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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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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 24686, f 136r

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Title:
Prayer
Scope & Content:
A short prayer in Anglo-Norman French, incipit: 'Deux seez prest a moy cheitive peccheresse e gardeyn de moy touz les jours de ma vie...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

4. Add MS 24686, ff 2r-4v

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Add MS 24686, ff 2r-4v
Title:
Prefatory miniatures
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-1316
Extent:
2 folios.

5. Add MS 24686, ff 5r-135v

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Add MS 24686, ff 5r-135v
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1284-1316
Extent:
131 folios.

6. 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

7. 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

8. Add MS 50001

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Add MS 50001
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

9. Cotton MS Domitian A XVII

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Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
Title:
Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1430
Extent:

288 folios.

10. Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 1r-1v

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Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Breviary (the 'Breviary of Margaret of York'), fragment
Scope & Content:
A leaf from the Breviary of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy (now Cambridge, St John's College, ms H. 13), used as a frontispiece. The original border includes an image of King David praying, painted by the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, the coat of arms of Margaret of York impaling tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1475-1480
Extent:

1 folio.