Illuminated manuscripts.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.
The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.
'Culross psalter', made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross.
Devotional and instructional work compiled for the training of novices in the Franciscan order., 15th century.
Devotional work in a hand of the fourteenth century., 14th century.
Devotions for All Souls., 15th century.
Dīwān of Ḣāfiz̤, with the introduction by Muḣammad Gulandām.
A Persian manuscript, with illumination on folio 1 and at the beginning of the Dīwān on folio 12 verso.
The binding is ornamented with paintings of flowers and birds on the outside and of a man and boy in Persian costume inside, at both ends.
Dupuy book of hours, produced in Flanders in the late 15th century.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius., 1310-1320.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretals' of Pope Gregory IX; with a gloss by Bernard of Botone. Also included are short excerpts of works by Gratian and Raynald, Archbishop of Rheims.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna., 1330 - 1335.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the allegorical poem 'Le Chevalier délibéré' by Olivier de la Marche, composed in 1483.
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
Five leaves from a book of hours, England., 15th century.
The leaves contain part of the first nocturn of matins in the Office for the Dead, from Psalm 6, verse 6 to the second reading (Job 10, verse 4). There is a lacuna between folios 3 and 4 and two leaves are probably missing here.
There are two illuminated 2-line initials (folios 2 and 5) with bar borders in red, blue and gold. Small initials in gold and penwork throughout.
Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.
Fowlis Easter breviary.
Fragmentary devotional work., 15th century.
The fragment consists of seven gatherings (lacking a leaf after folio 47), and the back cover with a flyleaf (folio 56) and pastedown. As well as the front cover, entire gatherings have been lost before folio 1 and after folio 55. Surviving contents consist of prayers to the Virgin. There are a few decorated initials in red and green, and the rubrics are in red.
Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.
'Gulistān' of Sa'dī., 18th century.
The manuscript contains the Introduction and eight Sections, in a small, clear Nasta'līq hand, not quite modern. Illuminated pages, folios 1 verso, 2.