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Detailed record for Additional 27210
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-101 |
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| Title |
Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'') |
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| Origin |
Spain, N. E., Catalonia (Barcelona?) |
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| Date |
2nd quarter of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Hebrew |
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| Script |
Sephardi square script, punctuated |
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| Decoration |
14 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 2v-15), 2 textual illustrations (ff. 44v, 45v), 26 marginal illustrations (ff. 16v, 22v, 23, 26v, 27, 28, 32v, 42, 42v, 43, 43v, 46, 47, 50, 55, 56v, 61, 62, 66, 66v, 67, 67v, 68, 78v, 83, 85). Embellished vertical band between the two text columns (ff. 22v, 23, 55, 56, 61, 66v, 67, 67v, 68, 68v, 70v, 73, 78v, 78v, 85). 36 initial-word panels in gold, many with foliate decoration in colours (ff. 16v, 22v, 24v, 26v, 27, 30v, 31v, 32v, 33v, 41v, 44v, 47, 50, 51, 53, 55v, 56v, 57v, 59v, 61, 65v, 66, 66v, 67, 67v, 68, 68v, 70v, 73, 73v, 78v, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87). 5 initial-words with zoomorphic letters (ff. 31v, 34v, 36v, 38, 40v). Numerous initial words in gold and, silver and in colours. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
245 x 190/195 (155/165 x 130) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 2-16 and 24 |
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| Title |
Haggadah (the 'Golden Haggadah'') |
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| Origin |
Italy |
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| Date |
Beginning of the 17th century |
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| Language |
Hebrew |
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| Script |
Sephardic square script, unpunctuated |
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| Decoration |
Seventeenth-century decorations: one decorated title page (f. 2), one heraldic deivce (f. 16), 13 full borders decorated with leaves on the reverse side of the full-page miniatures framing a mnemonic poem on the laws of Passover and (ff. 3v-15v), one full border decorated with leaves (f. 24). All the seventeenth-century decorations were painted on blank pages of the fourteenth-century codex. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
245 x 200 (175 x 150) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 101 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. 1 is a paper flyleaf |
| Collation |
13 quires: i10-1 (ff. 2-10), ii6-1 (ff. 11-15), iii-xii8 (ff. 16-95), xiii6 (ff. 96-101). No catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather Morocco binding, blind tooled, remains of clasps. |
| Provenance |
Fra Luigi da Bologna: censor's signature, Bologna, February, 1599 (f. 101v); William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117.
Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem Rava in 1602: inscribed on his added title page (f. 2).
The armorial device of the Gallico and Rava families, added at Carpi in 1602 (f. 16).
Camillo Jaghel: censor's signature, 1613 (f. 101v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.
Renato da Modena: censor's signature, 1626 (f. 101v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 132-133.
Azariah Zedekiah Hayyim Ashkenazi: birth entry on 22 January 1689 (f. 1).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 328; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 [1997], 131-53). |
| Notes |
The codex is called Golden Haggadah because of the diapered gold-leaf background of its miniatures.
Ruling is visible. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.
Erased text (e. g., ff. 81, 83, 86, 86v, 87, 90v, 94v, 95, 97). |
| Select bibliography |
Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 39 (in the Hebrew part).
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), II, no. 607.
Pedro Bohigas, La Ilustración y la Decoratión del Libro Manuscrito en Cataluña: Período Gótico y Renacimiento, 2 vols (Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona, 1965-1967), I, 68-70, figs. 25, 26.
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 56.
Bezalel Narkiss, The Golden Haggadah: A Fourteenth-century Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1970) [facsimile].
Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), pp. 60-63.
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 11; II, figs 123-54.
The´re`se and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987).
Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Die Modelle des Exoduszyklus der Goldenen Haggada (London, British Library, Add. 27210)', in Judentum - Ausblicke und Einsichten: Festgabe für Kurt Schubert, ed. by Clemens Thoma, Günter Stemberger, and Johann Maier (Frankfurt: P. Lang, 1993), 269-99.
Bezalel Narkiss, The Golden Haggadah (London: British Library, 1997) [partial facsimile].
Marc Michael Epstein, Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), pp. 16-17,
Katrin Kogman-Appel, ‘The Sephardic Picture Cycles and the Rabbinic Tradition: Continuity and Innovation in Jewish Iconography’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 60 (1997), 451-82.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, ‘Coping with Christian Pictorial Sources: What Did Jewish Miniaturists Not Paint?’ Speculum, 75 (2000), 816-58.
Marc Michael Epstein, 'Another Flight into Egypt: Confluence, Coincidence, the Cross-cultural Dialectics of Messianism and Iconographic Appropriation in Medieval Jewish and Christian Culture.', in Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other; Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, ed. by Eva Frojmovic (Leiden: Brill, 2002 ), 33-52.
