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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
Guido de Pisis
[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...
The Seven Works of Mercy (fol. 81r)
[ca. 1450s]
A short prose treatise in Middle English. The text begins halfway down fol.81r of the manuscript.
The Seven Works of Mercy (fol. 81v)
[ca. 1450s]
A short prose treatise in Middle English. The text begins halfway down fol.81r of the manuscript.
Gregory the Great (image 27)
[ca. 1461-1483]
The roundel on the left shows Gregory the Great, enthroned, wearing a papal triple tiara, and talking to a cardinal, dressed in red robes (47). The roundel on the right probably had William I enthrone...
Psalm 24 (fol. 91r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Example of a text page with a decorated initial in blue on a gold ground, and infilled with a flower vine, and smaller initials in gold on blue and red grounds. Line-fillers are in the style of the in...
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...
Floral border (fol. 218v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
3-line initial 'D' in gold, decorated with blue penwork. 1/4 bar-frame border in gold and red/blue. The rest of the border is decorated with hairline tendrils supporting barbed quatrefoils, trefoils, ...
Hugh of Mazijnghem (fol. 153v)
[1450-1475]
A suppliant, named (over an erasure) as Hugh of Mazijnghem (the second owner of the manuscript), is depicted kneeling in prayer in front of a small altar covered with a green cloth, on which a book li...
[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...
[The Anonimalle Chronicle]
[ca. 1350-1400]
Decoration: 17-line initial in red and blue (f. 36r). 2-line initials, rubrics and paragraph marks in red, capitals touched in red, and marginal notes framed in red ink, throughout. Written in basta...
Hebrew synagogue Megillah scroll
ca. 1201-1300
Held in an open-ended cardboard tube 430 mm long and covered with black cloth on which there is some blindtooling and a label on which is typed, 'Bible/ Book of Esther/ Hebrew synagogue roll/ MS. 400'...
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...