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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
14th century
Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...
[Biblia]
[ca. 1260]
Decoration: biblical books and divisions of Psalms have historiated 9-line initials in colours, on gold grounds, and with ornamental bars extending to the margins that are often decorated by birds and...
Le manuel des pecchez
William of Waddington
[ca. 1300-1350]
Includes catchwords at the end of quires. Decoration: 8-line incipit initial 'L' in blue and red, infilled with a leaf decoration in red; 2-line initials in blue, with red ornament, throughout; 1-li...
Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine
de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
c.1312
Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Clifton family
[late 14th century, possibly before 1389]
The original total of leaves is likely to have been 118, with the majority of the missing leaves likely to have contained illuminations and been cut out in post-medieval times. Decoration: Three 8 t...
[Anselm, etc.]
Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); John Chrysostom, Saint (407); Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
[ca. 1200-1250]
There is a late 13th-century list of contents on f. 1v. Decoration: 4 to 5-line initials for each text in blue and red, with pen ornament in both colours. 2-line initials for chapters, alternating i...
De officiis
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
[12th century]
Ff. 39-41 were written by a later, possibly 14th-century, hand. Annotations throughout the manuscript are written in three different hands. Decoration: a 2-line initial in red begins the first book ...
[In epistolas canonicas]
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
[ca. 1100-1150]
Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...