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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)29
books of hours15
english poetry3
breviaries2
manuscripts, english (medieval and modern)2
prayer-books2
sermons, latin2
bible1
carthusians1
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Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)1
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Braddyll Family1
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius1
Clifton Family1
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Ihesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum (image 17)
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Ihesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum (image 17)

[ca. 1461-1483]

The roundel has a small naked figure depicted within a mandorla, with a Cross under its arm (32). The setting is a field with trees, and a city can be seen in the distance. The words above the roundel...

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[Questiones Quodlibeticæ cum Glossis]
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[Questiones Quodlibeticæ cum Glossis]

Duns Scotus, John (1266-1308)

[1400-1450]

Slips with additions have been inserted within the main text block. The volume is richly glossed throughout. Decoration: incipit initial 'A' in blue and red, with red pen-ornament. 2-line initials...

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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
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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...

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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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[The Anonimalle Chronicle]
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[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...

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Prick of Conscience
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Prick of Conscience

[ca. 1380-1420]

19th-century pagination, probably by T. C. Neale. Damp staining on several leaves. Initials: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections. Modern front flyleaves contain extensive 19th...

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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose

[ca. 1450s]

Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red with pen ornamentation in brown. Capitals touched in red. Catchwords in cartouches. Occasional pointing hand. Written in anglicana (main text) and anglicana f...

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[Sermons, etc.]
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[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...

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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
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[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...

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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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[Sermons, etc.]
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[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...

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Materials for Franciscan use
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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...

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