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1. Add MS 18850/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18850/1
Title:
Detached former binding from Add MS 18850 (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Parts of a 17th-century binding, consisting of a wooden box, 2 red velvet covers with metal clasps and 4 folios. These were formerly attached to Add MS 18850 and are now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
Detached parts of former binding

2. Add MS 24189

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 24189
Title:
Illustrations for Sir John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains no text, but a series of 28 full-page miniatures (tinted grisaille drawings on green parchment) illustrating the Voyage d'outre mer, attributed to Sir John Mandeville (supposedly fl. c. 1357; see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). The only writing is on a banner he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1420
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Add MS 24373/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 24373/1
Title:
Detached binding from Add MS 24373
Scope & Content:
Detached binding of brown leather from Add MS 24373 (Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 695; Scrivener evan. 599; von Soden ε 327).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Leather detached binding

4. Add MS 27860/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 27860/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 27860
Scope & Content:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 27860 of wooden boards with partially-preserved linen and silk covering. The boards are made of two different woods, and there is evidence of board reuse.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Detached binding

5. Add MS 28821/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 28821/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 28821
Scope & Content:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 28821 (Mathematarion in Byzantine music notation), of wooden boards formerly covered with leather. Probably the original binding.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
Detached binding of wooden boards

6. Add MS 40755/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 40755/1
Title:
Detached binding from Add MS 40755
Scope & Content:
An earlier binding for Add MS 40755, of crimson velvet over millboard with striped linen beneath. Circular yellow metal bosses at the corners and in the centre; one of those on the back cover is missing. Underneath this binding is another of brown leather over pasteboard stamped with Persian des...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Binding formerly attached to Add MS 40755

7. Add MS 41330/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 41330/1
Title:
Detached binding from Add MS 41330
Scope & Content:
Wooden boards formerly attached to Add MS 41330, along with fragments of the binding and endpaper with traces of Greek script. Additionally, ff i-iii, consisting of notes on the text of the manuscript by F. H. Marshall, are kept with the binding.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Wooden boards formerly attached to Add MS 41330

8. Add MS 41660/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 41660/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 41660
Scope & Content:
Binding of yellow-brown blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, formerly attached to Add MS 41660.The inside portion of the spine is listed on DM as f i recto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Binding of leather over wooden boards formerly attached to Add MS 41660

9. Add MS 42555/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 42555/1
Title:
Detached former binding components from Add MS 42555 (the 'Abingdon Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Two backing pieces from an 18th-century binding, formerly attached to Add MS 42555 and now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Two detached backing pieces

10. Add MS 61823/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61823/1
Title:
Former chemise or binding cover
Scope & Content:
Remains of the original white tawed leather chemise binding from the Book of Margery Kempe, with the front, rear and spine sections kept separately in 3 plastic covers (formerly Add MS 61823*).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

3 parts of a former chemise binding from Add MS 61823