Collection items

Arma Christi prayer roll

Manuscript, Scroll, Vellum roll Created date: 2nd quarter of the fifteenth century

One of ten surviving late-medieval rolls containing the Middle English prayer-poem ‘O Vernicle’. The prayer-poem ‘O V...

Astrological-medical miscellany

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

A circular diagram, now known as ‘Microcosmic Man’ or ‘Zodiac man’, appears in this miscellany of astrological and medic...

Beaufort Book of Hours

Manuscript Created date: c. 1411–1415 and c.1425–1443

The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume of parts made at different times. It evolved into its present form du...

Carthusian miscellany

Manuscript Created date: 1460–1500

The religious order of monks and nuns known as the Carthusians were founded by St Bruno of Cologne (d. 1104) in 1084. Th...

Dunois Hours

Manuscript Created date: c. 1439–1450

A highly decorated French Book of Hours, commissioned by Jean d’Orléans (d. 1471), Count of Dunois. Among the bo...

Great Bible

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

With pages measuring over half a metre (two feet) tall, this volume is the largest manuscript Bible within the British L...

Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes

Manuscript Created date: 1411–20

The Regiment of Princes was the most popular work of the English poet Thomas Hoccleve (d. 1426). Hoccleve wrote the poem...