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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 36

Author Dante Alighieri
Title Divina Commedia
Origin Italy, N. (Tuscany, Siena?)
Date between 1444 and c. 1450
Language Italian
Script Gothic
Artists Inferno and Purgatorio (ff. 1-128), and all historiated initials illuminated by Priamo della Quercia between 1442 and 1450 (previously attributed to Lorenzo Vecchietta, see Pope-Hennessy 1947); Paradiso (ff. 129-190v) illuminated by Giovanni di Paolo c. 1450.
Decoration 110 large miniatures in the lower margin, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7v, 8v, 9, 10, 11, 12v, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21v, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30v, 32, 34, 35v, 37v, 39v, 42, 44, 46, 47v, 49, 51, 53, 55, 56v, 59, 61, 62v, 68, 76v, 84, 88, 93v, 98v, 100, 107, 113v, 116v, 119, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190). 3 large historiated initials, developing partial foliate borders, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso (ff. 1, 65, 129). Large decorated initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold. Small initials in gold on pink, blue, and/or green grounds.
Dimensions in mm 365 x 258 (215 x 80)
Official foliation ff. 190 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 original flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 paper flyleaves at the end)
Collation i-xix8 (ff. 1-152), xx6 (ff. 153-158), xxi-xxiv8 (ff. 159-190).
Form Parchment codex
Binding Post-1600. Tooled brown leather; gilt edges.
Provenance Alfonso V, king of Aragon, Naples and Sicily (reigned 1416 to 1458): his arms (f. 1).
Ferdinand (Fernando de Aragón), Duke of Calabria (b. 1488, d. 1550): his donation to the convent of San Miguel, Valencia in 1538.
The monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes, Valencia, 1613: inscribed 'Ex commissione dominorum Inquisitorum Valentie vidi et expurgavi secundum expurgatorium novum Madriti 1612. et subscripsi die. 14. Septembris 1613. ego frater Antonius Oller' (f. 190v).
Bought by Henry Yates Thompson from Señor Luis Mayans, Madrid, May 1901.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] CV / £blee.e.e [i.e. £1900.0.0] / [bought from] Harris / Madrid / May 29 / 1901' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Yates Thompson.
Notes Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly based on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, which was under construction at that time.
Select bibliography Bernhard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2nd edn (New York : Putnam's Sons, 1909), p. 177.

A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts (Nos. XCV to CVII and 79A) Completing the Hundred in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1912), no. CV, pp. 66-74.

John Pope-Hennessy, A Sienese Codex of the Divine Comedy (London, 1947).

T. de Marinis, La Biblioteca Napoletana Dei Re D'Aragona (Milan, 1947-52), I, p.41; II, pp. 62-63.

Francis Wormald, 'The Yates Thompson Manuscripts', British Museum Quarterly, 16 (1952), 4-6 (p. 6).

[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), pl. 38.

[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), p. 54.

Peter Brieger, Millard Meiss and Charles S. Singleton, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, 2 vols (Princeton: University Press, 1969), I, 269-76; II, figs. throughout.

J. J. G. Alexander, Italian Renaissance Illuminations (London: Chatto & Windus, 1977), pp. 50, 52, pls. 6-7.

Giulietta Chelazzi Dini, 'Lorenzo Vecchietta, Priamo della Quercia, Nicola da Siena: nuove osservazioni sulla Divina Commedia Yates Thompson 36', in Jacopo della Quercia fra Gotico e Rinascimento: Atti del convegno di studi, Siena, Facoltà di Lettre e Filosofia, 2-5 ottobre 1975, ed. by Giulietta Chelazzi (Florence: Centro di Firenze, 1977), pp. 203-28.

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pp. 65, 66, pl. 55.

T.S. Pattie, Astrology as Illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum (London: British Library, 1980), pl. 9.

Jennifer O'Reilly, Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and the Vices in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 1988, print of an unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham, 1972), pl. 37.

John Pope-Hennessy, Paradiso: The Illuminations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Giovanni di Paolo (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993).

Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: Phaidon, 1994), pp. 154, 155, pl. 133.

The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander (London: Prestel, 1994), p. 22.

Peter Whitfield, The Mapping of the Heavens (London: British Library, 1995), pls on pp. 51, 52.

Michael Camille, The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire (London: Laurence King, 1998), p. 44, pl. 33.

The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), p. 92 no. 21 [exhibition catalogue].

Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), p. 244.

Benjamin David, 'Sites of Confluence: The Master of the Yates Thompson Divine Comedy', in Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander. The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art and Architecture, ed. by Susan L'Engle and Gerald B. Guest (London and Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 21-32.

