WAM 738 4to or Edda oblongata is an Icelandic paper manuscript dated to ca. 1680. It is housed in the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík. It consists of 135 leaves and contains an illustrated copy of the Prose Edda, with 23 drawings of subjects from Norse mythology. The manuscript's name derives from its distinct oblong format; the book is unusually tall compared to its width.
WThe Belgrade Armorial II is the name given to an armorial compiled between 1600 and 1620, as a copy of Petar Ohmućević's armorial which is dated to c. 1590. It was bought by Russian historian Alexander Soloviev in 1936, and is today held at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. It is among the oldest, and finest of the Illyrian Armorials. Its origin remain unknown.
WThe Cancioneiro Musical de Belém or simply Cancioneiro de Belém is a Portuguese Renaissance manuscript from the beginning of the 17th century.
WDidactic gospels is a collection of sermons. Their prototype is considered the didactic of Bishop Constantine of Preslav in 894 written in the Church Slavonic language.
WThe Guirlande de Julie is a unique French manuscript of sixty-one madrigaux, illustrated with painted flowers, and composed by several poets habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet for Julie d'Angennes and given to her on her name day in May 1641. The 1641 manuscript was bought by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1989 and is now kept in the Département des Manuscrits of the BnF.
WThe Missal of the Academy of Sciences is a notable Portuguese 17th-century Roman Pontifical codex, profusely illuminated by Estêvão Gonçalves Neto.
WThe Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, compiled by Thomas Trevelyon in London, England in 1608, is an illustrated manuscript miscellany containing handwritten notes and drawings on historical, religious, social and practical themes, adapted from a variety of sources, including the Bible and ancient and contemporary English writers. According to Dr. Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist at the Folger Shakespeare Library, "the primary purposes of the Trevelyon miscellany ... are didactic and mnemonic. The extracts and examples from secular, allegorical, and Protestant texts are an enduring monument for improving one's moral conduct in this life and preparing for the next."