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An illustration of King Arthur fighting the Saxons, from 'The Rochefoucauld Grail'. The Rochefoucauld Grail is a four-volume 14th-century illuminated manuscript.Three volumes were formerly Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, MS 1; the fourth volume is divided between the Bodleian Library in Oxford (MS. Douce 215) and the John Rylands Library in Manchester (Ms Fr. 1).
The Maastricht Hours is a book of hours that was produced in the vicinity of Liège early in the 14th century and is now among the Stowe manuscripts of the British Library. [1] It is known for its colourful and imaginative miniatures, often on animal themes. [2] It has been fully digitised and is available on the British Library website. [3]
The Pearl manuscript's scribe was not the author of the poems it contains, and indeed the number and nature of its scribal errors and textual anomalies show it to stand at some distance from the original manuscript or manuscripts. At least one line, and possibly several more, have been lost from the original poems, while others seem to have ...
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; Pages in category "14th-century illuminated manuscripts" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. ...
14th-century illuminated manuscripts (68 P) Pages in category "14th-century manuscripts" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
It has a seventeenth-century Italian binding of dark brown sheepskin. The manuscript has outer decorations of blind-tooled fan-shaped motifs pressed into the leather cover with a heated brass tool on the front and back. [2] The Golden Haggadah is a selection of texts to be read on the first night of Passover, dealing with the Exodus of the ...
At least twenty manuscripts from the fourteenth century have survived that reflect the "Queen Mary style". [4] The contents indicate that it was probably made for a woman. Comparisons to psalters that focus on women and were known to have been owned by women (such as the Isabella Psalter , the Munich Psalter , and the Imola Psalter ) are drawn.
The Tree of Jesse initial, bordered by the royal arms of England and France (fol. 8r).. The Gorleston Psalter (British Library Add MS 49622) is a 14th-century manuscript notable for containing early music instruction and for its humorous marginalia.