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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)11
books of hours11
breviaries2
sermons, latin2
witchcraft1
theology1
demonology1
criminal procedure (canon law)1
english poetry1

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)7
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton7
Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)3
Koberger, Anton3
Caracciolo, Roberto (1425-1495)2
Creussner, Friedrich2
Creussner, Friedrich (1499-)2
Koelhoff, Johann (1493)1
Laplagne-Barris, Raymond1

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Archive Item

[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...

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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
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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...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[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...

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Book of Prayers
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[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...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[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...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[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 ...

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[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
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[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....

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[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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[Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur]
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[Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur]

Antoine de Crèvecoeur; Hughes de Mazijnghem

[1450-1475]

Decoration: 38 large arched miniatures surrounded by framed borders in designs of intricate curving foliage and ivy leaves in pen and gold, enclosing strawberries and flowers in colour. Decorated init...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 12 large miniatures in arched compartments surrounded by full borders on parti-coloured grounds divided up into areas of liquid gold and unpainted vellum. Decorated borders throughout the ...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1350-1400]

Decoration: 3 (5-line) initials in blue and pink patterned in white on burnished gold grounds with flower infills, extended as a bar at sides and foot, with full borders with corner sprays of acanthus...

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Sermones aurei de Sanctis Fratris Leonardi de vtino sacre Theologie doctoris ordinis predicato[rum]

Leonardus de Utino; Koberger, Anton (1440-1513); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno Incarnat[i]onis d[omi]nice Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo. Undecimo vero k[a]l[endas] februarij. [22 January 1478]

Title from the recto of numbered leaf i. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on the verso of numbered leaf ccx reads: Anno Incarnat[i]onis d[omi]nice Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo. Undec...

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