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...
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: St Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-359r: Bible. ff. 359v-388r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop o...
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: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar. ff. 9r-201v: Psalter and litany (ff. 196v-201r). ff. 202v-229v: A set of prayers, added c 1480-1500. ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 202r, 211v-212v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r-201v) has been attributed to the Ste.-Chapel...
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...
This manuscript is a collectar, a liturgical book containing the collects used in the Divine Offices. The volume is known as the 'Ottobeuren Collectar', after the Benedictine abbey of St Alexander and Theodor, in Ottobeuren, Germany, where it was probably commissioned or made by a monk called Re...