La Divina Commedia di Alfonso D'Aragona re di Napoli: Manoscritto Yates Thompson 36, ed. by Milvia Bollati, 2 vols (Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2006), [Colour facsimile of the miniatures as volume 2].

Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 57.

Jennifer Sliwka, Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece (London: National Gallery Company, 2015) [exhibition catalogue].

Bette Talvacchia, 'Paradise emblazoned and embodied in Giovanni di Paolo's illumination of Dante's Commedia', in Medieval Charm: Illuminated Mauscripts for Royal, Aristocratic and Ecclesiastical Patronage, ed. By Florence Brazes-Moly and Francesca Marini (Pollestres: TDO Editions, 2016), pp. 160-89.

Vincenzo Vitale, 'L'impero di Alfonso il Magnanimo nella Commedia Aragonese', in M. Ciccuto and L. Livragi (eds.), Dante visualizzato. Carte ridenti II (Florence: Cesati, 2019) pp. 91-118.


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Dante and Virgil

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Arms

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Dante

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Judgement of Minos

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Virgil, Dante, Paolo and Francesca

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Dante and Virgil

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The wood of the suicide

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Prophecy of Bunetti Latini

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Dante and Virgil

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Virgil, Dante, and Geryon

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Seducers and Flatterers

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Torment of the Simoniacs

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Punishment of the Diviners

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Torments of the Barterers

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Hypocrites

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The Evil Counsellors

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Guido di Montefeltro

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Sowers of Discord

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Coiners and Counterfeiters

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Simon of Troy and Adamo of Brescia

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Simon of Troy and Adamo of Brescia
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Simon of Troy and Adamo of Brescia
 
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The Three Giants

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The Three Giants
 
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The Three Giants
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Traitors to Kindred

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Traitors to Kindred
 
Traitors to Kindred

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Traitors to Kindred
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Death of Ugolino della Gheradesca

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Death of Ugolino della Gheradesca
Death of Ugolino della Gheradesca

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Death of Ugolino della Gheradesca
 
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Dante and Virgil

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Dante and Virgil
 
Dante and Virgil

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Dante and Virgil
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Dante

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Dante
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Dante

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Dante
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Dante
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Dante, Virgil and Sordello

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Dante, Virgil and Sordello
Dante, Virgil and Sordello

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Dante, Virgil and Sordello
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Gates of Purgatory

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Gates of Purgatory
Gates of Purgatory

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Gates of Purgatory
 
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The Envious

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The Envious
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The Envious
 
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The Wrathful

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The Wrathful
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The Wrathful
 
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The Slothful and the Siren

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The Slothful and the Siren
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The Slothful and the Siren
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Purgatory

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The Gluttons
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The Lustful

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The Lustful
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The Lustful
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Earthly Paradise

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Earthly Paradise
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Earthly Paradise
 
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The Procession
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f. 122v
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Illuminated initials

f. 123
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 123v
Illuminated initials
 
Illuminated initials

f. 124
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 124v
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 125
Illuminated initials
 
Illuminated initials

f. 125v
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 126
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 126v
Illuminated initials
 
Illuminated initials

f. 127
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 127v
Illuminated initials
Illuminated initials

f. 128
Illuminated initials
 
Illuminated initials

f. 128v
Illuminated initials
Christ in a chariot

f. 129
Christ in a chariot
Parnassus

f. 129
Parnassus
 
Christ in a chariot

f. 129
Christ in a chariot
Illuminated initials

f. 129v
Illuminated initials
Heaven and Earth

f. 130
Heaven and Earth
 
Heaven and Earth

f. 130
Heaven and Earth
Illuminated initials

f. 130v
Illuminated initials
Heaven of the Moon

f. 131
Heaven of the Moon
 
Heaven of the Moon

f. 131
Heaven of the Moon
Illuminated initials

f. 131v
Illuminated initials
Beatrice

f. 132
Beatrice
 
Beatrice

f. 132
Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 132v
Illuminated initials
Dante

f. 133
Dante
 
Dante

f. 133
Dante
Illuminated initials

f. 133v
Illuminated initials
Piccarda and Constance

f. 134
Piccarda and Constance
 
Piccarda and Constance

f. 134
Piccarda and Constance
Illuminated initials

f. 134v
Illuminated initials
Nebuchadnezzar

f. 135
Nebuchadnezzar
 
Nebuchadnezzar

f. 135
Nebuchadnezzar
Illuminated initials

f. 135v
Illuminated initials
Beatrice

f. 136
Beatrice
 
Beatrice

f. 136
Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 136v
Illuminated initials
Four episodes

f. 137
Four episodes
 
Four episodes

f. 137
Four episodes
Illuminated initials

f. 137v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Beatrice

f. 138
Dante and Beatrice
 
Dante and Beatrice

f. 138
Dante and Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 138v
Illuminated initials
Justinian

f. 139
Justinian
 
Justinian

f. 139
Justinian
Illuminated initials

f. 139v
Illuminated initials
Daughters of Count Berengar

f. 140
Daughters of Count Berengar
 
Daughters of Count Berengar

f. 140
Daughters of Count Berengar
Illuminated initials

f. 140v
Illuminated initials
Mystery of the Redemption

f. 141
Mystery of the Redemption
 
Mystery of the Redemption

f. 141
Mystery of the Redemption
Illuminated initials

f. 141v
Illuminated initials
Heaven of Venus

f. 142
Heaven of Venus
 
Heaven of Venus

f. 142
Heaven of Venus
Illuminated initials

f. 142v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Beatrice

f. 143
Dante and Beatrice
 
Dante and Beatrice

f. 143
Dante and Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 143v
Illuminated initials
Cunizza da Romano

f. 144
Cunizza da Romano
 
Cunizza da Romano

f. 144
Cunizza da Romano
Illuminated initials

f. 144v
Illuminated initials
Folco

f. 145
Folco
 
Folco

f. 145
Folco
Illuminated initials

f. 145v
Illuminated initials
Heaven of the Sun

f. 146
Heaven of the Sun
 
Heaven of the Sun

f. 146
Heaven of the Sun
Illuminated initials

f. 146v
Illuminated initials
The Sphere of the Sun

f. 147
The Sphere of the Sun
 
The Sphere of the Sun

f. 147
The Sphere of the Sun
Illuminated initials

f. 147v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Beatrice

f. 148
Dante and Beatrice
 
Dante and Beatrice

f. 148
Dante and Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 148v
Illuminated initials
Renunciation of Francis

f. 149
Renunciation of Francis
 
Renunciation of Francis

f. 149
Renunciation of Francis
Illuminated initials

f. 149v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Beatrice

f. 150
Dante and Beatrice
 
Dante and Beatrice

f. 150
Dante and Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 150v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Beatrice

