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Fragmentarium (Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments) is an online database to collect and collate fragments of medieval manuscripts making them available to researchers, collectors and historians worldwide.
The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the "Old Royal Library" and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call ...
Add MS 29987 is a mediaeval Tuscan musical manuscript dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, held in the British Library in London. It contains a number of polyphonic Italian Trecento madrigals , ballate , sacred mass movements, and motets , and 15 untexted monophonic instrumental dances, which are among the earliest purely ...
The Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, [1] is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century.
Alba-Iulia, Romania, Batthyaneum Library, s.n.; Vatican library, Pal. lat. 50; Cover in London, British Library (Codex Aureus of Lorsch) Cambridge , Corpus Christi College , MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp. 245–316) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho C. V ( Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment )
The manuscript's shelf mark originates from its previous owner, Henry Yates Thompson, who owned an extensive collection of illuminated medieval manuscripts which he sold or donated posthumously to the British Library. [2] The Taymouth Hours is now held by the British Library Department of Manuscripts in the Yates Thompson collection. [2]
The Sherborne Missal (London, British Library, Add MS 74236) is an early 15th-century English illuminated manuscript missal, one of the finest English examples of International Gothic painting. With 347 vellum leaves measuring 535 by 380 millimetres (21.1 in × 15.0 in), it weighs 20 kg. [1]
This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection [1] of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in other libraries and collections.