• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

patron. This volume is the first of a three or four-volume set. The second volume, containing the Pauline Epistles is 1 E V, vol. 2, and the third volume, containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, is Cambridge, Cambridge University

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

patron. This volume is the first of a three or four-volume set. The second volume, containing the Pauline Epistles is 1 E V, vol. 2, and the third volume, containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, is Cambridge, Cambridge University

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

patron. This volume is the first of a three or four-volume set. The second volume, containing the Pauline Epistles is 1 E V, vol. 2, and the third volume, containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, is Cambridge, Cambridge University

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

patron. This volume is the first of a three or four-volume set. The second volume, containing the Pauline Epistles is 1 E V, vol. 2, and the third volume, containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, is Cambridge, Cambridge University

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a Tree of Jesse, and historiated border with nine roundels with scenes from Genesis: Creation of the World; Creation of Adam and Eve; the Tree of Knowledge; Expulsion from the Garden;Toiling the earth; Cain and Abel; Building the Ark; the Great Flood; the Drunkenness of Noah; three busts appear in quatrefoil at the top of the border; animals, birds, laborers, and fantastic creatures inhabit the borders and margins; at the bottom border, a woman and a man in the arms of the St Omer family kneel in reverence, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

in the arms of the St Omer family kneel in reverence, at the beginning of Psalm 1. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39810. 1 large historiated initial, accompanied by a full historiated foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 7).

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a Tree of Jesse, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a Tree of Jesse, at the beginning of Psalm 1. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39810. 1 large historiated initial, accompanied by a full historiated foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 7).

• Detail of border illuminations containing scenes from Genesis, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

Detail of border illuminations containing scenes from Genesis, at the beginning of Psalm 1. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39810. 1 large historiated initial, accompanied by a full historiated foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 7). 5 smaller historiated

• Courtly scene, with noblemen and ladies around a fountain, a building with a well and trees, foliage, flowers and a stream in the margins., A leaf from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

inv. 2065. Another section was sold as part of 'Eine Wiener Sammlung', Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a courtly scene in colours and gold. On the reverse a full-page decorated border, containing roundels with

• A full-page border of ivy leaves and ~bas-de-page~ roundels with a grasshopper, cranefly, beetle, and moth., A leaf from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

inv. 2065. Another section was sold as part of 'Eine Wiener Sammlung', Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a courtly scene in colours and gold. On the reverse a full-page decorated border, containing roundels with

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration., Sabaitic typicon, imperfect, including a fragment of the 'Vision of Constantine' (ff. 1-1v)

Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration. The manuscript includes liturgical instructions and chants for Sundays. It is imperfect at the end.The leaf containing the fragment of the 'Vision of Constantine' comes from a larger manuscript and is bound at

• Decorated initial 'P'(er)., Cathemerinon (index The Daily Round)

Decorated initial 'P'(er). A fragment of the spine from a previous binding of gold-tooled brown leather is pasted inside the front cover. Initials in various colours with foliate decoration, some large, some mid-size. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing

• Decorated initial 'H'(eri) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the sermon of Fulgentius for the feast of Stephen, at the beginning fo the Sanctorale., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Decorated initial 'H'(eri) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the sermon of Fulgentius for the feast of Stephen, at the beginning fo the Sanctorale. The Psalms are in two columns.Includes a Calendar (ff. 1-6v); Abbreviated Psalms, Canticles, and

• Detail of an illuminated initial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Detail of an illuminated initial. The Psalms are in two columns.Includes a Calendar (ff. 1-6v); Abbreviated Psalms, Canticles, and Litany (ff. 7-32); Abbreviated Missal (ff. 32v-42); Breviary Temporale (ff. 43-200) and Sanctorale (ff. 200-335); a table of readings (f.

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ixi)., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Illuminated initial 'D'(ixi). The Psalms are in two columns.Includes a Calendar (ff. 1-6v); Abbreviated Psalms, Canticles, and Litany (ff. 7-32); Abbreviated Missal (ff. 32v-42); Breviary Temporale (ff. 43-200) and Sanctorale (ff. 200-335); a table of readings (f. 335), a

• Illuminated intial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Illuminated intial. The Psalms are in two columns.Includes a Calendar (ff. 1-6v); Abbreviated Psalms, Canticles, and Litany (ff. 7-32); Abbreviated Missal (ff. 32v-42); Breviary Temporale (ff. 43-200) and Sanctorale (ff. 200-335); a table of readings (f. 335), a hymn

• Decorated initials., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Decorated initials. The Psalms are in two columns.Includes a Calendar (ff. 1-6v); Abbreviated Psalms, Canticles, and Litany (ff. 7-32); Abbreviated Missal (ff. 32v-42); Breviary Temporale (ff. 43-200) and Sanctorale (ff. 200-335); a table of readings (f. 335), a hymn

• Bas-de-page scene of a mounted king hunting a fleeing stag; he raises a horn to his lips., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Bas-de-page scene of a mounted king, hawking, coming upon two stags feeding., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a mounted king, hawking, coming upon two stags feeding., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Bas-de-page scene of a mounted king, shooting at a stag with a bow and arrow., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix