The Finding of the Cross (fol. 104v)
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...
Medieval Manuscripts
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[Questiones Quodlibeticæ cum Glossis]
Slips with additions have been inserted within the main text block. The volume is richly glossed throughout. Decoration: incipit initial 'A' in bl...
Floral border (fol. 45r)
Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves. From the border clusters of spray penwork extend gol...
Coat of arms (fol. 22r)
The 4-line initial 'K' is decorated with a coat of arms: three red (gules) flower sheaves (?) on a black (sable) bend, with, above, a gold (or) fleur-...
Floral border (fol. 149r)
Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, hea...
Decorative design (fol. 130v)
A crescent-shaped (like a rotated initial 'C') decorative design in red, infilled with red and green tendrils, with white penwork circles, on a light ...
Two cockerels (fol. 56r)
The border has two cockerels, peas in pods, pansies, thistles and acanthus leaves. 6-line initial in red with write penwork ornamentation is infilled ...
Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
Vertical catch words. Decoration: 3-line initial in gold on a blue and green ground and a penwork border in purple with flowers and a bird (f. 1r). ...
St. Martha (fol. 81r)
St. Martha, standing by a cave from which a monster emerges, and holding a book and a cross. Context: Prayers: Prayer to Saint Martha...
St. Dorothy of Caesarea (fol. 67v)
St. Dorothy is standing by a little girl (a disguised angel) with a basket of roses and apples. (The saint asked her to take them as a gift to the mo...