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King David (fol. 111r)
[ca. 1480-1500]
The miniature shows King David playing a psaltery in a rocky landscape, with a city visible behind. The full border is decorated with flowers, a large vase, and a cherub playing a lute. The incipit wo...
The Holy Shroud (fol. 111r)
[ca. 1490]
The small miniature depicts a figure holding the Holy Shroud, which shows the head of Christ, crowned with thorns.
The Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 111v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The border is historiated with the scene of the Massacre of the Innocents. In the foreground a soldier, clad in armour, pulls a baby from the mother and raises his sword. Behind them another soldier, ...
Calendar: June (fol. 6r)
[ca. 142-?]
The double-compartment miniature has a man making hay, and the zodiacal sign of Cancer (the crab). The historiated border has St Barnabas the Apostle holding a book and an axe; and two unidentified bi...
Birds and flowers (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The gold-wash border is decorated with pinks, borage, strawberries, buttercups, forgetmenot, lungwort (?), periwinkle, beetles, birds, ladybirds and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial 'H' formed of ...
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...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[ca. 1480-1500]
Decoration: 4 full-page arched miniatures within borders decorated with flowers, curled leaves, berries and putti. There are fine 3 to 4-line illuminated initials, on gold grounds and infilled with fl...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[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 ...
[Preces]
[ca. 1500-1520]
ff. iii, 214-218 are contemporary ruled vellum flyleaves. Decoration: 8 full-page borders in designs of flowers, birds and insects on decorated gold ground. 11-line (or smaller), initials throughout...
[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 ...
[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 ...