These miniature paintings, from manuscripts in the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, are among the 10,000 images available on the Digital Scriptorium, the library's vast database of digital reproductions of medieval manuscripts. These paintings were considered high art forms and are primary source materials containing rich details about life and culture during the 8th to the 15th centuries.
The background image is a leaf from a manuscript of the Old French prose romance Lancelot du Lac (ca. 1300), with a miniature showing King Arthur riding toward the kneeling Lancelot and, below, Queen Guinevere and her attendants. The smaller image is a miniature of Judas Iscariot betraying Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, from the Heller Book of Hours (ca. 1450).
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