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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[ca. 142-?]
Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...
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...
[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
[ca. 1461-1483]
Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...
Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
Paulus a Mercatello; Guilielmus Brito; Moneliensis, Franciscus; Paul of Burgos (1351-1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Nicholas, of Lyra commentator (1270-1349); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Herbort, Johann (1484); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
[1453-1454]
Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf. Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical dra...
[Sermons, etc.]
John Sintram; Bonaventura Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
[1412 (-1425?)]
There are 2-line initials in red or the ink of the text. The pastedowns are from a 12th-century sanctoral of a missal, with the vigil and day of Saint Lawrence on the rear board, and (inverted) Sain...
Materials for Franciscan use
[ca. 1440-1460]
15th-century table of contents inside the front cover. Written in German cursive book script. Principal contents: manual for Franciscan friars with various texts, including ff. 1r-111r Topics prov...
[Sermons, etc.]
Henricus de Frimaria
[1444-1481 ?]
Bound in a composite volume with three printed works. Red highlighting on ff. 37r-40r, 49r, and 95r-107r. Written in German cursive, by nine different scribes. Bound with three 15th-century publ...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Braddyll family
[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...
[Beverley prayer book]
[ca. 1425]
Front flyleaves: [i-ii] modern vellum, i-iv paper, [vii-viii] modern vellum. Rear flyleaves are modern vellum. Catchwords for each quire are in scroll cartouches. Decoration: 3 full-page coats of ar...
[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...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[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 ...
[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
[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....