc.), 10th century St. John's College MS 28; Miscellany and Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, 10th century MS 194 (f. 1v); Gospel Book, 10th-century drawing in 9th-century manuscript Paris Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève MS 2410; Miscellany (Iuvencus, Sedulius, etc.), 11th century Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 640 A; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century MS lat. 943; Sherborne Pontifical, 10th century MS lat. 987; Benedictional, 10th century MS lat. 6401; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century MS lat. 7585; Isidor, Ethymologia, 10th century MS lat. 8824; Psalter, 11th century. Link to color scan MS lat. 17814; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 10th century Rheims Bibliothèque Municipale MS 9; Gospel Book, 11th century Rouen Bibliothèque Municipale MS A. 27 (368); Lanalet Pontifical, 11th century MS Y. 6 (274); , 11th century MS Y. 7 (369); , 10th century Salisbury Cathedral Library MS 38; Aldhelm, De virginitate, 10th century MS 150; Psalter, 10th century Vatican Biblioteca Apostolica MS Reg. lat. 12; Bury Psalter MS Reg. lat. 1671; Virgil, Works, 10th century Vercelli Cathedral Codex CVII; Homilies and poems in Anglo-Saxon, 10th century Warsaw Biblioteka Narodowa MS I. 3311; Evangeliary and Lectionary, 11th century York York Minster, Chapter Library MS Add. 1; York Gospels, 11th century
Further reading Temple, Elzbieta. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: 900–1066. London; Harvey Miller, 1976.