Manuscript Collection (page 4)

Euripides Medea (Fragment)
Minute fragment from Euripides Medea, v.1057-1062, parchment. From a codex, main body text in brown in a rounded unical hand

Biblical Commentary (Fragment)
Fragment of a leaf from a religious text, probably a biblical commentary, parchment. Contains a commentary on and text from Romans

Justinian Digesta, Books V and VI (Fragment)
Bifolium from a copy of Justinian's Pandects, or Digesta Justiniani Augusti, parchment. Containing part of the end of Book V (De Judiciis) and the beginning of Book VI (De Rei Vindicatione)

Gospel of St Mark: Summaries of Chapters (Fragment)
Fragment of a leaf, parchment, with text from the Capitula to the Gospel according to Mark. Date: Late 7th Century

Hebrew Manuscript Fragments
Two folios, parchment, probably from the same manuscript but not necessarily consecutive. Text is from the Book of Genesis, beginning at Chapter 7, verse 18 on f.1, and ends at Chapter 48 on f.2

Unidentified Fragments
Three fragments from an unidentified text

List?
Single folio, paper, with numbered paragraphs on the recto, possibly an itemised list. Blank on the verso. Text in a German cursive in brown ink, no line rulings. Date: 15th Century

Financial Records?
Manuscript records on paper, possibly financial or legal records. Probably originally pages from a volume or volumes, they have been cut into regularly sized rectangles

Der Sachsenspiegel (Fragment)
Fragment of a copy of Der Sachsenspiegel or Sassen Speyghel, which is a compendium of German law notable for having been written in Middle Low German (rather than Latin) in about 1220

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

Gebetbuch (Fragment)
Five leaves from a prayer book (Gebetbuch) in Middle Dutch, parchment. Consists of one bifolium and three loose leaves, probably consecutive

Lotze Manuscript (Fragment)
Two manuscript leaves from Rudolph Hermann Lotze's Metaphysik, written and corrected in the same hand. Corrections are made in ink and red pencil. On paper

Leven Van Jesus (Fragment)
Leaf from a manuscript of Leven Van Jesus (Life of Christ), parchment. The text is a verse in Middle Dutch based on Matthew 26:2-5 and 14-16, Matthew 27, and Luke 12:9-15. Date: 14th Century

Charter (Fragment)
Fragment of a charter, parchment, apparently recording the sale of a house by (-) Wingartman and his wife in the neighbourhood of Trier in the year (13-)

Charter (Fragments)
Charter recording a mortgage for a house, cut into two pieces for use as book binding material. On parchment. Text in dark brown-black ink in a gothic cursive hand

List of Names (Fragment)
Parchment leaf. A namenregister comprising a list of names in two columns, mostly men but including a few women. It has been suggested that it is perhaps a list of those who have subscribed to a

Virginal, or Dietrich's Erste Ausfahrt (Fragment)
Fragment of a bifolium from the Virginal or Dietrich's Erste Ausfahrt (Dietrich's First Departure), parchment. An epic poem from the Dietrich cycle

Von Eschenbach, Willehalm (Fragment)
Fragment of a copy of Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm, parchment. The text is a poem in rhyming couplets. The item has been photographed as a whole

Diary
Leaf from a diary, paper. Dated December (1644) to February 1645. Has a foolscap (jester's head) watermark. Date: 1644 - 1645

Inventory
Sheet of paper, possibly the endpaper from a book, with a handwritten list or inventory in French dated 16 February 1605. With pieces of the binding thread attached in the gutter

John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Fragments)
Four leaves (2 bifolia) from an illuminated manuscript copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis, parchment. The text is the B version and is part of Book V

Caricature illustration of flustered Cook and assertive Housemaid, by Stan Terry. Captioned, Facts are Stranger than Fiction'

The city of Alexandria. Liber chronicarum. 15th century. Col
Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel. The city of Alexandria. 15th century. Latin edition. Colored engraving. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Spain

Engraving depicting the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg Chronic
Nuremberg Chronicle. German version, December 23, 1493. Compiled by Hartmann Schedel and engraving by Michael Wolgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Engraving depicting the city of Nuremberg

The Cologne Chronicle by Johann Koelhoff the Younger. 15th c
The Cologne Chronicle by Johann Koelhoff the Younger (1440- 1502). 1499. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Engraving depicting the city of Alexandria. Liber chronicaru
Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel. Engraving depicting the city of Alexandria. 15th century. Latin edition. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Spain

The disciples are convinced the Jesus is dead. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Initial. Missal
Missal. Initial detail. Friar near death. Latin. Codex 9. 1524. Printing Rosenbach (Barcelona, Spain). Chapter Archive of Tortosa. Catalonia. Spain

Charles the Bold (1433-1477). Allegory of the death of Cha
Charles the Bold (1433-1477). Duke of Burgundy (1467-1477). Allegory of the death of Charles the Bold. 15th century. Miniature of Le Chevalier deliberate. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Book of the Tournament. Knight on horseback and armed with spears. Miniature. Fol. 40 v. 15th century Vatican Apostolic Library. Italy

The end of the world and the Last Judgement. The graves were opened. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Jesus, going to Naim, find people carrying a dead, only child of a widowed mother, and Jesus resurrects him. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

The End of the world and the Last Judgement. The dead will come out of the tombs. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Orpheus death. Illustration from the French version of Ovid's Metamorphoses (15th-16th centuries). Gothic art. Miniature Painting

DONATI, ngelo (16th century). Comfortable life may slow Death but it can not escape'. Illustration of the manuscript The Courtship of Death (Il Corteggio della Morte) by Abbot Angelo Donati

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Depiction of a battle. Islamic art. Miniature Painting

The Coronation Book of Henry I - a 12th century manuscript of St John's Gospel, said to have been used for the taking of the Coronation Oath from Henry I to Henry VIII

Verses of a song by Walther von der Vogelweide
Two verses of the song Wenn die Blumen aus dem Grase dringen (When the flowers sprout through the grass) by the German poet and minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide (c1170-c1230). Date: circa 1230

Page from the Barsegape manuscript
An illustrated page from the a manuscript of the Italian poet Pietro da Barsegape, showing people rising from the dead on the Day of Judgement. Date: 14th century

Illuminated calendar for August 1846
Calendar for August with figures of Joel and St. Bartholomew, quote from Thessalonians, disciples, woman with wheat, birds, foliage and castles

Illuminated calendar for July 1846
Calendar for July with figures of Sophomas and St. Philip, quote from Colossians, disciples, lion, birds, foliage and castles. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Illuminated calendar for June 1846
Calendar for June with figures of Amos and St. James the Less, quote from Philippians, disciples, crab, birds, foliage and castles. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Illuminated calendar for May 1846
Calendar for May with figures of Olee and St. Thomas, quote from Ephesians, disciples, Adam and Eve, birds, foliage and castles. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Illuminated calendar for April 1846
Calendar for April with figures of Zechariah and St. John the Evangelist, quote from Galatians, disciples, castles, bull, birds and foliage. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou

Illuminated calendar for March 1846
Calendar for March with figures of Elias and St. James the Greater, quote from Corinthians, disciples, lamb, castles, birds and foliage. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Illuminated calendar for February 1846
Calendar for February with figures of David and St. Andrew, quote from Romans, disciples, birds, fish and castles. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Title page from illuminated calendar for 1846
Title page with calligraphy and decorative design with foliage, birds. angel and mythical creature with lance and shield. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380

Illuminated calendar for December 1846
Calendar for December with figures of Daniel and St. Matthew, quote from Epistle to the Hebrews, disciples, man slaying a boar with an axe, goat, dog, birds, foliage and castles

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