née Cecily Neville], duchess ofYork (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband RichardofYork, 3rd duke ofYork (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes the Yorkists badges of the white rose
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 52a); New York, The
Initials 'L'(iber) and 'D'(eus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 4 ofRichardof St-Victor's In apocalypsim. 1 large initial in blue, with reserved designs, with foliate penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 1). Smaller initials mostly
Decorated Initials 'L'(iber) and 'D'(eus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 4 ofRichardof St-Victor's In apocalypsim. 1 large initial in blue, with reserved designs, with foliate penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 1). Smaller initials
on a ground of red dots, and decorated letters in a calligraphic copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V at the beginning of Mark, and on the lower part of the page, an alphabetical 'sampler' of the letter forms
of the XIVth cent. Much injured by the application of an extract of galls to bring out the writing. On f. 22 b is an acknowledgment of a debt from Robert Barkynburyo, of Langton, to Richard Enggersoun, ofYork,
friar minor, "frere Johan of Querayum," a Cistercian, "daun Franke, chauntour of the abbay of Viliers [Villers, dioe. Liège]," and a doctor of divinity, "maister Godfrey of Fountaynes." The last is possibly Godefroi de Fontaines, chancellor of Paris in 1280.
of ch. xxv, beg. of ch. xxviii, ends of chs. xxxi, xxxv (with rubric to xxxvi), xxxvi (with rubric to xxxvii), beg. of ch. xli, whole of ch. xliii, end of ch. xlv. f. 7 b: (5) (5) Account
Description MIRROR of the Life of Christ: translated from the Speculum vite Christi of St. Bonaventura by Nicholas Love, prior of the Carthusian monastery of Mount Grace, co. York. The preface is headed, "Here bigynneþ þe prohemie of þe book
a Latin elegiac poem in praise of Henry VII. and in celebration of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1486, by Peter Carmelianus of Brescia, afterwards Chaplain and Latin Secretary to the King, Archdeacon of Gloucester, etc. (Gr. x.) Vellum;