Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.2
Book of Hours
Contents
Language(s): Latin, with additions in Latin and Middle English
Full transcription. Part of the third line lost due to damage; missing text supplied from additional copy by the same hand on f. 75r.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription. See also f. 1v.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Unique to this manuscript.
Added by an unidentified 15th-century hand.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
'Episcopum' written over the erased word 'pape'.
Full transcription.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
See Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription.
The text is prose but presented as verse. It describes the benefits of keeping an image of St Dorothy in the home as a protection against miscarriage.
Added by an unidentified 15th-century hand, probably the same as that responsible for the following two items.
Full transcription. Added by an unidentified 15th-century hand, probably the same as that responsible for the preceding and following item.
Added by an unidentified 15th-century hand, probably the same as that responsible for the preceding two items.
Added by an unidentified late 15th-/early 16th-century hand.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Prayer invokes the names of Biblical couples whose wives conceived in old age, with similar wording to that found in charms.
Annotated by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542) and possibly Edmund Roberts (1520-1585); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphons (RH 18189, 23474), the Kyrieleison, and prayer 'Deus qui nobis signati lumine'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Edmund Roberts (1520-1585); see Provenance for further details.
These Psalms each occur in the Prayer to Christ copied above by Thomas Roberts. Concludes with 'Qui crucis in patibulo / adoramus te Christi Ihesu pater aue et credo', also repeating a component of the prayer above.
Antiphon (RH 6908) and prayer 'Deus qui montem garganium'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
'Papa' erased and 'episcopo' written above, in both the rubric and opening line, probably by Edmund Roberts (1520-1585) or perhaps by Michael Roberts (1519-1544). See Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphon (RH 39618) and prayer 'Concede quaesumus omnipotens et misericors deus ut qui beati christofori'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphon (RH 26987) and prayer 'Beate iohannes baptista christi precursor'.
Antiphon (RH 27075) and prayer 'Ecclesiam tuam quesumus domine'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 16th century, perhaps Edmund Roberts (1520-1585) or Michael Roberts (1519-1544); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphon (RH 7242) and prayer 'Omnipotens sempiterne deus'.
Full transcription.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th-century, the same as that responsible for the following item.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th-century, the same as that responsible for the preceding item.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century.
Full transcription.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that responsible for the following item.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that responsible for the preceding item.
Antiphon (RH 6991) and prayer 'Deus qui beatam Katherinam uirginem et martyrem'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphon (RH 7011) and prayer 'Deprecationem nostram quesumus domine benignus'.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Antiphon (RH 6895) and prayer 'Deus qui beatam mariam magdalenam penitentiam ita tibi placitam'.
Attributed in the rubric to Richard Fitzjames (d. 1522), bishop of London.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Six entries, noting the births of Dorothy, Anne, Alice, Michael, Edmund and John, with closing rubric dated June 1537. For further discussion of the compilation of the entries, as well as the erasures, see Connolly (2019), p. 168.
Attributed in the final line to Pope Alexander VI (reg. 1492-1503), 'implying an indulgence of some kind' (Connolly (2019), p. 212).
Prayer added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that reponsible for the following item.
Rubric written in the margin by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Prayer added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that reponsible for the preceding item.
Initial D written into space left for decorative initial by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Hymn (RH 18310?); prayers 'Deus qui de beate marie virginis', 'O intemerata', and 'Obsecro te'; seven prayers in honour of the Virgin, with an indulgence for remission of a hundred days in the name of Pope Clement (RH 21899); final prayer 'Te deprecor sanctissima maria'.
Ten hymns excerpted from Johannes Lemovicensis / John of Limoges, De passione Christi. The first eight are addressed to the Crucifix, Cross, Head and Five Wounds of Christ, the last two to the Virgin and St John the Evangelist: RH 14081; 20594; 23377; 33260; 'Ave tu sinistra' (not in RH); 39355; 'Salve vulnus dextri pedis'; 'Levi pedis perforati' (not in RH), 30648; 28714.
'Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui unigenitum filium tuum'.
Three groups of three phrases, bracketed under the titles 'Preterita', 'Presentia' and 'Futura'.
Added by Edmund Roberts (1520-1585), who also added his initials and the date 1585; see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription. See also f. 1v.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription. See also f. 1v.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Full transcription.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
The final rubric suggests that the prayer functioned as an indulgence.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that responsible for the following item.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century, the same as that reponsible for the preceding item.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th or 16th century. See also f. 103v.
