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Total number of records: 36
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 2 |
| Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735) | 1 |
| Browne, Thomas (1706) | 1 |
| Cicero, Marcus Tullius | 1 |
| Clifton Family | 1 |
| Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard | 1 |
| Dupin, Jacques | 1 |
| Greenwood, James | 1 |
| Jacobus De Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298) | 1 |
| Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694 | 1 |
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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...
De officiis
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
[12th century]
Ff. 39-41 were written by a later, possibly 14th-century, hand. Annotations throughout the manuscript are written in three different hands. Decoration: a 2-line initial in red begins the first book ...
[In epistolas canonicas]
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
[ca. 1100-1150]
Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...
Legenda aurea sanctorum
Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
[ca. 1300-1320]
The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45. Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated ...
Anastasius
c13th century
Qaestiones et Responsiones. A copy of the questions and responses relating to pastoral theology attributed to the seventh-century monk Anastasius of Sinai, but probably compiled in the ninth or tenth ...
Theodoretus Interpretatio in Psalmos
c.11th century
An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.
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'...
Lacrymae Cantabrigienses in obitum serenissimae Reginae Mariae
Browne, Thomas (1706); University of Cambridge
1694/5
Edited by Thomas Browne, Master of Pembroke and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, whose name appears on A2r.
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...
Foliate initial (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
9-line initial 'I' composed of foliage, in red outline, decorated with a light blue strip of paint.
Jacobus de Voragine teaching (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1300-1320]
10-line intial 'U', in blue decorated with white, on a gold ground, historiated with the scene of Jacobus Januensis (Jacobus de Voragine), the author of the Golden Legend, teaching a group of people. ...