Julie Harris, 'Polemical Images in the Golden Haggadah (British Library Add. MS 27210)', Medieval Encounters, 8 (2002), 105-22.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), pp. 179-85.
Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Jerusalem and the Temple in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts: Jewish Thought and Christian Influence', in L'interculturalita dell'ebraismo a cura di Mauro Perani (Ravenna: Longo, 2004), pp. 173-91.
Julie A. Harris, 'Good Jews, Bad Jews, and No Jews at All: Ritual Imagery and Social Standards in the Catalan Haggadot', in Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams, ed. by Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 26 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 275-96 (p. 279, fig. 6).
Isabel Escandell Proust, 'Entre líneas y sombras: libros y miniaturas en Cataluña (1250-1336)', in La miniatura medieval en la Península Ibérica, ed. by Joaquín Yarza Luaces (Murcia: Nausícaä, 2007), p. 135-36, fig. 8.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain. Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), pp. 47-88.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 94-97.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 172 [exhibition catalogue].
Online Gallery: Turn the Pages (The British Library):
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/hagadah/accessible/introduction.html (accessed 4 November, 2010).
Vivian B. Mann, 'Jews and Altarpeices in Medieval Spain', in Uneasy communion: Jews, Christians, and the altarpieces of medieval Spain, ed. by Vivian B. Mann London: Giles, 2010), pp. 112-15.
Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah. Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 129-200.
Zsofia Buda, 'Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art', in In Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation (CEU Medievalia), ed. By Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 117-34. |
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Part 1
ff. 1-101 |
| Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'') |
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Spine
Spine of the manuscript |
Front binding
Front binding |
Back binding
Back binding and spine |
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Front binding
Front binding |
Inside front cover
Inside front cover |
Edge
Front edge of the manuscript |
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Inside back cover
Inside back cover |
Back binding
Back binding |
f. 1
Handwritten note |
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f. 1v
Blank folio |
f. 2
Decorated title page |
f. 2v
Scenes from Genesis |
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f. 2v
Creation of Eve |
f. 2v
Adam |
f. 2v
Noah |
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f. 2v
Cain and Abel |
f. 3
The drunken Noah |
f. 3
Hospitality of Abraham |
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f. 3
Abraham in the fiery furnace |
f. 3
Babel |
f. 3
Scenes from Genesis |
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f. 3v
Full border |
f. 4
Full border |
ff. 4v-5
Scenes from Genesis |
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f. 4v
Sacrifice of Isaac |
f. 4v
Lot and his daughters |
f. 4v
Jacob's ladder |
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f. 4v
Jacob and Esau |
f. 4v
Scenes from Genesis |
f. 5
Joseph's dream |
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f. 5
Jacob wrestling with an angel |
f. 5
Joseph meeting an angel |
f. 5
Joseph relating his dream |
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f. 5
Scenes from Genesis |
f. 5v
Full border |
f. 6
Full border |
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f. 6v
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
f. 6v
Joseph |
f. 6v
Joseph |
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f. 6v
Joseph |
f. 6v
Joseph |
f. 7
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
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f. 7
Joseph |
f. 7
Pharoah's dream |
f. 7
Joseph |
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f. 7
Joseph |
f. 7v
Full border |
f. 8
Full border |
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f. 8v
Scenes from the life of Jacob |
f. 8v
Jacob |
f. 8v
Jacob |
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f. 8v
Pharoah |
f. 8v
Jacob |
f. 9
Scenes from the life of Moses |
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f. 9
Moses |
f. 9
Moses |
f. 9
Moses |
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f. 9
Moses |
f. 9v
Full border |
f. 10
Full border |
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f. 10v
Scenes from the life of Moses |
f. 10v
Moses |
f. 10v
Moses |
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f. 10v
Moses |
f. 10v
Moses |
f. 11
Scenes from Exodus |
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f. 11
Scene from Exodus |
f. 11
Scene from Exodus |
f. 11
Scene from Exodus |
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f. 11
Scene from Exodus |
f. 11v
Full border |
f. 12
Full border |
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f. 12v
Plague of lice |
f. 12v
Plague of frogs |
f. 12v
Plague of murrain |
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f. 12v
Plague of wild beasts |
f. 12v
The plagues |
f. 13
The plagues |
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f. 13
The plagues |
f. 13
The plagues |
f. 13
The plagues |
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f. 13
The plagues |
f. 13v
Full border |
f. 14
Full border |
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f. 14v
Scenes from Exodus |
f. 14v
Scene from Exodus |
f. 14v
Scene from Exodus |
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f. 14v
Scene from Exodus |
f. 14v
Scene from Exodus |
f. 15
Dance of Miriam, Preparation for Seder |
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f. 15
Dance of Miriam |
f. 15
Preparation for Seder |
f. 15
Preparation for Seder |
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f. 15
Preparation for Seder |
f. 15v
Full border |
f. 16
Arms |
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f. 16v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 17
Text page |
f. 17v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 18
Text page |
f. 18v
Coloured lettering |
f. 19
Text page |
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f. 19v
Text page |
f. 20
Text page |
f. 20v
Text page |
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f. 21
Text page |
f. 21v
Coloured lettering |
f. 22
Text page |
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f. 22v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 23
Inhabited border |
f. 23v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 24
Full border |