Added by one or more unidentified hands of the 15th or 16th centuries, with perhaps an interlinear insertion ('passio Ihesu Christi conforta me mors Ihesu Christi viuifica me') added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
According to Connolly (2019), p. 214, copied by the same hand as the following item.
According to Connolly (2019), p. 214, copied by the same hand as the preceding item.
Full transcription.
Added by an unidentified hand of the late 16th century.
Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th or 16th century. See also f. 103v.
?Seven lines of erased text immediately beneath the levation prayer.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Perhaps a continuation of the previous item, since mention is also made here of fevers.
Final rubric added by Edmund Roberts (1520-1585).
Added by an unidentified hand of the late 16th century, perhaps Francis Roberts (1551-1631) or another of Edmund's children.
Added by Edmund Roberts (1520-1585); see Provenance for further details.
Seven entries, noting the births of Francis, Katherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Thomas, Edmond and Mary, with the date 1575. For further discussion, see Connolly (2019), p. 217.
For colic. Added by an unidentified hand of the 15th century. Full transcription.
Added by the hand of Thomas Roberts (1470-1542); see Provenance for further details.
Physical Description
Mid-20th-century foliation:
[i-ii] + 1-3 + 4-19, 22-28, 31, 33-73, 75-103 + 108-110 + [iii-iv]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf, by H.L. Pink. Folio numbers 20-21, 29-30, 32, 74 and 104-107 assigned to leaves determined on the basis of collation to be missing from the volume (as per historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library). (See Collation for further details on this point).
Collation
At their core, most of the quires of this manuscript comprise eight leaves, however their structure is obscured by the addition in numerous places of single leaves bearing full-page miniatures. The picture is especially confused after the calendar, where there are several short suffrage texts interspersed with miniatures of the saints to which these prayers are directed. In an unpublished description of the manuscript, M.R. James described these simply as 'loose leaves'. Numerous of them have been repaired along the spinefold and it is possible that leaves that were originally singletons have been joined together to form artificial bifolia, since these may be more securely sewn into the binding; unfortunately, the tightness of the binding precludes a deeper examination of their structure. The leaf signatures in this section (written in red-orange ink, now much-faded) cannot necessarily be taken as an accurate guide to the quires' structure: although medieval, they are later additions.
The collation of the manuscript by H.L. Pink, perhaps around the time the manuscript was rebound in 1960, and his addition of leaf signatures to indicate the sequence of leaves in each quire, only adds to the confusion. Pink often took the stubs of these decorative leaves - which had only ever been singletons - as evidence of a leaf having been cancelled in that location: hence the frequent occurrence in his formula (written on the rear pastedown) of quires of ten leaves, a structure atypical for manuscripts of this kind and of this date and place of origin.
In this situation, it seems unwise to superimpose yet another interpretation of the structure of the suffrage / miniature quires (Quires 2-4 in Pink's formula) and risk further compounding the confusion. Instead, they are noted below as being of uncertain structure. In order to minimise the disjuncture between this formula and that which preceded it, but yet permit corrections to be made, the numbering of the quires that follow the suffrages and miniatures will include the letters assigned by H.L. Pink. What is provided here broadly follows the collation as given by M.R. James in an unpublished description (see Source for further details).
- 3 medieval parchment endleaves
- Quire 1/a6 (ff. 4-9)
- Quires Two-Four/b-d??uncertain (ff. 10-31)
- Quire 5/e8+2 (ff. 33-42: ff. 33 and 37 are single leaves inserted before the 1st and after the 3rd leaves of the quire)
- Quire 6/f8+6 (ff. 43-56: ff. 44, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55 are single leaves inserted after the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th leaves of the quire)
- Quire 7/g8+1 (ff. 57-65: f. 59 is a single leaf inserted after the 2nd leaf of the quire)
- Quire 8/h8+1-1 (ff. 66-73: f. 68 is a single leaf inserted after the 2nd leaf of the quire; the final leaf of the quire is missing, but may have originally been blank)
- Quire 9/i8+1 (ff. 75-83: f. 75 is a single leaf inserted before the 1st leaf of the quire)
- Quire 10/k8+1 (ff. 84-92: f. 84 is a single leaf inserted before the 1st leaf of the quire)
- Quire 11/l8 (ff. 93-100)
- Quire 12/mthree/8-5 (ff. 101-103: three leaves, but probably originally a quire of 8, of which the 4th-8th are now missing, but may have originally been blank)
Leaf signatures, medieval but added after the insertion of the single leaves that bear miniatures.
