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1. Add MS 24686, ff 2r-4v

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Add MS 24686, ff 2r-4v
Title:
Prefatory miniatures
Scope & Content:
Prefatory miniatures were gathered together and probably added to the manuscript for Elizabeth de Bohun between 1302 and 1316. They include: 3 full-page miniatures of saints, each in 4 compartments, with the saints' names inscribed above the upper compartments, or in scrolls in the lower margin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-1316
Extent:
2 folios.

2. Add MS 24686, ff 5r-135v

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Add MS 24686, ff 5r-135v
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
The Psalter includes: Calendar (ff. 5r-10v); including added obits of the Haustede family (13th century); queen Eleanor of Castile (1290; f. 7v); Elizabeth de Bohun, countess of Hereford; daughter of Edward I (1316; f. 7r); Sir Roger de Mereworth (14th century f. 8r); Eleanor de Bar, daughter of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1284-1316
Extent:
131 folios.

3. Add MS 50001

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Add MS 50001
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

4. Arundel MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 317
Title:
Filippo Alberici, Tabula Cebetis, and De mortis effectibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Tabula Cebetis; rubric to the prologue: 'Ad excelsum potentissimumque Henricum septimum Angliae regem: Fratris Philippi Alberici Mantuani carmen in Tabulum Cebetis carminibus ac picturis intextam'; incipit to the prologue: 'Maxime terrarum' (f. 1r); rubric to the poem: 'T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1507-c 1507
Extent:

30 folios.

5. Cotton MS Domitian A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
Title:
Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1430
Extent:

288 folios.

6. Harley MS 1498

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1498
Title:
Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1-129v: The manuscript preserves a series of four agreements (indentures) made on 16 July 1504 between Henry VII and the abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey concerning the King’s new burial chapel that was designed to replace an earlier structure at the east end of the church. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1504
Extent:

1 volume.

7. Lansdowne MS 383

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Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Royal MS 1 B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 B VII
Title:
Gospel-book ('The Royal Athelstan Gospels')
Scope & Content:
The four Gospels, in Jerome's translation. Detailed contents: (1) Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, incipit: 'Nouum opus facere', f. 1r; (2) Prologue to Jerome's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, incipit: 'Plures fuisse', f. 2v; (3) Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius Carpiano...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
700-749
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Royal MS 1 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C VII
Title:
The Rochester Bible
Scope & Content:
Part of a Bible containing the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Kings, according to the Vulgate of Jerome. The New Testament section of this manuscript is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 18; the remainder of the Old Testament section has not survived. Contents: ff. i-vi: added lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Royal MS 1 D X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 D X
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Psalter with a calendar (ff. 9r-14r); canticles (ff. 125r-137r): Isaiah 12, 2; Isaiah 38, 10-20; 1 Kings 2, 1-10; Exodus 15, 1-19; Habakkuk 3; Deuteronomy 32, 1- 43; Te Deum; Benedicite; Benedictus; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Gloria in excelsis; Quicumque vult; Magnificat (repeated); Nunc Dimitt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-c 1220
Extent:

139 folios.