English Manuscript

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english-history-trip:likeniobe:one of my favorite things is this manuscript I saw in special collect

The Lindisfarne Gospels - folio 2vBack to my favourite book.  The carpet page introduction incipit o

The Harley Psalter- folio 5v.The beautiful script of the Anglo Saxon scribe Eadui Basan.  Likely mad

Portraits of English Queens and King from the cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, made in 1220E

What a tall drink of puzzle initial P! Digging that English teal.Manuscript description and digital

Ms. Codex 756 -Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelleThis manuscript is an abridged history

Angels with Multi Coloured Wings - The Harley Psalter folio 8rLikely made in Christ Church, Canterbu

Lansdowne Psalter f.12vBeautiful Beatus page from the Lansdowne Psalter - made around 1220 in London

LJS 477 - [Florilegium]This manuscript is a collection of sermons, probably compiled from multiple s

Scenes of miracles, from a 13th century abridgment (abbreviatio) of the Domesday Book.  Above: King

The Lindisfarne Gospels - open at the carpet page introducing the Gospel of St John.  ff. 210v-211 

Illustrations of costumes from “Album Amicorum of a German Soldier” from 1590s;English QueenAnd an u

Ms. Codex 865 - Analysis librorum Physicorum AristotelisThis manuscript features somelecture notes o

King Edward III of England (1312-1377) grants Aquitaine to his son, Edward the Black Prince.  Initia

Lansdowne Psalter f.40rMarginal Monsters from the Lansdowne Psalter - made around 1220 in London Eng

The baptism of Christ.  Miniature from the Benedictional of St. Aethelwold, written by the monk Gode

openmarginalis:“The Physician’s Handbook: English medical and astrological compendium”, ca. 1454 via

The Archangel Gabriel battles the Devil.  Initial ‘G’ from a manuscript of the medieval encyclopedia

The future King David, still a shepherd, slays a lion to protect his flock; a dead bear and unicorn

Illuminated initial B, beginning Psalm 1 (“Beatus vir”).  Folio 30v from the Leiden St.

The priest John Ball encourages the rebel army of Wat Tyler.  Illustration from a manuscript of Jean

Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349. Prick of conscience : manuscript, [13–]MS Eng 515Hough

An initial D (here standing for dentes = “teeth”), containing a scene in which a dentist

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Damage and destruction in realmes. Manuscript, [ca. 1450]MS Eng 530Hought

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