No quire signatures.
No catchwords.Condition
Several of the miniatures have been rubbed and the pigments smudged (ff. 10v, 26v, 30v, 33v, 44v, 51v).
Pigments have also flaked away in places (10v, 59v) and transferred to facing leaves (44v-45r).
Numerous leaves have been heavily thumbed at the edges (e.g. 31r-31v, 39r-43v).
Several leaves are stained (e.g. 100v-102r).
Layout
125 × 75 mm. Text: frame and line ruling in red ink, single column, 24 lines to the page, written below top line.
Calendar: frame and line ruling in red ink, single column, 36 lines to the page, written below top line.
Hand(s)
Text and calendar written in textura quadrata.
Decoration
Miniatures:
Twenty-one (originally twenty-two) full-page miniatures, each on single leaves and probably prepared by an artist as a standard set:
- 10v: Throne of Mercy ('Domine deus omnipotens')
- 12v: Vernicle ('Salve sancta facies')
- 14v: St Michael and dragon ('Gaude princeps superiorum')
- 16v: St Christopher ('O sancta Cristofore')
- 18v: St John the Evangelist (left) and St John the Baptist (right) ('Gaude Iohannes Baptista'; 'Beate Iohannes Baptista'; 'Gaude pater via morum')
- 22v: St George and dragon ('Georgi martyr')
- 24v: St Catherine ('Gaude virgo Katherina')
- 26v: St Margaret ('Gaude virgo Margareta')
- 28v: St Anne with Virgin and Child (memoria removed)
- [30v: ?St Mary Magdalene; miniature removed ('Gaude pia magdalena')]
- 33v: Annunciation ('Matins of Virgin')
- 37v: Visitation (Lauds)
- 44v: Nativity (Prime)
- 47v: Annunciation to the Shepherds (Terce)
- 49v: Adoration of the Magi (Sext)
- 51v: Massacre of the Innocents (None)
- 53v: Flight into Egypt (Vespers)
- 55v: Presentation in the Temple (Compline)
- 59v: Our Lady of Humility ('Salve virgo virginum')
- 68v: Crucifixion ('Omnibus consideratis paradisus voluptatis')
- 75v: Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion ('Penitential Psalms')
- 84v: Funeral service ('Office of the Dead')
Ten five-line initials, in blue or orange with internal white filigree and enclosing scrollwork of blue and orange flowers, on gold background; with gold, blue and mauve single bar borders descending from the initial, sprouting branches tipped with blue, orange and gold flowers, ivy and trefoil leaves, at the Hours of the Virgin (ff. 34r, 38r, 45r, 50r, 52r, 54r, 56r), the Penitential Psalms (f. 76r), the Office of the Dead (f. 85r) and the Commendatio animarum (f. 95v).
Two- and three-line initials in gold, on blue and mauve background, at the opening of the months in the Calendar, and of prayers and verses.
One-line initials in gold or blue with purple or red pen flourishing.
Miniatures framed by blue and mauve panels with white patterns, gold ornamentation, and short black sprays terminating in gold ivy leaves, and surmounted by turreted arches, simulating stone masonry.
Gold, blue and mauve bbars extending from illuminated initials into branches tipped with blue, orange and gold flowers, ivy and trefoil leaves.
Impaled coats of arms of the Tilney and Thorpe families of Norfolk (f. 2v).
Additions
Feast day of St Etheldreda (17 October) inserted in the Calendar (f. 8v; see also prayer added to f. 102v).
Numerous additions by various identified and unidentified hands of the 15th and 16th centuries, comprising prayers, charms, family records and other matter. These have been catalogued as part of the contents of the manuscript. See Contents and Provenance for further details.
Quire and leaf signatures ('a-m') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the leaves in the first half of each quire (sometimes also the second half), and '+' in the same position on the first leaf after the centre of the quire, written in pencil by H.L. Pink. A collation formula by his hand is also written on the rear pastedown.
Binding
Full goatskin (W.H. Smith and Son, Ltd , London, 1960).
Spine labels from a former (probably 18th-century) binding have been adhered to the front pastedown.
