Contents: f. 1r: Three extracts with the rubric 'Laus sancti Augustini super psalterium', beginning 'Canticum psalmorum animas decorat', 'Canticum psalmorum carmen electum', and 'In psalterio solo'. ff. 1r-4r: Easter tables for the 532 years from 1128-1659, with an explanation beginning, 'In...
The Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman with commentary and with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated into Anglo-Norman. The illuminations include 73 miniatures in colours and gold, the subjects of which are as follows: f. 1r, Paul preaching. f. 1v, John and representatives of the churches...
Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
Scope & Content:
A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary...
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...
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ce...
A Selection of Psalms, Litanies and Prayers in Latin, commissioned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fourth son of Henry IV (1391-1447). The contents are: ff. 1r-6v, Calendar, of Sarum use, with red-letter feasts of SS. Wulstan, David, Chad, Edward king and martyr., Cuthbert (and transl.), Ri...
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...
The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
