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MS 124
MS 124
[ca. 1480-1520]
Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower m...
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BC MS 13
BC MS 13
[ca. 1480-1500]
Vertical catch words.
Decoration: 3-line initial in gold on a blue and green ground and a penwork border in purple with flowers and a bird (f. 1r). 2-line initials in blue and red throughout for beg...
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BC MS 14
BC MS 14
[ca. 1450-1500]
Decoration: 5 (2 to 6-line) initials in blue or pink patterned in white, infilled with flowers, and on gold grounds, within full framed floral borders including designs of hens, berries, a bird and a ...
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BC MS 15
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...
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BC MS 18
BC MS 18
[ca. 1404-1425]
Decoration: 16 large (5-8-line) initials in blue and pink with white tracery, infilled with flowers, on gold grounds, and within full borders, of gold and vine bars decorated with acanthus leaves and ...
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BC MS 2
BC MS 2
[ca. 1440-1460]
Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....
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MS 2
MS 2
[1440-1460]
The outer columns of text on ff. 6-10 are lacking.
Columns are numbered with modern pencil throughout, 1-975.
Decoration: 6-line incipit initial 'A' in red and green, decorated with red pen-orname...
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BC MS 31/2
BC MS 31/2
[14--? ]
Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...
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BC MS 20
BC MS 20
[1400-1450]
Slips with additions have been inserted within the main text block.
The volume is richly glossed throughout.
Decoration: incipit initial 'A' in blue and red, with red pen-ornament. 2-line initials...
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BC MS 24
BC MS 24
[ca. 1450-1500]
Decoration: initials in gold on halved blue and red grounds patterned with white penwork. The initials extend into bar borders, usually along one side only, with further decoration in the margings in ...
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BC MS 3
BC MS 3
[ca. 1440-1460]
Decoration: 22 full-page miniatures within arched compartments surrounded by full floral borders, and 22 historiated initials. The illuminations are probably by a French artist.
Written in textualis...
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BC MS 31/3
BC MS 31/3
[14--? ]
Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...