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England (?); Middle 14th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

This particular Book of Hours, a devotional prayer book for the layman, was made for the use of Sarum, the early name for Salisbury, England. This text was accepted throughout…

France; Middle 14th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

In the middle of the 14th century many of the manuscripts show influences from other countries. Illuminators, scribes, and other craftsmen traveled from city to city and even from…

Germany (Würzburg); Early 14th Century. Latin Text; Gothic Script; Transitional Early Gothic Notation.

The Missal has been for many centuries one of the most important liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains all the directions,…

Flanders; Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

Small Psalters of this period are comparatively rare, since Psalters were used primarily in the church services and not by the layman. Here, the letters and ornament still retain…

Italy; Early 14th Century. Latin Text; Transitional Rotunda Script.

At this period, the St. Jerome Bible was not transcribed as often as one would expect in the country of its origin and the very land which held the seat of the Roman Church.…

France; Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

The Breviary is one of the six official books used by the Roman Catholic Church in its liturgy. It is a book of prayer for the clergy, giving the directions for all of the various…

England; Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

Illuminated Psalters occur as early as the 8th century, and from the 9th to the beginning of the 14th century they predominate among illuminated manuscripts. About 1220 A.D., portable…

France (Beauvais); Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Transitional Gothic Script.

This manuscript, a special gift to a church in the city of Beauvais, was written for Robert de Hangest, a canon, about 1285 A.D. At that time, Beauvais was one of the…

France; Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script

This copy of the Latin version by St. Jerome was made during the period when France stood at the height of her medieval glory. A decade or two before, Louis IX (Saint Louis), the…

England (Oxford); Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

It is usually difficult to dinstinguish the miniature or portable Bibles made by the young Dominican friars in England from those written in France. At times the colophon…