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1. Kings MS 1-446

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 1-446
Title:
King's Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by George III and transferred to the British Museum in 1824 by George IV. c 1100-c 1800. 446 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1800
Extent:
448 items

2. Kings MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 2
Title:
Bible (imperfect, with Joshua 13-Hebrews 6 only)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an imperfect 13th-century Bible of the Vulgate text, beginning with Joshua 13 and ending in Hebrews 6. The manuscript is wanting many leaves at the beginning and end, and after f. 148 (Psalms 117:121-Wisdom 12: 25), as well as five after f. 334 (Galatians 3:19-1 Thessalonians ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Kings MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 3
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. i, Genesis-Job, ff. 282, 1797.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 item

4. Kings MS 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 3-4
Title:
BIBLE, in English, authorized version; written for George III 'by Alexr. Weir, student of Divinity, Edinburgh, 1797'. In two volumes: vol. i, Genesis-Job; vol. ii, Psalms-Revelation, with title-page, dated 1798, prefixed to the New Testament (f. 165). At the end (vol. ii, f. 303) are added tables of (a) kindred and affinity, (b) divisions of time, (c) offices and conditions of men, (d) weights and measures, (e) money. Paper; ff. 282, 304. 10 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. A.D. 1797, 1798. Double colum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1798
Extent:
2 items

5. Kings MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 4
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. ii, Psalms-Revelation, ff. 304, 1798.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
1 item

6. Kings MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 5
Title:
Biblia Pauperum
Scope & Content:
Biblia Pauperum, a picture Bible including a series of images of the life of Christ with Old Testament prefigurations, with three miniatures on every recto. Each miniature of the Christological cycle is accompanied by bust-length portraits of apostles and prophets holding scrolls and corresponds...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1395-1400
Extent:

1 volume

7. Kings MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 6
Title:
Scope & Content:
HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents:-(1) Calendar, in French: SS. Lupus, Giles, Denis, and Martin in gold. f 1 ;-(2) The four Gospel-lessons. f. 13 (two pairs of leaves, ff. 15-18 and 16-17, misbound ; proper order, ff. 16, 15, 18, 17);- (3) ' Obsecro te 'and ' 0 intemerata'. ff. 17 b, 19, 22;-(4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:
1 item

8. Kings MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 7
Title:
Scope & Content:
HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents :(i) Calendar, with many French saints, including Eutropius, Bishop [of Saintes] (Apr. 30), and Ausonius, Bishop [of Angoulême] (May 22), both in blue, besides several others connected with S.W. France; also with 'Dedicatio eclesie Engolism' [Angoulême] in blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Kings MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 8
Title:
Scope & Content:
HOURS, &C., in Latin, apparently of French Benedictine use of the congregation of Tiron (see below, artt. 2, 3, 6, 7). Contents:-(i) Hours of the Virgin. f. 1;(2) 'Suffragia per totum annum dicenda post laudes et vesperas': commemorations of the Trinity, Cross, S. Benedict, All Saints, and '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume