The collection comprises miscellaneous liturgical manuscripts acquired
by the Library at different times.
| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 41 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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27886 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Rome. |
| Language |
Latin and French |
| Origin |
French, Paris (?) |
| Date |
c. 1470-1480
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine miniatures by Maître François. Borders, initials. (P&A i.
749)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 383 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 200v St. Christopher wades across river with Christ on his back; he looks back at hermit who holds a lantern aloft with one hand
and a rosary in the other.
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| Bibliography |
| 1995 |
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François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520 [accompanying an exhibition of 1993-4], reprint, Paris: Flammarion & Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1995 [first published 1993], p. 259
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat. Exh.
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| 1993 |
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[Reproduction only] The Baptism and Confirmation Book, London: Ebury Press, 1993, p. 83 (fol. 110r)
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| 1989 |
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[Bookseller's Catalogues] Eberhard König & Heribert Tenschert, Leuchtendes Mittelalter [Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster, Katalog XXI etc.], 6 vols., 1989-1993, V, p. 370
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 58 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30598 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Rome. |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Flemish |
| Date |
c. 1480
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Good borders, initials with arms. Good miniatures added on
separate leaves, c. 1500. Fine script
calligraphically embellished with 'cadeaux'. (P&A i. 359, pl. XXVIII)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 845 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 52v-53r Adoration of the Magi with border of flowers, fruit and arms. Text page has blue 6-line initial D(eus) with hairy man and
woman supporting arms; bar border and two knotwork corner pieces, inside flower border with birds.
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| Bibliography |
| 1997 |
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Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: Der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols. (Ars Nova: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination), Turnhout: Brepols, 1997, p. 221
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| 1995 |
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Susy Marcon, 'Modi decorativi nei codici del Feliciano; aspetti gotici, carolini, antiquari', in L'"Antiquario" Felice Feliciano Veronese tra epigrafia antica, letteratura e arti del libro: Atti del Convegno di Studi Verona,
3-4 giugno 1993, eds. Agostino Contò & Leonardo Quaquarelli (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 89), Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1995,p. 237
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Patricia M. Gathercole, Animals in medieval French manuscript illumination, Lewiston, NY, etc.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, p. 19
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 100 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30604 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Paris. |
| Language |
Latin and French |
| Origin |
French, Paris |
| Date |
c. 1420-1430
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine miniatures, borders, initials. (P&A i. 663, pl. LII) |
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 847 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 848 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 85r Miniature. Pentecost has the Virgin surrounded by the apostles in a church interior. The dove of the Holy Spirit flying down
from a window. Ivy leaf border with cornflowers, carnations and roses.
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| Bibliography |
| 1996 |
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Sandra Penketh, 'Women and Books of Hours', in Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (eds. Lesley Smith & Jane H. M. Taylor), London, Toronto & Buffalo, 1996, pp. 266-280, at pp. 273-4
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| 1989 |
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[Bookseller's Catalogues] Eberhard König & Heribert Tenschert, Leuchtendes Mittelalter [Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster, Katalog XXI etc.], 6 vols., 1989-1993, V, p. 218
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 104 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30605 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Sarum. |
| Language |
English and Latin |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
after 1340 (?) and 15th century, beginning |
| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Good borders, fine historiated and other initials. Drawing added,
fol. 88v, 15th century, beginning. (P&A iii. 592, pl. LXI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 848 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 9v Line-filler decorated with two entwined human-headed dragon grotesques.
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| Bibliography |
| 1999 |
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Kenneth Varty, Reynard, Renart, Reinaert and other foxes in medieval England: the iconographic evidence, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999, p. 296 no. 149
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| 1993 |
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Nigel Morgan, 'Texts and images of Marian devotion in fourteenth-century England', in England in the fourteenth century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Nicholas Rogers (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, III), Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1993, pp. 34-57, figs. 46-9, at p. 36 n. 5; p. 42 n. 31
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| 1992 |
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Josephine Koster Tarvers, '"Thys ys my mystrys boke": English women as readers and writers in late medieval England',
in The uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen, eds. Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob & Marjorie Curry Woods (Studies in medieval culture, 31), Kalamazoo, Michigan:
Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, pp. 305-27, at pp. 318, 323 (List of 'Manuscripts Cited')
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| 1990 |
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M. A. Michael, 'Destruction, reconstruction and invention: the Hungerford Hours and English manuscript illumination of
the early fourteenth century', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 2 (1990), pp. 33-108, at pp. 41, 46
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 153 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30609 |
| Summary of contents |
Portable Psalter (Gallican). |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English, Diocese of Norwich |
| Date |
15th century, beginning |
| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine borders, historiated and other initials. Partly defaced.
(P&A iii. 848, pl. LXXXI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 850 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 25r Blue 7-line initial D(omine) with crowned King David holding his sceptre in one hand and pointing at his eye with the other.