f. 151
Dante and Beatrice
 
Dante and Beatrice

f. 151
Dante and Beatrice
Illuminated initials

f. 151v
Illuminated initials
Theseus and Ariadne

f. 152
Theseus and Ariadne
 
Theseus and Ariadne

f. 152
Theseus and Ariadne
Illuminated initials

f. 152v
Illuminated initials
Adam, Christ, and Solomon

f. 153
Adam, Christ, and Solomon
 
Adam, Christ, and Solomon

f. 153
Adam, Christ, and Solomon
Illuminated initials

f. 153v
Illuminated initials
Resurrection of the dead

f. 154
Resurrection of the dead
 
Resurrection of the dead

f. 154
Resurrection of the dead
Illuminated initials

f. 154v
Illuminated initials
Aeneas and Anchises

f. 155
Aeneas and Anchises
 
Aeneas and Anchises

f. 155
Aeneas and Anchises
Illuminated initials

f. 155v
Illuminated initials
Death of Cacciaguida

f. 156
Death of Cacciaguida
 
Death of Cacciaguida

f. 156
Death of Cacciaguida
Florentine towns

f. 157
Florentine towns
Florentine towns

f. 157
Florentine towns
 
Illuminated initials

f. 157v
Illuminated initials
Legend of Hippolytus

f. 158
Legend of Hippolytus
Legend of Hippolytus

f. 158
Legend of Hippolytus
 
Illuminated initials

f. 158v
Illuminated initials
Dante

f. 159
Dante
Dante

f. 159
Dante
 
Illuminated initials

f. 159v
Illuminated initials
The Heaven of Mars

f. 160
The Heaven of Mars
The Heaven of Mars

f. 160
The Heaven of Mars
 
Illuminated initials

f. 160v
Illuminated initials
The Heaven of Jupiter

f. 161
The Heaven of Jupiter
The Heaven of Jupiter

f. 161
The Heaven of Jupiter
 
Illuminated initials

f. 161v
Illuminated initials
The eagle of Justice

f. 162
The eagle of Justice
The eagle of Justice

f. 162
The eagle of Justice
 
Illuminated initials

f. 162v
Illuminated initials
Ten wicked kings

f. 163
Ten wicked kings
Ten wicked kings

f. 163
Ten wicked kings
 
Illuminated initials

f. 163v
Illuminated initials
Five Just Princes

f. 164
Five Just Princes
Five Just Princes

f. 164
Five Just Princes
 
Illuminated initials

f. 164v
Illuminated initials
Heaven of Saturn

f. 165
Heaven of Saturn
Heaven of Saturn

f. 165
Heaven of Saturn
 
Illuminated initials

f. 165v
Illuminated initials
Four kings

f. 166
Four kings
Four kings

f. 166
Four kings
 
Illuminated initials

f. 166v
Illuminated initials
Peter Damian

f. 167
Peter Damian
Peter Damian

f. 167
Peter Damian
 
Illuminated initials

f. 167v
Illuminated initials
Benedict

f. 168
Benedict
Benedict

f. 168
Benedict
 
Illuminated initials

f. 168v
Illuminated initials
Seven Spheres

f. 169
Seven Spheres
Seven Spheres

f. 169
Seven Spheres
 
Illuminated initials

f. 169v
Illuminated initials
The Triumph of Christ

f. 170
The Triumph of Christ
The Triumph of Christ

f. 170
The Triumph of Christ
 
Illuminated initials

f. 170v
Illuminated initials
Christ with saints and angels

f. 171
Christ with saints and angels
Christ with saints and angels

f. 171
Christ with saints and angels
 
Illuminated initials

f. 171v
Illuminated initials
Peter

f. 172
Peter
Peter

f. 172
Peter
 
Illuminated initials

f. 172v
Illuminated initials
Dante before Peter

f. 173
Dante before Peter
Dante before Peter

f. 173
Dante before Peter
 
Illuminated initials

f. 173v
Illuminated initials
James and John

f. 174
James and John
James and John

f. 174
James and John
 
Illuminated initials

f. 174v
Illuminated initials
John the Evangelist

f. 175
John the Evangelist
John the Evangelist

f. 175
John the Evangelist
 
Illuminated initials

f. 175v
Illuminated initials
Dante and Adam

f. 176
Dante and Adam
Dante and Adam

f. 176
Dante and Adam
 
Illuminated initials

f. 176v
Illuminated initials
Peter and the Holy Trinity

f. 177
Peter and the Holy Trinity
Peter

f. 177
Peter
 
Illuminated initials

f. 177v
Illuminated initials
Christ the Redeemer

f. 178
Christ the Redeemer
Christ the Redeemer

f. 178
Christ the Redeemer
 
Illuminated initials

f. 178v
Illuminated initials
The Light

f. 179
The Light
The Light

f. 179
The Light
 
Illuminated initials

f. 179v
Illuminated initials
The Orders of Angels

f. 180
The Orders of Angels
The Orders of Angels

f. 180
The Orders of Angels
 
Illuminated initials

f. 180v
Illuminated initials
Fall of the Rebel Angels

f. 181
Fall of the Rebel Angels
Fall of the Rebel Angels

f. 181
Fall of the Rebel Angels
 
Illuminated initials

f. 181v
Illuminated initials
Hypocritical priest

f. 182
Hypocritical priest
Hypocritical priest

f. 182
Hypocritical priest
 
Illuminated initials

f. 182v
Illuminated initials
River of Light

f. 183
River of Light
River of Light

f. 183
River of Light
 
Illuminated initials

f. 183v
Illuminated initials
The Empyrean

f. 184
The Empyrean
The Empyrean

f. 184
The Empyrean
 
Illuminated initials

f. 184v
Illuminated initials
The Celestial Rose

f. 185
The Celestial Rose
The Celestial Rose

f. 185
The Celestial Rose
 
Illuminated initials

f. 185v
Illuminated initials
Virgin and Child and Bernard

f. 186
Virgin and Child and Bernard
Virgin and Child and Bernard

f. 186
Virgin and Child and Bernard
 
Illuminated initials

f. 186v
Illuminated initials
Virgin and Child

f. 187
Virgin and Child
Virgin and Child

f. 187
Virgin and Child
 
Illuminated initials

f. 187v
Illuminated initials
Annunciation

f. 188
Annunciation
Annunciation

f. 188
Annunciation
 
Illuminated initials

f. 188v
Illuminated initials
Virgin and Child and Bernard

f. 189
Virgin and Child and Bernard
Illuminated initial

f. 189
Illuminated initial
 
Virgin and Child and Bernard

f. 189
Virgin and Child and Bernard
Illuminated initials

f. 189v
Illuminated initials
Dante's vision of the Virgin

f. 190
Dante's vision of the Virgin
 
Dante's vision of the Virgin

f. 190
Dante's vision of the Virgin
Illuminated initials

f. 190v
Illuminated initials

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