This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')
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Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with saints in blue, red, mauve and gold. Besides the usual Sarum saints are included the feasts of Dominic (30 May), Botolph (17 June), Mildred (13 July), Paulinus (10 October), Ethelburga of Barking (11 October), the Translation of Wilfred (12 Oct...
Psalter, known as the 'St Omer Psalter', begun in c. 1330-c. 1340 for a member of St Omer family of Mulbarton, Norfolk, but left unfinished. The calendar and large portions of the text are 15th-century additions (ff. 1r-6v, 95r-103v, 128r-153v, 168r-173r). This later work was probably completed ...
Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Arras, with prayers added in the mid-14th century (ff. 1v-3v). ff. 4r, 16v-17r, 196v, 329r-330v, 388v are blank. Decoration: The manuscript belongs to a wider group attributed to a workshop active in Arras at the end of the 13th century (see Randall , Medieva...
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: St Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-359r: Bible. ff. 359v-388r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop o...
Contents: ff. 2r-142r: Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160), Sententiae (Sentences), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'. ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from an anonymous treatise on the seven sins, several quires are lacking, beginning on f. ...
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar. ff. 9r-201v: Psalter and litany (ff. 196v-201r). ff. 202v-229v: A set of prayers, added c 1480-1500. ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 202r, 211v-212v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r-201v) has been attributed to the Ste.-Chapel...
Contents: f. i: Book plate of Henry Yates Thompson, pastedown. ff. ii: Handwritten summary of the sale of the volume in 1836 and 1876. ff. 1r-3r: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-374v: Bible. ff. 375r-412r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an a...
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti'). ff. 1r-v, 14r-v, 96r-v, 146v, 171v-174v, 188r-190v, 238v, 240v-241v are blank. Decoration: 14 large and smaller historiated initials, the first accompanied by a full historiated border with heraldic decoration and all'antica featu...
Pontifical, Use of Mende ('The Pontifical of Guilelmus Durandus')
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A collection of ceremonies conducted by bishops and other senior priests, often with musical notation. Contents: f. 1v: Added notes by a bishop of Comminges, 16th century. ff. 2r-3v: Table of contents. ff. 4r-76r: Rituals for ordaining, consecrating, and baptising. ff. 76r-158r: Rituals for...
