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Brotherton Collection4
Medieval Manuscripts4

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
books of hours1
prayer-books1

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From 14002
From 15002
Floral border and initial (fol. 198v)
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Floral border and initial (fol. 198v)

[ca. 1480-1500]

4-line initial in blue, gold, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a pink flower. On the left, a column border decorated with flowers and leaves extending into the top and bottom margins. ...

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Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)
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Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with a female capercaillie (?), columbines (also buds), a strawberry flower, lily of the valley, a small tortoiseshell butterfly, a small waterbird and acanthus leaves. 7-line ...

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

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

Some front and some rear flyleaves are on modern vellum. Decoration: 8 full-page (inserted) miniatures, 7 historiated initials of 9-lines with full decorated borders, 41 historiated initials with bo...

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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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