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Total number of records: 8

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Brotherton Collection8
Medieval Manuscripts8

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fruits2
saints1
zodiacal signs1
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)1
human occupations representing seasons and months1
books of hours1
animals1
birds1

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Catholic Church1
Braddyll Family1
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/5
[ca. 142-?]
The double-compartment miniature has a man pruning, and the zodiacal sign of Aries (the ram). In the border are depicted three figures, two bishops and a pope, possibly St. Albinus, bishop of Angers a...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/1
[ca. 1470-1480]
Full-page miniature depicting a burial service, defaced in the Reformation period and partially repainted much later. A priest stands at the altar, four clerics stand at the side, and six mourners, cl...
Archive Item:
BC MS 15
[ca. 1470-1480]
f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/2
[ca. 1470-1480]
Full floral border decorated with thistles in a vase, strawberries, poppyheads, acanthus leaves, gold balls with coloured lobes, and large aroid flowers in the bottom corners. The poppyheads and the g...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/3
[ca. 1470-1480]
Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils bearing trumpet flowers, heart motifs, gold pine cones and gold balls with g...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/4
[ca. 1470-1480]
Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, heart motifs, gold pine cones and gold balls with gre...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/5
[ca. 1470-1480]
Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, heart motifs, gold pine cones and gold balls with gre...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 15/6
[ca. 1470-1480]
1/4 bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, curved leaves, and gold balls with green lobes. 5-line rose/blue in...