Calendar, with each month occupying two pages, and accompanying miniatures of the signs of the Zodiac and labours of the month. Notable saints in the calendar include: 19 January: St Wulfstan. 2 March: St Cedda. 18 March: Edward the Confessor. 20 March: St Cuthbert. 3 April: St Richard. 19...
Psalter, illustrated with miniatures of the Life of Christ, and bas-de-page scenes with images from the bestiary, legends of saints, and other sources (including hunting scenes). Descriptions: f. 84r: Inscription by Henry Manners, 2nd earl of Rutland (1526 - 1563), courtier and soldier, arrest...
Canticles, with scenes from the Passion of Christ and other miniatures. Decoration: f. 280v: Miniature of four scenes of the Resurrection in quatrefoils, with: (top left) Christ lying in the uncovered sepulchre, with soldiers apparently repulsing a disciple (perhaps Joseph of Arimathaea); (top...
Litany, with miniatures of saints and scenes from the Bible
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Litany, with miniatures of saints, scenes from the Bible, and bas-de-page scenes. Decoration: f. 302v: Miniature of the Last Judgement, with an historiated initial 'R' of a group of bishops, and a bas-de-page scene of Paul giving a letter to a messenger. f. 303r: Two-register miniature of P...
Inscription by Customs Officer Baldwin Smith, who seized the manuscript in the course of his duties in October 1553 and presented it to Queen Mary Tudor: inscribed 'hunc librum nautis ad exteros transvehendum datu[m]: / spectatus et honestus vir Baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigal...
Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
This item consists of fragments of canon tables, apparently taken from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, possibly made in Northumbria. The Greek letter 'pi' appears in a colophon. Due to the size of the manuscript fragments, it is possible that they come from the same volume as Cambridge...
This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
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This item contains extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche (beginning 'Augustinus quoque sanctus in sermonibus de sabbato Pasche refert et hec'), as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus and fragments of Cassiodorus Senator's Expositio Psalmorum. There are lar...
Book of 28 motets, 6 Latin secular pieces, and 1 canon (a later addition)
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28 motets for four voices, in parts, in Latin, with 6 Latin secular pieces, all anonymous. On an inserted paper sheet (f. 1v, double-sized and folded over) is also a puzzle-canon upon the motto ''Honi soit qui mal y pense'', the notes written around a Garter. (See Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Man...
