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Additional 23211
Fragments containing West Saxon and East Saxon royal genealogies (f. 1), Latin verses for calculating Easter (f. 1v) and a martyrology in Old English (f. 2r-2v)
England (S.W.); 4th quarter of the 9th century

Additional 32125   ff. 1-58
Wace; Gaimar (?), Roman de Brut (ff. 1-57); Description of England, 134 lines (ff. 58r-v)
England; 4th quarter of the 13th century
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Text page

f. 26
Text page

Additional 32246
Prisciano; Aelfric, Part of the Excerptiones with Old English and Latin marginal glosses; Colloquy, imperfect (ff. 18-19)
England; 1st half of the 11th century

Additional 34652   f. 2
One leaf from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: the preface with West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899)
England, S. E. (Winchester); 4th quarter of the 11th century
 
Additional 34652   f. 3
Leaf from the bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete)
England; 2nd half of the 11th century
 
Additional 34652   f. 6
End of Song of songs (IV.7 to end) and beginning of Wisdom (fragment)
England (S.); 4th quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century

Additional 37517   ff. 2-139
Psalter, in the Roman version (ff. 4-95), with canticles (ff. 96-104), a short litany (f. 104), a hymnal (ff. 105-128) and monastic canticles (ff. 129-135); added calendar (ff. 2,3) (the 'Bosworth Psalter')
England, S. E. (Canterbury?); 4th quarter of the 10th century
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Decorated initial

f. 4
Decorated initial
Zoo-anthromorphic initial

f. 20
Zoo-anthromorphic initial
Decorated initial

f. 33
Decorated initial
 
Large decorated initial

f. 64v
Large decorated initial
Decorated initial

f. 105
Decorated initial
Incomplete initials

f. 135v
Incomplete initials
 
 
Additional 37517   128v
Added drawing of Christ
England, S.E. (Canterbury?); 12th century
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Christ enthroned

f. 128v
Christ enthroned

Additional 38662
Guy of Warwick , Anglo-Norman romance
France or England; 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
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Puzzle initial

f. 1
Puzzle initial
Decorated initials

f. 17v
Decorated initials

Additional 40165A   ff. 6-7
Martyrology fragment
England, S. W.?; 4th quarter of the 9th century

Additional 47967   ff. 2-87
Orosius, Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')
England, S. (Winchester?); Between c. 892 and c. 925
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Evangelist symbols

f. 1
Evangelist symbols
Evangelist symbols

f. 1
Evangelist symbols
Matthew the Evangelist

f. 1v
Matthew the Evangelist
 
Text page

f. 2
Text page
Zoomorphic initial

f. 5v
Zoomorphic initial
Zoomorphic initial

f. 5v
Zoomorphic initial
 
Zoomorphic initial

f. 31v
Zoomorphic initial
Zoomorphic initial

f. 31v
Zoomorphic initial
Zoomorphic initial

f. 48v
Zoomorphic initial
 
Zoomorphic initial

f. 48v
Zoomorphic initial
Marginal drawing

f. 61v
Marginal drawing
Marginal drawings

f. 63v
Marginal drawings
 
* (see the detailed record for 2 further images)
 
 
Additional 47967   f. 1-1v
England; 2nd half of the 10th century

Additional 61735
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
England; c. 1007-1025

Arundel 11
John Whethamstede and others, Historical and theological miscellany, including excerpts from the Granarium, part II, and a commentary on Sacrobosco's De sphaera (ff. 183-198)
England; between 1440 and 1447 or after 1465
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Illuminated border and initial

f. 9
Illuminated border and initial
Detail

f. 9
Detail
Decorated initial

f. 183
Decorated initial
 
Detail

f. 183
Detail

Arundel 13
Marco Polo, Conditionibus et consuetudinibus orientalium regionum
England; 1st half of the 14th century
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Decorated initial and border

f. 1
Decorated initial and border
Detail: Decorated initial and border

f. 1
Detail: Decorated initial and border
Decorated initial and border

f. 28
Decorated initial and border
 
Detail: Decorated initial and border

f. 28
Detail: Decorated initial and border
Marginal hybrid

f. 30v
Marginal hybrid

Arundel 14   ff. 1-32
Gerald of Wales , Topography of Ireland and other works
England; last quarter of the 12th century; after 1186
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Decorated initials

f. 2
Decorated initials
Decorated initial

f. 2
Decorated initial
Decorated initials

f. 2
Decorated initials
 
Decorated initials

f. 9
Decorated initials
Decorated initial

f. 9
Decorated initial
Decorated initial and map

f. 27v
Decorated initial and map
 
 
Arundel 14   ff. 33-37
6 notated polyphonic Kyrie eleison for three voices (ff. 33-35v) and non-notated verse ‘Virgo dei genitrix’, part of a Gloria and Alleluia verse ‘Post partum virgo’ (ff. 36-37v).
England; 1st quarter of the 14th century

Arundel 15
Robert Grosseteste (translator), and others, Quadrilogus's Vita et passio beati Thomae [Becket] (ff. 1-72); Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum (ff. 73-97v)
England; 2nd, 3rd or last quarter of the 13th century
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Flourished initial

f. 1
Flourished initial

Arundel 16
Osbern, Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan
England, S. E. (Canterbury); last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century
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Angel

f. 1
Angel
Detail

f. 1
Detail
Osberanus

f. 2
Osberanus
 
Scribe

f. 2
Scribe
Inscription

f. 2
Inscription
Decorated initial

f. 30v
Decorated initial
 
Decorated initial

f. 30v
Decorated initial

Arundel 18
Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome, Sigbert of Gembloux, De viris illustribus, extract; Chronographia, with prologue; Jerome's preface to the translation of Eusebius
England; 2nd half of the 14th century
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Puzzle initial

f. 13
Puzzle initial
Virgin and Child

f. 58
Virgin and Child

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