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Arma Christi prayer roll
Manuscript, Scroll, Vellum roll Created date: 2nd quarter of the fifteenth centuryOne of ten surviving late-medieval rolls containing the Middle English prayer-poem ‘O Vernicle’. The prayer-poem ‘O V...
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Astrological-medical miscellany
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th centuryA circular diagram, now known as ‘Microcosmic Man’ or ‘Zodiac man’, appears in this miscellany of astrological and medic...
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Beaufort Book of Hours
Manuscript Created date: c. 1411–1415 and c.1425–1443The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume of parts made at different times. It evolved into its present form du...
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Carthusian miscellany
Manuscript Created date: 1460–1500The religious order of monks and nuns known as the Carthusians were founded by St Bruno of Cologne (d. 1104) in 1084. Th...
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Dunois Hours
Manuscript Created date: c. 1439–1450A highly decorated French Book of Hours, commissioned by Jean d’Orléans (d. 1471), Count of Dunois. Among the bo...
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Great Bible
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th centuryWith pages measuring over half a metre (two feet) tall, this volume is the largest manuscript Bible within the British L...
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Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Manuscript Created date: 1411–20The Regiment of Princes was the most popular work of the English poet Thomas Hoccleve (d. 1426). Hoccleve wrote the poem...
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