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1. Kings MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 5
Title:
Biblia Pauperum
Scope & Content:
Biblia Pauperum, a picture Bible including a series of images of the life of Christ with Old Testament prefigurations, with three miniatures on every recto. Each miniature of the Christological cycle is accompanied by bust-length portraits of apostles and prophets holding scrolls and corresponds...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1395-1400
Extent:

1 volume

2. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

3. Kings MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 24
Title:
P. Vergilius Maro, Opera (‘the King’s Virgil’)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-16v: P. Vergilius Maro, Bucolica; ff. 17r-58: P. Vergilius Maro, Georgica, by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verse, 'In primaum librum Georgicon Virgilii' (f. 16v); ff. 58v-244v: P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneis, preceded by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verses, 'quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483-1485
Extent:

1 volume