January 26, 2013

Midrealm Persona Project: 10 manuscripts from my time

Response to Question from 1/26/13, For the A&S 50 Persona Project

"List as many illuminated manuscripts, book of hours, ext. written in your century AND your time period. Try to find 10!"

Here are some links for you:

This one I call MOMMO: Mother Of all Medieval Manuscripts Online. It occurred to me most of the links I have been saving for years are right here anyway. http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml

And here are my personal links:

https://delicious.com/jocelyn6/manuscriptcollections
https://delicious.com/jocelyn6/manuscriptfacsimiles

So, here goes:

Jocelyn’s List of 12th century English manuscripts
(This one goes to 11)

“Winchester Psalter’ or ‘Psalter of Henry of Blois’
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century, Winchester Cathedral
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=1&ref=Cotton_MS_nero_c_iv
Fully Digitized, British Library: MS Cotton Nero c iv
f. 7r--Very interesting striped hose

Miscellany including Bede's De Natura Rerum A composite manuscript: John Chrysostom, Homilies. Augustine of Hippo, Sermons. Isidore of Seville, De Differentis. Bede, De Natura Rerum Anselm, De libero arbitrio.
Mid 12th century, probably England
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=6&ref=Harley_MS_3015
Fully Digitized, British Library: Harley MS 3015

Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
1135, the nunnery at Shaftesbury, England
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=17&ref=Lansdowne_MS_383
Fully Digitized, British Library: Lansdowne MS 383
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/landmanucoll/p/011lan000000383u00057000.html

The Rochester Bible 12th century, England [the cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester]http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=18&ref=Royal_MS_1_c_vii
Fully Digitized, Royal MS 1 C VII, ff 1r-183v)
 
Bede, Prose Life of Cuthbert England, North (Durham).The priory of Durham Cathedral, 1175-1200
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Yates_thompson_MS_26&index=22
Fully Digitized, British Library: Yates Thompson MS 26
f. 9r, Missing miniature, pasted down and lost. Part of a horse’s butt outside of what’s left of a painted frame.

John of Worcester‘s, Chronicle of world and English history,
Worcester Cathedral Priory, written 1128-1140.
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=corpus&manuscript=ms157
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157

Terence's Comedies
St. Albans Abbey, mid 12th century
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msauctf213
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 2.13
 
Opusculum de ratione sperean anonymous Latin compilation on astronomy English, Mid 12th century
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msdigby83
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 83
 
Scenes of the birth of ChristNorth English, third quarter of the 12th century
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/MS.%20Douce%20293/when/12th%20century,%20third%20quarter/?q=LIMIT: ODLodl~29~29,ODLodl~7~7,ODLodl~6~6,ODLodl~14~14,ODLodl~8~8,ODLodl~23~23,ODLodl~1~1,ODLodl~24~24&os=0
Illuminations Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 293

Worksop bestiaryEngland, possibly in Lincoln or York, ca. 1185
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/mslistview.cfm?ACCNO=M.81&StartRow=1.0
Illuminations Digitized, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 81
 
PsalterEngland, perhaps Canterbury, ca. 1180.
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/mslistview.cfm?ACCNO=G.43&StartRow=1.0
Illuminations Digitized, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS G.43


 

 

Bonus:
Some Random Durham Cathedral Charters with bodacious wax seals:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.documents/documents.htm#1100