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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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Pen-flourished initial 'I'(n dei nomine amen)., The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

Church, London. 5 large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 2, 9, 10v, 11v). Marginal notations and rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

Christ in Majesty or God the Father seated in a mandorla on a rainbow, carrying a gold sceptre in his right hand and an orb in his left, with 'Beati immaculati' in display text (top miniature)., Cutting from a Breviary, containing text from psalm 118

same Breviary are Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1951.548 and 1953.21 (see P. D’Ancora and E. Aeschlimann, The Art of Illumination. London, 1969, p. 230, pl. 131; and Mirella Levi D’Ancona, ~The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School~ (Florence: Leo

Obits for several days in the month of January, written in several 15th-century hands in different periods., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

Lists of the dead (the 'necrology') for the month of September, with the names of bishops, clergy, noble patrons, and members of the community., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

The acts of Thomas Chyllyndene, prior of Christ Church who died in 1411, with a space for an initial., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

Decorated initial with the heraldic arms of a 'gold stone' of Thomas Goldstone and partial border at the beginning of his acts, with a bishop's mitre in the margin. Goldstone was a prior of Christ Church in the early sixteenth century., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

Added foliate headpiece and decorated initial in John Chrysostom's Commentary in Matthaeum., Homilies on Matthew (index In Matthaeum), imperfect

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 9; its bookplate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

Decorated initial 'B'(arbara), at the beginning of Martial's Epigrams., Epigrams

Coloured drawing of the Tree of Jesse, at the beginning of the Psalms., Psalter

Coloured drawing of David with a harp and Saul on horseback, at the beginning of an introductory hymn., Psalter

White vine initial 'C'(yrus), at the beginning of book 3., Cyropaedia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

Decorated initial 'A'(d), at the beginning of Johannes de Deo's Flores legum super cavillationibus., Flores legum super cavillationibus, Secretum secretorum, and other juridical or theological texts (incomplete)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

Lower part of the three-sided border with a lion, at the beginning of Johannes de Deo's Flores legum super cavillationibus., Flores legum super cavillationibus, Secretum secretorum, and other juridical or theological texts (incomplete)

Historiated initial 'L' of the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (bottom miniature)., Cutting from a Gradual

(verso). Cutting from a Gradual Presented by John E. Leary, violin and pianoforte instructor, of 59 Hazelville Road, Hornsey Lane, [London] N, 1930: his business card attached to the mount (f. 1). Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds Italy, N.

Miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems, with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown and supported by two white lions, and a foliate initial 'D'(es nouvelles), introducing the poem Des nouvelles d'Albyon., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demands d'amour; Le liver dot grace entire sure le fait du government d'un prince

Miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems, with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown and supported by two

Detail of a miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demands d'amour; Le liver dot grace entire sure le fait du government d'un prince

Detail of a miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems. Includes the Poems of Charles, duke of Orléans, written during his captivity in England (1415-1440)

Miniature of Nebuchadnezzar in bed with the Image of precious metals at the beginning of the prologue to Gower's Confessio amantis., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

Miniature of Nebuchadnezzar in bed with the Image of precious metals, and decorated initial 'O'(f hem) with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering extending into the margins at the beginning of the prologue to Gower's Confessio amantis., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

Miniature of the Lover kneeling before the Confessor in a landscape at the beginning of book 1 of Gower's Confessio amantis, with an acanthus frame surrounding the miniature and decorated initial 'I'( may)., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

Puzzle initial 'E'(duuardus) at the beginning of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I, Statutes of England (index Statuta Angliae, Statute book) preceded by (ff. 1-7v) a list of contents

of Harefield: with his armorial bookplate engraved with his motto and the legend 'Sr. George Cooke / of the Inner-Temple, London. / Chief Prothonotary of the Court / of Common-Pleas Westminster / 1727'.Francis Hargrave (b. 1740/41, d. 1821), legal writer.Purchased

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