This volume contains an illustrated copy of the Grande Chronique de Normandie, written in Middle French. Originally compiled around 1350, this anonymous work is based on a 13th-century chronicle of Normandy as well as the 12th-century Roman de Rou by the Norman poet Wace (b. c. 1110, d. after 11...
A collection of readings for major feast days. Contents: ff. 1r-168v: Bible readings, often from the Epistles, for different feast days over the year. f. 168v: A reading for the dedication of a new church. ff. 169r-201r: Bible readings for different saints’ days, including St Louis (f. 191r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar (ff. 1r-12v). The text ends imperfectly, a rubric and a catchword have been erased on f. 198v. Note of S. C. Cockerell comparing use to BL Harley 2952 (erased); Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 1151; BL Add. 32454 [book of hours of the 1st hal...
This manuscript contains a copy of De Secundo Bello Punico (On the Second Punic War) by the Roman historian Titus Livius (b. 59 BC, d. 17), commonly known as Livy. The manuscript's scribe has been identified as the 'Scribe of the Ottoboni Livy' (see Reeve, 'The Third Decade of Livy in Italy' (...
Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
Contents: f. iv: Extract from sales catalogue, pastedown. ff. 2r-6r: Jerome’s prologue to the Vulgate. ff. 6r-557r: Bible. f. 557v: Added verse, 13th century. ff. 1r-v are blank. Decoration: 5 large and smaller historiated initials, with partial borders or foliate extensions into the marg...
Psalter. ff. i, iii are reused leaves from a 14th century liturgical manuscript. ff. 39v, 200v, 288v are blank. Decoration: 8 historiated initials, developing three-sided borders with grotesque and figural decoration, in colours and gold (ff. 1*r, 41r, 66r, 88v, 90r, 113r, 143r, 201r). Large...
Contents: f. 1r: Added prayer, early 14th century. ff. 2r-185v: Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Saint-Omer. ff. 186v-187v: Ownership inscriptions, some erased (ff. 187r-v). Decoration: 12 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 2r-7v). 10 large historiated initials, accompanie...