f. 24v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 25
Text page |
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f. 25v
Gold lettering |
f. 26
Text page |
f. 26v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 27
Initial-word panel |
f. 27v
Text page |
f. 28
Initial-word panel |
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f. 28v
Gold lettering |
f. 29
Gold lettering |
f. 29v
Gold lettering |
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f. 30
Gold lettering |
f. 30v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 31
The Simple Son |
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f. 31v
Zoomorphic lettering |
f. 32
Gold lettering |
f. 32v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 33
Gold lettering |
f. 33v
Gold and silver lettering |
f. 34
Gold lettering |
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f. 34v
Zoomorphic lettering |
f. 35
Gold lettering |
f. 35v
Gold and silver lettering |
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f. 36
Gold lettering |
f. 36v
Zoomorphic lettering |
f. 37
Gold lettering |
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f. 37v
Gold and silver lettering |
f. 38
Gold lettering |
f. 38v
Silver lettering |
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f. 39
Gold lettering |
f. 39v
Gold and silver lettering |
f. 40
Gold lettering |
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f. 40v
Gold lettering |
f. 41
Text page |
f. 41v
Gold and coloured lettering |
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f. 42
Dayyenu |
f. 42v
Coloured lettering |
f. 43
Gold lettering |
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f. 43v
Gold and coloured lettering |
f. 44
Text page |
f. 44v
The unleavened bread |
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f. 45
Text page |
f. 45v
Bitter herb |
f. 46
Gold lettering |
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f. 46v
Gold lettering |
f. 47
Initial-word panel |
f. 47v
Gold lettering |
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f. 48
Gold lettering |
f. 48v
Text page |
f. 49
Gold lettering |
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f. 49v
Text page |
f. 50
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 50v
Text page |
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f. 51
Decorated lettering |
f. 51v
Gold lettering |
f. 52
Gold lettering |
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f. 52v
Gold lettering |
f. 53
Gold lettering |
f. 53v
Text page |
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f. 54
Text page |
f. 54v
Gold and silver lettering |
f. 55
Decorated initial words |
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f. 55v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 56
Blank folio |
f. 56v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 57
Coloured lettering |
f. 57v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 58
Text page |
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f. 58v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 59
Coloured lettering |
f. 59v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 60
Coloured lettering |
f. 60v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 61
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 61v
Coloured lettering |
f. 62
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 62v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 63
Coloured lettering |
f. 63v
Coloured lettering |
f. 64
Text page |
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f. 64v
Coloured lettering |
f. 65
Text page |
f. 65v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 66
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 66v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 67
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 67v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 68
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 68v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 69
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 69v
Coloured lettering |
f. 70
Coloured lettering |
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f. 70v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 71
Coloured lettering |
f. 71v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 72
Coloured lettering |
f. 72v
Coloured lettering |
f. 73
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 73v
Coloured lettering |
f. 74
Coloured lettering |
f. 74v
Text page |
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f. 75
Coloured lettering |
f. 75v
Coloured lettering |
f. 76
Text page |
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f. 76v
Coloured lettering |
f. 77
Coloured lettering |
f. 77v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 78
Coloured lettering |
f. 78v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 79
Coloured lettering |
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f. 79v
Coloured lettering |
f. 80
Coloured lettering |
f. 80v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 81
Coloured lettering |
f. 81v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 82
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 82v
Text page |
f. 83
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 83v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 84
Coloured lettering |
f. 84v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 85
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 85v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 86
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 86v
Text page |
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f. 87
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 87v
Text page |
f. 88
Text page |
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f. 88v
Text page |
f. 89
Text page |
f. 89v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 90
Text page |
f. 90v
Coloured lettering |
f. 91
Coloured lettering |
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f. 91v
Text page |
f. 92
Coloured lettering |
f. 92v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 93
Coloured lettering |
f. 93v
Coloured lettering |
f. 94
Coloured lettering |
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f. 94v
Coloured lettering |
f. 95
Coloured lettering |
f. 95v
Coloured lettering |
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f. 96
Coloured lettering |
f. 96v
Coloured lettering |
f. 97
Coloured lettering |
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f. 97v
Coloured lettering |
f. 98
Coloured lettering |
f. 98v
Text page |
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f. 99
Text page |
f. 99v
Coloured lettering |
f. 100
Text page |
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f. 100v
Text page |
f. 101
Text page |
f. 101v
Censors' signatures |
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