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Cest le liure des fays des Romains conpille en[sem]ble de la [...]uste et de suetoyne et du lucain [...]

[1440-1460]

The outer columns of text on ff. 6-10 are lacking. Columns are numbered with modern pencil throughout, 1-975. Decoration: 6-line incipit initial 'A' in red and green, decorated with red pen-orname...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[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...

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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose

[ca. 1450s]

Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red with pen ornamentation in brown. Capitals touched in red. Catchwords in cartouches. Occasional pointing hand. Written in anglicana (main text) and anglicana f...

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