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12. Lansdowne MS 420
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 420
- Title:
- Psalter
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an illuminated Psalter that was most likely produced in the diocese of London in the 1220s. The manuscript’s style of decoration appears to be influenced by contemporary French Psalters (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1982), pp. 86-87). Of special interest are the man...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1220s
- Extent:
-
1 volume
13. Lansdowne MS 431
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 431
- Title:
- Psalter
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: A psalter with a calendar; ends imperfectly and is lacking Psalm 101 (there is a stub between ff. 75 and 76). Decoration: 12 large 'KL' initials in the calendar in gold with penwork decoration in green, blue, and red, with the occupations of the months and zodiac symbols in colou...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
14. Lansdowne MS 436
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 436
- Title:
- Chronicle and British saints’ lives
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
15. Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131
- Title:
- The ‘Romsey Legendary’
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of British saints’ lives: ff. 6r–9v: Augustine of Canterbury (begins imperfectly). ff. 9v–11v: Laurentius of Canterbury. ff. 11v–14r: Mellitus of Canterbury. ff. 14r–16v: Paulinus of York. ff. 16v–19v: Oswald of Northumbria. ff. 19v–21v: Aidan of Lindisfarne. ff. 21v–23v: Cha...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
16. Lansdowne MS 441
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 441
- Title:
- Indenture between Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an original indenture between Margaret Beaufort (b. 1443, d. 1509), Countess of Richmond and mother of King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), and John Islip (b. 1464, d. 1532), Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry, made on 2 March 150...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2 Mar 1506
- Extent:
-
1 volume
17. Lansdowne MS 453
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 453
- Title:
- Bible
- Scope & Content:
- This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Bible (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms) with prologues attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Pelagius (b. 360, d. 418). Contents: f. 1r-2r: St Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum (Letter 53: To Paulinus). ff. 2r-4r: St Jero...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
18. Lansdowne MS 456
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 456
- Title:
- Genealogical chronicle of English kings to Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
- The text is written on one side of the parchment, in three vertical columns with the central column being double the width of the two flanking columns, so that they could be folded inwards. The parchment was then folded lengthwise, concertina-style, rather than rolled, to form a winged roll-code...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1461-1466
- Extent:
-
1 volume
19. Lansdowne MS 462
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 462
- Title:
- A gradual or antiphonary for the use of Sarum, with the music, being a volume of the same size, and written on vellum in the fourteenth century. Some of its margins are handsomely painted in gold and colours, and others have grotesque subjects at top. The initials are richly executed; several with appropriate figures, but, as to design, coarse and inelegant. On some spare leaves at the beginning and end there are hymns, with "Kyrie eleison," &c. and the music, in a different and later ha...
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1b, 151b, 152. Tenor, or contra-tenor, part of the following fragments of Masses, which were probably harmonized for 4 voices: — 1-7. ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Benedictus.’ Seven settings, f. 1b. 8-16. ‘Kyrie.’ Nine settings, including single ones for Feriæ ii-vi, two for Sunday, and two for days not s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century-16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
20. Lansdowne MS 699
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 699
- Title:
- Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume