These folios contain a fragment of a pontifical which includes an ordo for the blessing of oils. Decoration: initials in red, some oxidized, and red rubics throughout.
These folios contain a large benedictional traditionally known as the 'Canterbury Benedictional'. This benedictional contains almost twice as many benedictions as earlier benedictionals, like Æthelwold's Benedictional (Add MS 49598). Decoration: initials, rubrics, and decorative punctuation in...
Psalter (addition to the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-115r: Ferial Psalter, imperfect at the beginning, starts at the end of Psalm 2, incipit: 'via iusta'. ff. 116r-152r: Common of Saints. ff. 152v-153v are ruled but blank. Decoration: 7 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and thre...
Breviary ('the Breviary of John the Fearles and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
The summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearless and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which originally formed a single volume together with Add. MS 35311 containing the winter portion. The text of the Sanctorale in Add. MS 35311 breaks off at f. 388v, where the catchword indicates its...