1. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Buchanan e. 8 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size c. 134 x 94 mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Paris. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Paris Date 15th century, end - 16th century, beginning Folio or page no. fol. 016r Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: Gospel Lesson according to St. John. Rubric: 'Secundum iohannem'. Small miniature: St. John on Patmos. St. John seated on the island of Patmos, holding pen and piece of parchment. To the left is his symbol, the Eagle. In upper left corner: God the Father in clouds, holding gold orb. Particoloured decorated border on all sides with acanthus on unpainted ground and flowers on gold ground. Border contains peacock and hybrid creature (half-wolf, half-lion) carrying swaddled infant.

2. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Buchanan e. 8 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size c. 134 x 94 mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Paris. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Paris Date 15th century, end - 16th century, beginning Folio or page no. fol. 026r Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: Matins (Hours of the Virgin). Arched miniature: Annunciation. Virgin seated to the left, with hands in prayer, under canopy. Book open beside her on pulpit. Archangel Gabriel to the right holds a sceptre and raises his hand pointing at dove of the Holy Spirit flying down. Window with landscape at the back. Decorated initial 'D(Omine)' enclosing a bird. Particoloured decorated border on all sides with acanthus on unpainted ground and flowers on gold ground. Border contains bird and hybrid creatures. One has bird body and wings of a butterfly (moth), the other one has lower half of its body swallowed by animal. Gold tracery on frame.

3. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 77 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size approx. 205 x 150 mm Title text Book of Hours (fragment). Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Paris Date c. 1450-1470 Folio or page no. fol. 050v Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Mary. Decorated initials with foliate motifs. Decorated border on three sides with acanthus, strawberries and flowers. Bird. Hybrid grotesque (half man, half lion) playing musical instrument with a bow (viola?).

4. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Liturg. 60 Type of object Manuscript Material parchment Page size approx. 112 x 152 mm Title text Portable Psalter (Gallican). Secular. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Diocese of Limoges (?) Date 15th century, end Folio or page no. fol. 071v Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: psalm 52 (53). Historiated initial 'D(ixit)' with fool holding a bauble. In an empty room. Smaller decorated initials and line- fillers. Decorated border with acanthus, flowers, animals, hybrid creatures, red cherub.

5. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 17 Type of object Manuscript Material parchment Title text Book of Hours. Use of Coutances. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Normandy Date 15th century, third quarter Folio or page no. fol. 086r Whole page or detail detail Image description Detail. Lower part of page. Text: Office of the Dead. Border detail: hybrid grotesque with upper part of a man dressed as fool with bauble points at a man/monkey with tall red hat holding a fruit. Decorated initial 'D(ilexi)'.

6. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 35 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size approx. 186 x 137 mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Paris. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Tours Date Before 1464 Folio or page no. fol. 105v Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: Office of the Dead. Miniature. Burial in a church. Numerous mourners with tapers gathered in a church as four clerics carry a bier covered with blue pall. A man in torn clothes is digging a hole. Hanging cloth at the back, nave of church with aisles. Decorated initial 'D(ilexi)' with ivy. Decorated border with flowers, strawberries and acanthus. In lower margin, gold putto mounted on hybrid and hare, wattle fence in foreground.

7. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Bodl. 130 Type of object Manuscript Material paper Author (if known) Ps.-Apuleius Title text Dioscorides, Herbals (extracts). Country or nationality of origin English Place of origin Bury St. Edmunds abbey Date late 11th century Folio or page no. fol. 010v Image description Dropwort. Roll title MS. Bodl. 130. Herbal. Roll # 248.11 Frame # 11

8. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 62 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size 193 x 138mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Paris. Country or nationality of origin Italian; French Date c. 1400 Folio or page no. fol. 003v-004r Whole page or detail opening Image description Left: End of January. At bottom of page are two dogs smelling a plant. The same two dogs, in slightly varied poses, appear at the end of each month. Right: February. Man fishes with basket for catch beside him. (Pisces). Margins include women with baskets of fish and an ape. Roll title MS. Douce 62 (Occupations of the Months, Zodiac Signs, etc). Roll # 242.3 Frame # 002

9. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 221 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size approx. 275 x 200 mm Author (if known) Cicero Title text De amicitia, with glosses. Country or nationality of origin Italian Place of origin Lombardy Date 14th century, end Folio or page no. fol. 001r Whole page or detail whole page Image description Start of text. Decorated initial enclosing curving ivy tendrils with flowers. Ivy stems with dragon heads extend into margins. Hybrid grotesque with head of man wearing hood, and lower half of animal. Monkey on ivy in lower margin and hybrid youth (animal legs), holding bag-pipes. Marginal and interlinear glosses.

10. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 308 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Author (if known) Richard of Fournival Title text Bestiaire d'Amour. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Lorraine (Metz) Date 14th century, first quarter Folio or page no. fol. 089v Image description A 'Wivre' in text (drawn as a Wyvern). Open-mouthed, the animal starts away in fear from the sight of a nude figure. (It is said not to be frightened by a clothed figure). ("So the lover is at first naked and vulnerable from being in love, but later is clothed in his pride at being loved and gains courage from this"). Roll title MS. Douce 308, part B (Richard of Fournival, Bestiaire d'Amour). Roll # 180G Frame # 14

11. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 48 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size approx. 140 x 95 mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Metz. Penitential psalms. Office for the dead. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Metz Date 14th century, beginning Folio or page no. fol. 221v Whole page or detail whole page Image description Text: beginning of Compline (Hours of the Virgin). Historiated initial 'C(onuerte)' with Coronation of the Virgin. Christ seated beside kneeling Virgin places a crown on her head. Champ initials and decorated initials with penwork flourishing. Bar border decorated with ivy tendrils, dragon, unicorn fighting other animal (lion?).

12. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 72 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Page size 200 x 130 mm Title text Book of Hours. Use of Rouen. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Normandy Date 16th century, first quarter Folio or page no. fol. 033v-034r Whole page or detail opening Image description Text-page with surround border of flowers, strawberries, bird and animal with white and blue acanthus leaf scrolls. Roll title MS. Douce 72, fols. 30v-40r. Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French. Illuminated in Normandy, 1st quarter of the 16th century. Roll # 446.4 Frame # 005

13. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Laud Misc. 751 Type of object Manuscript Material parchment Author (if known) Quintus Curtius Rufus; Vasque de Lucène (translation) Title text Historia Alexandri Magni. Country or nationality of origin Flemish Date c. 1470-1480 Folio or page no. fol. 172r Whole page or detail detail Image description Grotesque, half animal, large human face with hat, on which is half figure of knight with shield tilting at hairy man on a bear, wearing upturned scuttle. Roll title MS. Laud Misc. 751. Flemish illumination: Grotesques etc., details from the borders. Roll # 173E Frame # 15

14. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Shelfmark MS. Douce 308 Type of object Manuscript Material Parchment Author (if known) Richard of Fournival Title text Bestiaire d'Amour. Country or nationality of origin French Place of origin Lorraine (Metz) Date 14th century, first quarter Folio or page no. fol. 098r Image description Besides singing loudly and unattractively, the swallow eats while flying. "So also do some people love, on the wing, and cannot be held by love". Roll title Miscellaneous. Roll # 258 Frame # 7