History
'One of the earliest Flemish Hours produced for English patrons [...]. Despite stylistic similarities with Northern Netherlandish manuscripts, [a] Bruges origin is supported by [a] group of manuscripts of s. xiv/xv illuminated in [the] same style in [the] circle of [the] Master of Pink Baldachins, some of which contain Bruges calendars (e.g. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. liturg. 125)'.
Provenance and Acquisition
Addition of St Etheldreda, patron saint of Ely, to the Calendar (f. 8v) and of a prayer to her (f. 102v) point to early ownership in East Anglia.
Addition of obituaries to the calendar indicate that the manuscript was in Suffolk by the first half of the fifteenth century:
- f. 5r: 'Obitus domine Margerie Carbonell uxoris domini I[ohannis] C[arbonell] m[ilitis], Anno domini Millesimo CCCCmo vicesimo vito, littera dominicalis e' / 'The death of Margerie Carbonell , wife of Sir John Carbonell [of Badingham in Hoxne Hundred], in the year of Our Lord 1426, dominical letter e': i.e. 2 March 1426 (not 4 March, the line on which the inscription begins).
- f. 8r: 'Obitus Margarete Heuenyngham, Anno domini Millesimo CCCCxxxii, littera dominicalis G' / 'The death of Margaret Heveningham , in the year of Our Lord 1432, dominical letter G': i.e. 2 September 1432 (not 1 September, the line on which the inscription begins).
The individuals named may have been former owners, though no explicit evidence of their possession of the manuscript exists, and it is equally possible that the book was in the hands of unnamed relatives.
Addition of impaled coat of arms of the Tilney and Thorpe families (f. 2v) indicates that the manuscript was later in Norfolk, later in the 15th and/or in the early 16th centuries.
Additions and notes relating to members of the Roberts family indicate the manuscript was in Middlesex, certainly during the second half of the 16th century and perhaps for longer:
- f. 33r: 'The tyme of Byrth of Thomas Robertz Children', with dates of birth ranging from 1508 to 1531.
- f. 109v: further dates of birth for Roberts family children, with dates ranging from 1550 to 1574.
The individuals named may have possessed or accessed the manuscript, individually or jointly, and at varying times, however the only evidence that points more firmly towards ownership are the recurrent additions and inscriptions by Thomas Roberts (1470-1542) and Edmund Roberts (1521-1585) of Willesden. The latter wrote his name in many places, usually across openings that contain miniatures, and often with the date 1553, which may be when he acquired the book (ff. 4r, 33v-34r, 37v-38r, 44v-45r, 54r, etc).
f. 103v: a further inscription relating to a child's date of birth, probably made by a parent or other family member and perhaps after the manuscript had left the possession of the Roberts family: 'Memorandum that Anne Barnesdale was borne 16 day of September 1588 on a Monday'.
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 151 (f. 2r) in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine in 1736 on front pastedown.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card. For information on eligibility and admissions procedures, see Joining the Library). For further enquiries, and to confirm the availability of the manuscript, please contact the Special Collections Reading Room.
Bibliography
-
Repertorium hymnologicum: Catalogue de chants, hymnes, proses, séquences, tropes en
usage dans
l'église latine depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours Subsidia hagiographica, Chevalier, Ulysse (Louvain; Bruxelles, 1892)
Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: a descriptive handlist of the musical and Latin-liturgical
MSS. of
the Middle Ages preserved in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, Frere, W.H. (London, 2, 1894)
Levation Prayers in Middle English Verse Modern Philology, Robbins, Rossell Hope (40, 2, 131-146, 1942, http://www.jstor.org/stable/434231)
A selection of religious lyrics Clarendon medieval and Tudor series, Gray, Douglas (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975)
Lay devotions in late medieval English manuscripts, Harris-Matthews, Jane Mary (Cambridge, 1980, M.Litt.)
The lost brass of Richard Lyons Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, Rogers, Nicholas (13, 232-236, 1982)
A Middle English lyric in an Old French manuscript Medium Ævum, Barratt, Alexandra (52, 2, 226-229, 1983)
Books of Hours produced in the Low Countries for the English market in the fifteenth
century, Rogers, Nicholas (Cambridge, 1984, M.Litt.)
