Exhibition Closing: Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts 13th-18th Centuries, University of St. Joseph, 19 September - 13 December 2025

Exhibition Closing

Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts 13th-18th Centuries

University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT

September 19 – December 13, 2025

This exhibition explores the golden age of handmade books. Medieval European examples include a range of Christian devotional and liturgical texts—from psalters and books of hours to choir books and lectionaries. Among the non-Western examples are seventeenth-and eighteenth-century leaves from the Koran and the Shahnameh (the Persian Illustrated Book of Kings) as well as Hebrew texts. This exhibition is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading Pennsylvania. At the University of Saint Joseph it is supported in part by the Karen L. Chase ’97 Fund.

For more information, visit https://www.usj.edu/about/arts/art-museum/exhibition/current/