Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss
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f. 1r: Prayers to Christ and Mary. ff. 1v–7v: Calendar. ff. 8r–9r: Prayers. ff. 9v–134r: Psalter. ff. 134r–148v: Canticles. ff. 148v–150v: Litany. ff. 151r–184v: Prayers (some of those on ff. 183r–184v later additions). Decoration: 1 large full-page miniature of crucified Christ with Mar...
Contents: f. iv: Extract from sales catalogue, pastedown. ff. 2r-6r: Jerome’s prologue to the Vulgate. ff. 6r-557r: Bible. f. 557v: Added verse, 13th century. ff. 1r-v are blank. Decoration: 5 large and smaller historiated initials, with partial borders or foliate extensions into the marg...
Psalter. ff. i, iii are reused leaves from a 14th century liturgical manuscript. ff. 39v, 200v, 288v are blank. Decoration: 8 historiated initials, developing three-sided borders with grotesque and figural decoration, in colours and gold (ff. 1*r, 41r, 66r, 88v, 90r, 113r, 143r, 201r). Large...
Contents: f. 1r: Added prayer, early 14th century. ff. 2r-185v: Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Saint-Omer. ff. 186v-187v: Ownership inscriptions, some erased (ff. 187r-v). Decoration: 12 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 2r-7v). 10 large historiated initials, accompanie...
This manuscript contains a copy of a Latin treatise known as De moribus (On customs), written by William of Auvergne (b. 1180/90, d. 1249), a French theologian and philosopher who served as Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death. The text represents the second part of his De virtutibus et vit...
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin')
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Book of Hours, Use of Paris, missing calendar, with a sales catalogue cutting from Auguste Brölemann’s sale (f. iii), and early 20th century notes on the heraldry of the Rolin family, French (f. iv). (On the Rolin family see Abbé Boulemier, Nicolas Rolin, chancelier de Bourgogne: Notice histori...
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, with handwritten summary of contents (f. iii) and ownership inscriptions and descriptions of provenance (ff. iv-v), 17th and 18th century. f. 229v is blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: 12 calendar roundels, in the top right-hand corner of each page (ff. 1r...
ff. 1r-108r : John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund. f. ixr: Added English proverb in a 15th-century hand, 'A man without mercie of mercie shall misse / Out hee shall have mercie that mercifull is'. f. 108v: Added English rhyme (?), partially erased, in a 15th-century hand: '... in ...
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Index of statutes. ff. 41r-103v: Statutes of Edward III. ff. 104r-146v: Statutes of Richard II. ff. 147r-172r: Statutes of Henry IV. ff. 172v-190v: Statutes of Henry V. ff. 191r-253v: Statutes of Henry VI, ending imperfectly with the November 1450 parliament, followed...