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| Bibliography |
| 1996 |
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Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, II, p. 75; Table I
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
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| 1995 |
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Kathleen L. Scott, 'Limning and book-producing terms and signs in situ in late-medieval English manuscripts: a first listing', in New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A. I. Doyle (eds. Richard Beadle & A. J. Piper), Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995, pp. 142-188, at p. 165 n. 29
SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CI.30
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 184 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30611 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Sarum. |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
15th century, second quarter |
| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine borders, historiated and other initials. (P&A iii. 937,
pl. LXXXIX)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 851 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 7r Blue and pink 6-line initial D(omine) with profile of hooded head in blue inner circle framed by a rosette of leaves. Left
margin has band border with cornerpieces decorated with acanthus leaves; spray border in top and lower margin with flowers.
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| Bibliography |
| 1996 |
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Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, I, p. 78 n. 57
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 186 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30612 |
| Summary of contents |
Book of Hours. Use of Sarum. |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
15th century, beginning |
| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Good miniature, fine borders, initials (unusual style). Damaged.
(P&A iii. 833, pl. LXXXI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 851 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 7r Blue 5-line initial D(eus) with red and white rose in the bowl of the letter. Surround bar border with cornerpieces and acanthus
leaves.
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| Bibliography |
| 1996 |
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Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470): A contribution to the study
of the 15th century book illumination and of the function and meaning of historical symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, Vol. 9, Low Countries Series 6), Louvain: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1996, p. 134
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 198 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30613 |
| Composite |
fols. 1-155 || fols. 156-200 |
| Summary of contents |
Choir Psalter. Augustinian. |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English, North East (?) |
| Date |
14th century, third quarter || 15th century,
end
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine historiated borders and initials. (P&A iii. 651, pl. LXV)
|| Fine borders, initials. (P&A iii. 1133, pl. CVI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 851 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 852 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 46r Blue and rose 8-line initial Q(uid gloriaris) with David and Goliath. Lower border with lion masks, interlace and white-shaded
red and blue leaves.
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| Manuscript image |
fol. 187v Gold initial A(ve Maris Stella) on blue and red ground with white filigree decoration. Floriated border with acanthus leaves,
gold pine cones, gold clasp and aroids.
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| Bibliography |
| 1995 |
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John B. Friedman, Northern English books, owners and makers in the late Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995, p. 112
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| 1994 |
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Christopher de Hamel, A history of illuminated manuscripts, 2nd edn., London 1994, p. 218, pl. 200
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| 1993 |
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[Reproductions only] The Marriage Book, London: Ebury Press, 1993, p. 26 (fol. 91v); p. 27 (fol. 93v)
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 396 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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30619 |
| Summary of contents |
Portable Psalter. Secular. |
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Flemish, Bruges |
| Date |
c. 1250-1260
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine miniatures, borders, historiated and other initials. The
miniature on fol. 14v is by a later hand, 13th century, end. (P&A i. 282,
pl. XX)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 854 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 8v Miniature. Nativity. Blue and rose frame with heads of the gospel writers in the corners.
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| Bibliography |
| 1997 |
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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, Vol. III, Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 Parts, by Lilian M. C. Randall et al., Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997, Cat. 214, 217
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| 1993 |
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Mirjam M. Foot, 'Medieval painted book edges' [written 1989 for Studies in Book Making and Conservation in Honour of Roger Powell, still (1993) announced as 'forthcoming'], reprinted in her Studies in the history of bookbinding [collected articles], Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993, pp. 439-54, at pp. 443-4
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| 1988 |
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Judith H. Oliver, Gothic manuscript illumination in the diocese of Liège (c. 1250 - c. 1330), 2 vols. (Corpus of illuminated manuscripts from the Low Countries, ed. Maurits Smeyers, vols. 2-3), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters,
1988, vol. I, p. 81; vol. II, p. 293
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Liturg. 407 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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29071 |
| Summary of contents |
Portable Psalter (Gallican). Benedictine, later adapted for
Franciscan Use. French and Latin additions, 14th century, middle.
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| Language |
Latin and French |
| Origin |
English, Winchester (?) |
| Date |
13th century, first quarter and 14th century,
middle
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Fine historiated border and historiated initials. (P&A iii.
360, pl. XXXI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 5, p. 552 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 94v Large blue historiated initial S(alvum me fac) with dragon head: Jonah is thrown overboard by two men in a sailing boat, he
falls into the jaws of a whale.
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| Bibliography |
| 1998 |
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Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer, Die Gumbertusbibel: Codex 1 der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Ein Regensburger Bildprogramm des späten 12. Jahrhunderts (Regensburger Studien und Quellen zur Kulturgeschichte, 7), Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1998, p. 98
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| 1995 |
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David N. Bell, What nuns read: books and libraries in medieval English nunneries (Cistercian Studies Series, 158), Kalamazoo, MI, & Spencer, MA, 1995, p. 104: Amesbury 5
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| 1994 |
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Susanne Wittekind, Kommentar mit Bildern: Zur Ausstattung mittelalterlicher Psalmenkommentare und Verwendung der Davidgeschichte in Texten und
Bildern am Beispiel des Psalmenkommentars des Petrus Lombardus (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc. Bibl. 59) (Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XXVIII, Kunstgeschichte, Band 212), Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 44, 306
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| 1993 |
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[Reproduction only] The Baptism and Confirmation Book, London: Ebury Press, 1993, p. 56 (fol. 40r)
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