Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: B

Bible
One leaf, 45 cm x 30 cm.
Ms. 002098

Written in the style of the School of Winchester, England, ca. 1360, the text is in a round gothic hand with one decorated initial embellished in gold. The text is Ecclesiastes 19:7 - 20:8.

Bible
One leaf, 28 cm x 20 cm.
Ms. 002278

Written in an early, angular gothic hand probably at Cambridge, England, in the early thirteenth century, the leaf includes red and blue capitals and arabesques and a large illuminated initial embellished in gold. The text is Psalm 32:7 - 43:26. Gift of W.E. Thomas.

Bible
One leaf, 35 cm x 24 cm.
Ms. 002279

Glossed leaf of Bible from France, ca. 1190, written in a fine gothic hand. The text is Zechariah 4:2 - 5:2. Gift of W.E. Thomas.

Bible
Two leaves, 33 cm x 23 cm.
Ms. 002280

Written in a rounded Italian gothic hand of the fifteenth century, the text contains five large illuminated initials including one depicting the prophet Amos and one of Saint James reading from a scroll. Texts include Joel 1:15 - 3:21; Jerome's preface to Amos, Amos 1:1 - 1:3; Zephaniah 3:15 - 3:20; Jerome's preface to Haggai, and Haggai 1:1 - 2:20.

Bible
One leaf, 30 cm x 20 cm.
Ms. 002281

Written in an English gothic hand, ca. 1350, the text contains six capitals and six chapter numbers in red and blue. The text is Job 32:30 - 39:18. Gift of W.E. Thomas.

Bible
One leaf, 19 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 002282

Written in an English gothic hand of the fifteenth century. The leaf contains red and blue capitals at the beginning of each verse and large blue capitals with pen trailings at the beginning of each psalm. At the bottom of each column is a profile of a human face. Text is Psalms 21:30 - 25:5.

Bible
One leaf, 49 cm x 36 cm.
Ms. 002377

Written in a fine thirteenth-century French gothic hand in two columns, the text contains one five-line historiated initial in red and blue. The text is Judges 18:27 - 19:24.

Book of Hours
194 leaves, 8 cm x 5 cm.
Ms. Codex 001054

Written in a fine gothic hand in Florence, ca. 1495, this book of hours contains eight paired full-page illuminations prepared in atelier of Attavante di Attavante. The codex is finely decorated with historiated initials and floral borders. Gift of Madelyn C. Hickmott.

Book of Hours
One leaf, 19 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 001268

Single leaf of an English book of hours, ca. 1350, written in a fine gothic hand with five blue capitals and red tracery penwork.

Book of Hours
One leaf, 12 cm x 9 cm.
Ms. 001270

Single leaf of a fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours. Written in Dutch in a square gothic hand, the leaf contains two large initials in red and blue.

Book of Hours
Two leaves, 17 cm x 11 cm.
Ms. 001303

Two leaves of an English book of hours, ca. 1450, written in a high gothic hand. The leaves are not conjoint. They contain three large initials in gold and eighteen smaller capitals in red and blue.