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Brotherton Collection5
Medieval Manuscripts5

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
birds1
books of hours1
christ1
insects1
prayer-books1
saints1
virgin mary1

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Floral border (fol. 114v)
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Floral border (fol. 114v)

[ca. 1404-1425]

Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves. From the border clusters of spray penwork extend gold balls with green squiggles. 8-line introductory ...

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Calendar: July (fol. 7v)
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Calendar: July (fol. 7v)

[ca. 142-?]

The scenes in the historiated border are: an unidentified bishop; St Mary Magdalen holding a book and an ointment jar; St. Christopher carrying Christ across the stream, and St. James the Great, hold...

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Bullfinch and flowers (fol. 18r)
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Bullfinch and flowers (fol. 18r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

A full border decorated with wild roses, columbine, heartsease, speedwells, pinks, a blue daisy (purple-stemmed aster), acanthus leaves, a butterfly, a bullfinch, and other birds. 10-line foliate init...

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[Preces]
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[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...

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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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