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1. Add MS 18850

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Add MS 18850
Title:
Book of Hours (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours of the use of Paris, known as the 'Bedford Hours'. The manuscript was produced in several phases. Its first owner, probably a member of the French royal family, remains untraced, but Louis (d. 1415), duke of Guyenne and dauphin of France, has been suggested as a possible candidate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1430
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 24686

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Add MS 24686
Title:
Psalter ('The Alphonso Psalter')
Scope & Content:
The work on the Alphonso Psalter (formerly known as 'The Tenison Psalter') was begun in c. 1284 when, as the arms on f. 11r suggest, the manuscript was intended as the wedding gift to Prince Alphonso of England (d. 1284), son of Edward I, and his bride Margaret, daughter of Florent V, count of H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1284-1316
Extent:

A parchment codex.

3. Add MS 34890

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Title:
Gospels (The 'Grimbald Gospels'); a copy of a letter from Fulco, Archbishop of Reims, to King Alfred concerning Grimbald
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Jerome, Epistle to Damasus, incipit: 'Beato papae damaso'; ff. 2v-4r: Jerome, Prologue to the Gospels, incipit: 'Plures fuisse'; ff. 4r-5r: Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius carpiano fratri'; ff. 5r-5v: Jerome, 2nd Epistle to Damasus, incipit, 'Sciendum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1012-1023
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 42131

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Add MS 42131
Title:
Psalter and Hours (the 'Bedford Psalter and Hours')
Scope & Content:
Psalter and Hours of Sarum use, known as the Bedford Psalter and Hours, written and illuminated for John Plantagenet (b. 1389; d. 1435), third son of Henry IV, after he (John) became Duke of Bedford in 1414 (includes a motto reading: 'I comminde me unto ȝow. I pray god saue pe duke of bedford', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1414-1422
Extent:

1 volume

5. Egerton MS 3277

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Egerton MS 3277
Title:
Psalter and Hours (the 'Bohun Psalter')
Scope & Content:
'Bohun Psalter'. Psalter and Hours, written for a member of the Bohun family. Contents: ff. 1r-6v, Calendar, in gold, blue or purple, red, and black. All the feasts are among those in the composite Sarum calendar, but not the Visitation (2 July) (indicating a date before 1389) , St Winifred (3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 170 folios.