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Total number of records: 74
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 20 |
| Hugh | 3 |
| Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141) | 3 |
| Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109) | 1 |
| Baron Brotherton | 1 |
| Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735) | 1 |
| Benedict Stolzenhagen | 1 |
| Berengaudus (859-) | 1 |
| Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint | 1 |
| Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1153) | 1 |
Count of Earliest date
Four medieval manuscript fragments
c. 800 - 1500
For separate medieval manuscript fragments, majority showing folding marks, suggesting that they were used to strengthen bindings of later books. The fragments have since been flattened.
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...
Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine
de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
c.1312
Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves
Decorative foliage (fol. 8r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Interlaced foliage design in pink, green and ochre, on a blue ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
Initial 'O' (fol. 4v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Red initial 'O' with foliate infill in pink, green and ochre, on a blue ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
The Seven Works of Mercy (fol. 81r)
[ca. 1450s]
A short prose treatise in Middle English. The text begins halfway down fol.81r of the manuscript.
The Seven Works of Mercy (fol. 81v)
[ca. 1450s]
A short prose treatise in Middle English. The text begins halfway down fol.81r of the manuscript.
Decorative foliage (fol. 117v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Foliage design in pink, green, red and ochre, and with a small grotesque head, on a blue ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
[Evangelistarium]
[ca. 1480-1520]
Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower m...
Initial 'O' (fol. 117r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Blue initial 'O' with white penwork ornamentation, and with foliate infill in blue, green, red and ochre, on a pink ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
Initial 'M' (fol. 130r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Initial 'M', halved in red and blue, with a white outline, infilled with curved foliage in blue, green, and red. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
Initial 'O' (fol. 8v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Blue initial 'O' with foliate infill in pink, green and ochre, and with two small grotesque heads, on a red ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.