Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

extent:ff. 2r-4r

incipit: SEcundum Augustinum in primo

explicit: beatitudinis participandum ad [...]

extent:ff. 4v-9r

incipit: LIber esdre prophetae tercius

explicit: et ecce de sex pennaculis [...]

extent:ff. 11r-688r

rubric: Incipit Epistola sancti Ieronimi ad paulinum presbyterum

incipit: FRater ambrosius tua michi

explicit: omnis spiritus laudet dominum

decoration:Decorated capitals, varying between 4 and 8 lines high, begin the first word of each new book of the Bible. Bodies of letters are in blue ink and framed and filled in with red ink (or vice-versa). On twelve occasions, capitals are illuminated with gold leaf, described below. Alternating one- and two-line capitals in red and blue ink are used to indicate new sections or chapters of a text, though not all spaces left for an initial have been filled. Guide letters where two-line capitals are to be inserted are occasionally observed in the margins. Marginal descending tails of certain letters are occasionally very long. On f. 11r, the 8-line initial "F" of "frater" is executed in a magenta-colored ink. The background is in dark blue with gold vine flourishes. The tail of "F" is extended in the inner margin all the way to the bottom of the text column. Light green and aqua-blue add further decorative touches. On f. 40r, the 5-line initial "H" of "hec" is executed in an aqua green ink with pink flourishes on the tails and a dark red interior. Gold appears on far-right side of the bow of the "h." On f. 59v, the 5-line initial "V" of "vocauit" is composed in aqua blue ink with green flourishes and a pink interior. Gold is added to left side top and bottom corners of the letter. On f. 92v, the 6-line initial "H" of "hec" is composed in aqua blue ink with green and pink ink on tails of the stem of the "h". Interior is green also, and gold is added to far-right side. On f. 110v, the 5-line initial "E" of "et" is composed in aqua green ink, dark red interiors, and gold bordering around the rectangular edges. On f. 122v, the 5-line initial "P" of "post" is composed in violet and pink ink with dark red in interior of lobe of "p" and aqua green and blue tails from the stem. Gold borders the lobe of "p". On f. 137v, the 5-line initial "V" of "viginti" is composed in aqua green ink, with a dark red interior and a pink flourish at top tail of "v." Gold is brushed on in corners of the main square. On f. 138v, the 5-line initial "F" of "fuit" is composed in pink ink with dark red interiors and green foliate tails off the main stem. Gold accents the green foliation. On f. 409v, the 4-line initial "Q" of "quomodo" is composed in pink with gold taking up the interior of the lobe and the square corners outside the letter. An elaborate tail descends in the left margin down to the bottom margin where it "blossoms" into green foliage and pink flowers with thin tendrils of green and blue. Gold dots accent this bottom register of the capital letter. On f. 412r, the 4-line initial "E" of "et" is composed in green ink with dark red background. Both left hand corners of the letter's main square branch into the top-left and bottom-left margins respectively. The top tendril is aqua blue with pink flowers and the bottom is green with pink flowers. Dots of gold are visible along the two marginal tendrils and faintly in the right-hand top and bottom corners of the main square. On f. 415v, the 4-line initial "E" of "ezechiel" is entirely gold with elaborate border, interior, and marginal tendrils in green ink with small red flowers. On f. 416r, the 4-line initial "E" of "et" is blue with dark red interior, violet and pink borders. Two tendrils veer off from the left-hand side of the letter into the upper and lower parts of the left-hand margin. The top tendril is green with gold blooms, and the bottom is blue with gold blooms. Gold is also visible in the bottom far-right corner of the main square of the "e."

author:Pseudo-Remigius Autissiodorensis

extent:ff. 688r-710v

incipit: Aaz apprehendens uel apprehensio

explicit: uel consiliatores eorum

colophon: Finis interpretacionum. Anno domini M.CCCC.xuii.die sabbati proxima ante uictorini in Blathna

extent:ff. 710v-714v

incipit: Epistola Romanorum 13

explicit: eius ut accusarent eum