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Memoire touchant l'ancienne alliance entre la France et l'Escosse, and related material
c.1700
Contents: (1) [p. 1] Memoire touchant l'ancienne alliance entre la France et l'?cosse; (2) [p. 87] Plainte des Gardes / Escossoises au Roy ou est / l'Origine de ces gardes et de l'alliance de / leur N...
[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...
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.
King David (fol. 23r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
The historiated initial includes King David kneeling in penitence, with the harp beside him. God appears to him at the top of the initial. The decorated border includes strawberries, speedwells, a thi...
Foliate initial (fol. 22v)
[ca. 1100-1150]
9-line initial 'P' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 42r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line initial 'S' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 54r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
6-line initial 'Q' composed of foliage, in red outline, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 77v)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line initial 'S' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.
Wyvern blowing a horn (fol. 78v)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line zoomorphic initial 'S' composed of a wyvern blowing a horn, in red outline, on a light-blue background.
Snake (fol. 80r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line initial 'I' decorated with a snake entwined around and through the initial, outlined in black and red, touched in blue and green.
Miscellany notebook, mainly on theological subjects, compiled by Anthony Higgin and another
Higgin, Anthony
c.1586
Contains miscellaneous notes, apparently for sermons, on baptism, the Lord's supper, etc., with summaries of contemporary controversial theological and some classical works, as follows: (1) f.7: Whita...