Vlaamse verluchte handschriften vóór Jan van Eyck (ca. 1400-1420): een verkenning
Middeleeuwse handschriftenkunde in de Nederlanden 1988: Verslag van de Groningse Codicologendagen
28-29 april 1988 Nijmeegse codicologische cahiers, Cardon, Bert (Grave, 215-228, Alfa, 1989)
Splendours of Flanders, Arnould, AlainMassing, Jean MichelSpufford, PeterBlackburn, M.A.S. (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
Naer natueren ghelike: Vlaamse miniaturen voor Van Eyck (ca. 1350-ca. 1420), Smeyers, Maurits (Leuven, Davidsfonds, 1993)
Vlaamse miniaturen voor Van Eyck (ca. 1380-ca. 1420): catalogus : Cultureel Centrum
Romaanse
Poort, Leuven, 7 september-7 november 1993. Corpus van verluchte handschriften = Corpus
of illuminated manuscripts, (Leuven, Peeters, 1993)
Marginal decorations in pre-Eyckian manuscripts Flanders in a European perspective:
manuscript illumination around 1400 in Flanders and abroad:
proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven, 7-10 September 1993 Corpus van
verluchte handschriften = Corpus of illuminated manuscripts ; Low Countries
series, Deneffe, Dominique (Leuven, 297-308, Peeters, 1995)
Oxford University College MS 5: A Flemish Book of Hours for a Dominican Nun Flanders
in a European perspective: manuscript illumination around 1400 in Flanders and abroad:
proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven, 7-10 September 1993 Corpus van
verluchte handschriften = Corpus of illuminated manuscripts ; Low Countries
series, Rogers, Nicholas (Leuven, 219-229, Peeters, 1995)
Bruges artists in London: the patronage of the House of Lancaster Flanders in a European
perspective: manuscript illumination around 1400 in Flanders and abroad:
proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven, 7-10 September 1993 Corpus van
verluchte handschriften = Corpus of illuminated manuscripts ; Low Countries
series, Wright, Sylvia (Leuven, 93-109, Peeters, 1995)
The cyclical illustrations of the Little Hours of the Virgin in pre-Eyckian manuscripts
Flanders in a European perspective: manuscript illumination around 1400 in Flanders
and abroad:
proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven, 7-10 September 1993 Corpus of
illuminated manuscripts, Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique (Leuven, 285-296, Peeters, 1995)
Into his secret chamber: reading and privacy in late medieval England The practice
and representation of reading in England, Taylor, Andrew (Cambridge, 41-61, Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection The Robert Lehman Collection, (New York, 4, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University
Press,
Princeton, 1997, http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/The_Robert_Lehman_Collection_Vol_4_Illuminations)
The illustration and decoration of manuscripts of Nicholas Love's <hi rend="italics">Mirror
of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ</hi> Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the
International Conference, 20-22 July 1995, Scott, Kathleen L. (Cambridge, 61-86, D.S. Brewer, 1997)
Marking the hours: English people and their prayers 1240-1570, Duffy, Eamon (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2006)
Practical reading for body and soul in some later medieval manuscript miscellanies
Journal of the Early Book Society, Connolly, Margaret (10, 151-174, 2007)
Le cycle de l’Enfance des petites heures de la Vierge dans les livres d’heures des
Pays-Bas
méridionaux: Un bilan intermédiare Manuscripten en miniaturen: studies aangeboden
aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de
Koninklijke Bibliotheek Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel
; nieuwe reeks, 8, Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique (Zutphen, 355-365, Walburg, 2007)
'O vernicle': Illustrations of an Arma Christi Poem Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott:
English Medieval manuscripts : readers, makers and
illuminators, Nichols, Ann Eljenholm (London, 139-169, Harvey Miller, 2009)
Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo) Index of Middle English Prose, Connolly, Margaret (Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846157363)
Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge University
Library, Binski, PaulZutshi, Patrick (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511780479)
Sixteenth-Century Readers Reading Fifteenth-Century Religious Books: The Roberts Family
of
Middlesex Middle English religious writing in practice: texts, readers, and transformations
Late medieval and early modern studies, Connolly, Margaret (Turnhout, 239-262, Brepols, 2013)
Performative Rituals for Conception and Childbirth in England, 900–1500 Bulletin of
the History of Medicine, Jones, Peter MurrayOlsan, Lea T. (89, 3, 406-433, 2015, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/596616)
Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts, Rudy, Kathryn M. (Open Book Publishers, 2016)
Sixteenth-century readers, fifteenth-century books: continuities of reading in the
English
reformation Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology, Connolly, Margaret (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652421)
Funding of Cataloguing
Kate Rudy (digitisation); Wellcome (cataloguing)
Digital Images
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
