Prefatory miniatures were gathered together and probably added to the manuscript for Elizabeth de Bohun between 1302 and 1316. They include: 3 full-page miniatures of saints, each in 4 compartments, with the saints' names inscribed above the upper compartments, or in scrolls in the lower margin...
The Psalter includes: Calendar (ff. 5r-10v); including added obits of the Haustede family (13th century); queen Eleanor of Castile (1290; f. 7v); Elizabeth de Bohun, countess of Hereford; daughter of Edward I (1316; f. 7r); Sir Roger de Mereworth (14th century f. 8r); Eleanor de Bar, daughter of...
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
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Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Filippo Alberici, Tabula Cebetis, and De mortis effectibus
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Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Tabula Cebetis; rubric to the prologue: 'Ad excelsum potentissimumque Henricum septimum Angliae regem: Fratris Philippi Alberici Mantuani carmen in Tabulum Cebetis carminibus ac picturis intextam'; incipit to the prologue: 'Maxime terrarum' (f. 1r); rubric to the poem: 'T...
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
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Content: ff. 1-129v: The manuscript preserves a series of four agreements (indentures) made on 16 July 1504 between Henry VII and the abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey concerning the King’s new burial chapel that was designed to replace an earlier structure at the east end of the church. T...
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
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Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (f...
The four Gospels, in Jerome's translation. Detailed contents: (1) Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, incipit: 'Nouum opus facere', f. 1r; (2) Prologue to Jerome's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, incipit: 'Plures fuisse', f. 2v; (3) Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius Carpiano...
Part of a Bible containing the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Kings, according to the Vulgate of Jerome. The New Testament section of this manuscript is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 18; the remainder of the Old Testament section has not survived. Contents: ff. i-vi: added lea...
