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Total number of records: 6
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Top 10: Subject
| Subject | Count |
|---|---|
| books of hours | 2 |
| manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern) | 2 |
| birds | 1 |
| edward ii, king of england, 1284-1327 | 1 |
| edward iii, king of england, 1312-1377 | 1 |
| england. political events. role of england. parliament, 1376 | 1 |
| fabulous animals | 1 |
| great britain | 1 |
| king david | 1 |
| manuscripts, english (medieval and modern) | 1 |
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King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'B' encloses a scene of King David playing his harp. The other initial 'B' encloses the scene of the judgement of Solomon, in which Solomon commands a soldier to divide a living child in two. ...
Pig and bird (fol. 25r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
3-line initial 'B' in gold on a red/blue background with white penwork ornamentation of flowers, and decorated with two small quatrefoils at corners. The initial extends into a 1/4 bar-frame column bo...
[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...
[The festial of English sermons]
Mirk, John (fl. 1403?)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Several leaves missing and damaged, getting more fragmentary towards the end. 2-line initials and highlighting in red, with occational pointing hands in the margins, throughout the Festial. A type...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[ca. 1450-1500]
The quire signatures (b-o) indicate a missing quire at the beginning of the manuscript (a calendar). Decoration: One full-page miniature (Virgin and Child) and two smaller miniatures. One 4-line his...
[Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur]
Antoine de Crèvecoeur; Hughes de Mazijnghem
[1450-1475]
Decoration: 38 large arched miniatures surrounded by framed borders in designs of intricate curving foliage and ivy leaves in pen and gold, enclosing strawberries and flowers in colour. Decorated init...