Welcome to the Index of Medieval Art

Welcome to the Index of Medieval Art online database. Our online holdings complement and partly overlap with the print Index at Princeton University, which is currently being integrated into the database. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Muslim cultures. In cataloging and describing this material, we remain committed to pursuing the respectful and accurate representation of medieval visual traditions in all of their diversity. Should you have questions or feedback concerning Index records, please feel free to contact our staff using this form.

Featured Works of Art

Manuscript page with text and a half-page framed illustration of a fox walking among plants.

Fox, Morgan Manafi'-i hayavan, New York, Morgan Library M.500

System Number:127337

A painted manuscript page that contains the letter “M,” which has vegetal ornamentation within its borders. The letter is surrounded by gold words in Latin and is situated within a frame that contains geometric ornamentation.

Initial M, Pericope of Henry II, Clm. 4452, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, fol. 118r.

System Number:75435

A manuscript detail depicting in the margins a couple seated on a grassy bank and playing a game of cards. Another couple seated on a turf bench before a flowering trellis; the woman playing instruments and the man pouring wine. A picnic on the ground nearby. Latin words in red and black ink.

Labors of the Month, May, Book of Hours, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.1175, fol. 8r, ...

System Number:202285

A page from a manuscript with calendrical dates on the left side and a couple, the man holding a falcon, riding a horse together beneath a tree.

Labors of the Months, May, Psalter, Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W.61, fol. 3r, detail.

System Number:87761

Drawing of bust of female figure within rectangular frame surrounded by a hexagonal frame.

Inlay plaque of female figure, watercolor, Catacombs of Saint Agnes, Rome.

System Number:mar20250513001

Carved in relief on an ivory cylinder, men and animals fighting each other, with inscribed metal bands at the top and bottom.

Combat, ivory pyxis, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. no. MA 165.

System Number:hds20250515001

Figures carved in relief on an ivory comb.

Judgment of Solomon, ivory comb, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. no. MA 2027, obverse.

System Number:hds20250515002

A rectangular book cover with a central squarish plaque depicting a man in an almond-shaped frame flanked by two men. Four other small plaques with figures inset to the cover, one missing, two embedded coins, and all over cruciform motif and Latin inscriptions. Border of leaves and knotwork and some surface wear and loss.

Christ, Giving Law and Peter the Apostle, Receiving Keys, ivory, horn, and metal book cover, Gospe...

System Number:jls20250429001

A fragmentary sculptural panel that contains multiple figures wearing togas.

Christ, unidentified scene, sarcophagus fragment, Repertorium, I 0722, Rome, San Paolo fuori le mu...

System Number:96776

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