Content: ff. 1-146v: Psalter, including Canticles, the Penitential Psalms and litany. Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in colours on gold at the beginning of Psalm 1 (f. 7r). 9 other large initials in gold on a blue and pink or blue and brown ground with foliate motifs in white, at the...
Contents: ff. ff. 1-292v: Psalter, imperfect, beginning in Psalm 16. Decoration: 9 historiated initials in colours and gold with partial bar borders at the beginning of Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, and 109, of David pointing to his eye (x 2), David and a devil, a fool, David pray...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
A collection of hagiographies, mostly of early saints, particularly those of Egypt and the Middle East. Contents: f. 1r: doodles of faces and erased ownership inscriptions. ff. 1v-2r: table of contents. ff. 3r-39v: Vitae monachorum aegyptiorum (Lives of the Egyptian Monks). ff. 40r-65v: Pal...
ff. 1r–101v: Fragments of a noted breviary. Decoration: Major sections open with initials in colours (ff. 24v, 48v, 66v, 72r, 83v); other divisions marks with two-line initials alternating in red and blue with penwork in the opposite colour; staves in red.
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum. ff, 26v-33v: Consecratio olei. ff. 34r-49: Consecrationes et ordinationes electi in episcopatum'. Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 36r, 38v, 39r-v, 41v-42r, 44v, 45v). Decoration: Small miniature in colours and ...
ff. 1r–94r: Breviary. ff. 94v–95r: Intercessions for the abbots, priors and patrons of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. f. 99r–v: Added Marian prayer from the late 15th century. Decoration: 3 decorated initials in colours and gold with an acanthus leaf, with a partial bar border and foliate feathering...
Contents: f. 1*v: ownership inscriptions, partly illegible due to water damage. ff. 1r-252v: Gospels. ff. 253r-273v: calendrical texts. ff. 273r-274r: paschalia table. ff. 274v-275v: colophon dated 1576. ff. 275v-276r: homily on humility. f. 276v: Cyrillic alphabet followed by a cryptogra...