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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 35310-35324 Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 35311

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Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. This manuscript comprises the winter portion of the Breviary made for John the Fearless (b. 1371, d. 1419), Duke of Bavaria, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria (b. 1363, d. 1423). It originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1413-1419
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 35313

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Title:
Book of Hours, use of Rome (the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile'. ff. 1v-7r: Calendar: the saints in red include, St Rémi (local spelling Remigy) and St Bavon (Bavonis) of Ghent (1 October), Donatian, Bishop of Reims [translated to Bruges] (14 October), and Eligius, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume