Illuminated Manuscripts

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• 1 May, in a Martyrology

  1 May, in a Martyrology

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  Monasteries had special services everyday in which the dead of the community were commemorated. I...  [More details]

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• A 14th-Century Pressmark of Rochester Priory and Decorated Letters, in 'Flowers of the Psalter' by Letbert

  A 14th-Century Pressmark of Rochester Priory and Decorated Letters, in 'Flowers of the Psalter' by Letbert

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  Medieval authors sometimes produced books which were compilations of excerpts from earlier theolo...  [More details]

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  A 14th-Century Pressmark of Rochester Priory and Decorated Letters, in 'Flowers of the Psalter' by Letbert

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• A Beaver Hunt, In A Bestiary

  A Beaver Hunt, In A Bestiary

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  In addition to their often attractive illustrations, bestiaries are appealing because--with their...  [More details]

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• A Benedictine Monk Praying To God, In The Initial To Psalm 101, In 'The Map Psalter'

  A Benedictine Monk Praying To God, In The Initial To Psalm 101, In 'The Map Psalter'

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  This Psalter is famous for, and named after, its full-page miniature of a map of the world, which...  [More details]

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• A Bestiary

  A Bestiary

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  Bestiaries relate the behaviour of real and imaginary animals to the behaviour of Christ and huma...  [More details]

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• A Biblical History, In A Collection of Theological Writings

  A Biblical History, In A Collection of Theological Writings

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  By the 13th century, vernacular languages (languages of contemporary use) could be used for nearl...  [More details]

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• A briefe of all the men trayned [trained] and vntrayned [untrained] furnished of everie Sessions [in Lincoln]

  A briefe of all the men trayned [trained] and vntrayned [untrained] furnished of everie Sessions [in Lincoln]

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  This is a page from an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Se...  [More details]

  A briefe of all the men trayned [trained] and vntrayned [untrained] furnished of everie Sessions [in Lincoln] - Zoom-able Image

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  A briefe of all the men trayned [trained] and vntrayned [untrained] furnished of everie Sessions [in Lincoln]

  A briefe of all the men trayned [trained] and vntrayned [untrained] furnished of everie Sessions [in Lincoln] - Thumbnail
• A Calendar For December, In A Volume Of Chronological Treatises By Bede And Helperic

  A Calendar For December, In A Volume Of Chronological Treatises By Bede And Helperic

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  The collection included a calendar, which would have been essential for calculating the date of E...  [More details]

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• A Calendrical Table, In A Scientific Textbook

  A Calendrical Table, In A Scientific Textbook

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  The 16th-century English bibliophile, Robert Cotton, sometimes bound together unrelated manuscrip...  [More details]

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• A Canon Table With Angel, in the 'Bury Gospels'

  A Canon Table With Angel, in the 'Bury Gospels'

  Pen and ink on paper

  1840

  Add. MS 16945

  f.39

  Topographical Drawing

  After the 9th-century Danish invasions and 10th-century reform of monasteries, the kind of decora...  [More details]

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