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Additional 9381
Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)
France, N.W. (Brittany); Last quarter of the 9th century or 1st quarter of the 10th century
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Bodmin manumissions.

f. 1
Bodmin manumissions.
Bodmin manumissions

f. 1v
Bodmin manumissions
Decorated initial

f. 2
Decorated initial
 
Text page

f. 2
Text page
Text page

f. 3
Text page
Canon tables

f. 10
Canon tables
 
Canon tables

f. 12v
Canon tables
Canon tables

f. 13
Canon tables
Canon tables

f. 13
Canon tables
 
Decorated initial

f. 14v
Decorated initial
Decorated initials

f. 50
Decorated initials
Decorated initials.

f. 50
Decorated initials.
 
* (see the detailed record for 8 further images)
 

Additional 32246
Prisciano; Aelfric, Part of the Excerptiones with Old English and Latin marginal glosses; Colloquy, imperfect (ff. 18-19)
England; 1st half of the 11th century

Additional 40000
Gospel Book (the 'Thorney Gospels') with Eusebian canon tables (ff. 4v-9v); added Liber Vitae (ff. 1v-4, 9v-11,12) and list of relics (f. 11v) of Thorney Abbey
France, Central or NW (Brittany?); 1st quarter of the 10th century
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Book plates Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Gloddaeth Library

inside front cover
Book plates Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Gloddaeth Library
Thorney Liber Vitae

f. 1v
Thorney Liber Vitae
Description of binding.

f. 4
Description of binding.
 
Canon tables

f. 4v
Canon tables
List of relics

f. 11v
List of relics
Full page initial

f. 13
Full page initial
 
Full page-length initial

f. 34v
Full page-length initial
Decorated initial

f. 48
Decorated initial

Additional 47683
Leaf from a giant Bible
Italy, Central; 11th - 12th centuries
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Seven-branched candlestick

f. 1
Seven-branched candlestick
Musical instruments

f. 1v
Musical instruments

Arundel 45
Origines , Commentary on Jeremiah, and on the Song of Songs
Austria, N. (Metz?); 1st half of the 12th century
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Decorated initial

f. 1v
Decorated initial
Detail

f. 1v
Detail
Zoomorphic initial

f. 82
Zoomorphic initial
 
Detail

f. 82
Detail

Arundel 60   ff. 1-132v, 143-148v
Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)
England, S. ( Winchester); 3rd quarter of the 11th century, probably after 1073
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Aquarius

f. 2
Aquarius
Pisces

f. 2v
Pisces
Aries

f. 3
Aries
 
Taurus

f. 3v
Taurus
May

f. 4
May
Gemini

f. 4
Gemini
 
Gemini

f. 4
Gemini
Cancer

f. 4v
Cancer
Leo

f. 5
Leo
 
Virgo

f. 5v
Virgo
Virgo

f. 5v
Virgo
Libra

f. 6
Libra
 
* (see the detailed record for 17 further images)
 

Arundel 125
Job and Ezra, with prologues
France, N. E. (Saint-Bertin?); 1st half of the 9th century
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Heading in display capitals

f. 5v
Heading in display capitals
Detail: Heading in display capitals

f. 5v
Detail: Heading in display capitals
Decorated initial and display capitals

f. 54v
Decorated initial and display capitals
 
Detail: Decorated initial

f. 54v
Detail: Decorated initial

Arundel 155   ff. 2-135, 171-193
Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')
England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church); between 1012 and 1023
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November

f. 7
November
Table

f. 9
Table
Easter table

f. 9v
Easter table
 
Detail

f. 9v
Detail
Canon tables

f. 10
Canon tables
Detail

f. 10
Detail
 
Coloured initial

f. 11
Coloured initial
Coloured initials

f. 11v
Coloured initials
Illuminated initial and border

f. 12
Illuminated initial and border
 
Initial

f. 12v
Initial
Illuminated initial and border

f. 53
Illuminated initial and border
Detail

f. 53
Detail
 
* (see the detailed record for 13 further images)
 

Arundel 166   ff. 3-12
Pliny, Cornelius Celsus, and others, Epistola ad amicos (ff. 5v-6), Epistolae (ff. 6-9v); and other short texts
France or Germany; 1st half of the 9th century
 
Arundel 166   ff. 14-90
Scribonius Largus, Marcellus, Preface to Compositiones, De medicamentis liber
France or Germany; 9th century
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Decorated initials

ff. 42v-43
Decorated initials

Arundel 356
Hermann of Reichenau and others, Various lunar and astronomical tables and tracts, including Computus, a calendar and diagrams
Germany; 2nd half of the 11th century
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Illuminated initial

f. 28
Illuminated initial
Detail

f. 28
Detail
Table and illuminated initial

ff. 37v-38
Table and illuminated initial
 
Musical notation

f. 45
Musical notation

Arundel 375
Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories
France, N.; 2nd half of the 10th or 1st half of the 11th century
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Decorated initial

f. 1
Decorated initial
Interlace initial

f. 1
Interlace initial
Initial

f. 47v
Initial
 
Initial

f. 47v
Initial

Arundel 393
Dionisio-Hadriana
Germany, S.; 9th century
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Incipit

f. 18v
Incipit
Detail: Incipit

f. 18v
Detail: Incipit

Arundel 514   ff. 145-160v
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, imperfect
Germany; 11th century
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Detail

f. 161
Detail

Burney 41
Gospels, with prologues (ff. 2-6v, 58r-v, 79v-80, 115v-116), mass readings (ff. 6v-17v), capitula lists (ff. 17v-19, 58v-59v, 80-81v, 116-117), and canon tables (ff. 19v-23v, incomplete)
Germany (Lotharingia?); last quarter of the 11th or 1st quarter of the 12th century
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Canon table

f. 19v
Canon table
Detail

f. 19v
Detail
Evangelist portrait

f. 26***v
Evangelist portrait
 
Detail

f. 26***v
Detail
'LI'(ber) monogram

f. 27
'LI'(ber) monogram
Detail

f. 27
Detail
 

Burney 59
Romulus, Fabulae
France; 1st quarter of the 11th century
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Coloured initials

f. 2v
Coloured initials

Burney 277   f. 48r-v
Part leaf of a noted Missal with part of the text for Holy Saturday including the Canticle of Moses
Germany; c. 1000 - c. 1060
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Alternating red and blue-green script

f. 48v
Alternating red and blue-green script
Text

f. 48v
Text
 
Burney 277   ff. 69-72v
Fragments of an Antiphoner including parts of offices for Lawrence, Hippolitus, and Peter and Paul
England, S. E. (Canterbury ); 1st quarter of the 11th century
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Antiphon with neumes

f. 70
Antiphon with neumes
Neumes

f. 70
Neumes

Burney 317   ff. 3-168
Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezekiel
France, N. W. (Normandy); last quarter of the 11th century
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Decorated zoomorphic initial

f. 149v
Decorated zoomorphic initial
Detail

f. 149v
Detail

Egerton 269
Fragments from Law codices (Lex Saxonum, Lex Ripuariorum, Lex Salicam, Legis Alamannorum, Legis Burgundionum, etc.)
Germany; 2nd half of the 9th century
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Coloured initials.

f. 12
Coloured initials.

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