Illuminated Manuscripts Postcard Pack

This postcard pack contains 16 postcards featuring images and details from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library collection.

Postcards include:

• ‘Generosity in Charity’ from the Vessantara Jataka
• Detail from the ‘Welles Apocalypse’
• A view of London with the Tower of London in the foreground from a copy of the poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans
• Page from a Book of Hours
• ‘Rescue of Prince Janaka’ from the Mahajanaka Jataka
• Image from Petit Livre d'Amour
• Image of Imagination introducing the knight to the three Virtues, from Imaginacion de vraye noblesse
• Image of Astronomers on Mt. Athos, from Sir John Mandeville's Travels
• Image of the fairy Mélusine transformed into a dragon, flies away from Lusignan castle from Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine
• Image of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, from the Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria
• Beginning of the Gospel of St Matthew, from the Harley Golden Gospels
• Illustration from a Thai folding book containing extracts from the Tipitaka
• Image of the Transfiguration and the Last Supper, from The Floreffe Bible
• Noah's Ark, from Old English Illustrated Hexateuch
• City of Babylon, from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book
• Image of the building of the Tower of Babel, from the Bedford Hours