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Feeding the hungry (fol. 48v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The border is historiated with a scene of two men holding plates towards a window of a house from which a group of figures looks out. A face can also be seen appearing in the window on the upper floor...
Coat of arms (fol. 107r)
[ca. 1425]
The 5-line initial 'B' is decorated with a coat of arms: three unidentified charges in black (sable) on a red (gules) field. Bar-frame border of gold and blue/rose vine, decorated with diamond motifs,...
[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...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[ca. 1404-1425]
Decoration: 16 large (5-8-line) initials in blue and pink with white tracery, infilled with flowers, on gold grounds, and within full borders, of gold and vine bars decorated with acanthus leaves and ...
[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
[ca. 1440-1460]
Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....
[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...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Braddyll family
[ca. 1470-1480]
f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...
[Breviarium Eboracense, etc.]
Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Hildyard family
[ca. 1440-1460; 1518; 1550-1600]
Decoration: 2-line initials in blue with red penwork ornamentation (ff. 6-16). Written in textualis quadrata (ff. 6-16), bastard (f. 17r) textualis rotunda (f. 17v), and chancery hand (ff. 18r-71r)....