The Creation (image 1)
Six roundels depicting God's creation: the separation of sky and earth (1), creation of trees and plants (2), creation of waters and fishes (3), creat...
Medieval Manuscripts
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Decorated initials (fol. 12r)
Two intials 'L' in gold on pink/blue grounds. Context: The Golden Legend: Life of St Lucy: Lucia dicitur a luce...
Foliate initial (fol. 42r)
5-line initial 'S' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background. Context: Bede's commentary on the Catholic...
Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The...
The Finding of the Cross (fol. 105v)
Part of the South English Legendary Brotherton Collection MS 501, fols 103r, 104r-107v (bound in the wrong order; correct reading order is 107r-v, 1...
The Seven Works of Mercy (fol. 81r)
A short prose treatise in Middle English. The text begins halfway down fol.81r of the manuscript. Brotherton Collection MS 501, fol. 81r-v...
Floral border (fol. 71r)
Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves and aroid flowers. From the border clusters of spray ...
Coat of arms (fol. 55r)
The 3-line initial 'V' is decorated with a coat of arms: blue (azure) chevron on a black (sable) field, with three unidentified charges. Bar-frame bor...
[Beverley prayer book]
Front flyleaves: [i-ii] modern vellum, i-iv paper, [vii-viii] modern vellum. Rear flyleaves are modern vellum. Catchwords for each quire are in scroll...
Burial service (fol. 7v)
Full-page miniature depicting a burial service, defaced in the Reformation period and partially repainted much later. A priest stands at the altar, fo...