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

Reference (shelfmark):
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.

12. Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 2r-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 2r-2v
Title:
Cottonian list of contents in the "stylized" hand
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 folio

13. Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 3r–218v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A II, ff 3r–218v
Title:
The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
Scope & Content:
The four Gospels with prefatory texts. The detailed contents are as follows: 1. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (ff. 3r-5v); 2. Prologue to the Gospels (ff. 5v-8r); 3. Letter from Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 8r-9r); 4. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum, II (ff. 9r-9v); 5. Argumentum Evangelii secundum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 9th century-1st quarter 12th century
Extent:

216 folios

14. Egerton MS 3277

Reference (shelfmark):
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.

15. Harley MS 1498

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1498
Title:
Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1504
Extent:

1 volume.

16. Lansdowne MS 383

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

17. Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Former pastedown
Scope & Content:
This folio is a former pastedown from the binding, containing a fragment of a metrical translation of the work of Henry of Saltrey, St Patrick's Purgatory, in French, from the 13th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

18. Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents include: f. 2r: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2v-8v: Calendar, with illuminated roundels of the signs of the zodiac and labours of the month. ff. 9r: Table for calculating the celebration of Easter within a nineteen-year cycle, said to have been communicated by an angel to St Pachomius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
178 folios.

19. Royal MS 1 B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 B VII
Title:
Gospel-book ('The Royal Athelstan Gospels')
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
700-749
Extent:

A parchment codex

20. Royal MS 1 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C VII
Title:
The Rochester Bible
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume