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Detail of an allegorical miniature of a bush of the Tudor rose incorporating a Latin poem celebrating the House of Tudor, with a scroll reading 'Salve, radix varios producens germine ramos, / Quos inter ramus s More

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Purchase note. Image taken from f. 161v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 157v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 145 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Ownership inscription of Mordechai Ottolenghi and Raphael Hayyim Ottolenghi. Image taken from f. 151v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. More

Text page containing many Latin proverbs and, at the bottom, a Middle English poem added by William Wey, beginning 'Lyke as women have facis'. Image taken from f. 45v of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a More

Detail: a stork is standing on the back of a dog, at a poem for ~Shavuot~ (Festival of Weeks) (for the poem, see Davidson vol. 1, no. 7694). Image taken from f. 341 of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) for the Sp More

The front pastedown of the manuscript, containing many fragments of verse and proverbs in Middle English and Latin. Image taken from f. i verso of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a Latin herbal, excerpt f More

Fifteenth-century Italian white parchment binding, coloured and gold-tooled framing bands. Image taken from back binding of Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah'). W More

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 158 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Keywords of a ~piyyut~ (liturgical poem) for Passover included into two vertical bands with penwork decoration. Image taken from f. 28v of Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brothe More

Text page containing two Middle English poems, one beginning 'Whan I wold fayne begynne to pleyne' and the second beginning 'A lady bry[g]t fayre & gay'. Image taken from f. 115v of Miscellany, including Omnipo More

Text page containing verse and proverbs in Latin and English. Image taken from f. 1 of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a Latin herbal, excerpt from a Latin lapidary, Secretum, poem addressed to William Wa More

Text page with Sephardi punctuated square script. Image taken from f. 153 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 154 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

The text of the Passover thanksgiving hymn ~Dayyenu~ (It would have been enough) flanked by two vertical bands. The bands include keywwords of the hymn, ~ilu~ (if) ~we-lo~ (without). Image taken from f. 16 of H More

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Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script and with a censor's inscription. Image taken from f. 160 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic r More

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 145v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 147 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

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Zodiac signs of Leo (~Arie~) and Virgo (~Betulah~) in medallions, accompanying a liturgical poem (~piyyut~) for the Prayer for dew during Passover. Image taken from f. 154v of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) fo More

Text page containing the beginning of a poem addressed to William Waynflete (b. c. 1400, d. 1486). Image taken from f. 22v of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a Latin herbal, excerpt from a Latin lapidary, More

Zodiac signs of Taurus (~Shor~) and of Gemini (~teomim~) in medallions, accompanying a liturgical poem (~piyyut~) for the Prayer for dew during Passover. Image taken from f. 153v of Festival prayer book (~mahzo More

Text page containing a series of Middle Engish verse proverbs, arranged alphabetically, copied by Thomas Dackomb. Image taken from f. 59 of Miscellany, including a poem on the wickedness of the world, series of More

Text page in Sephardi square script, with the text from Psalm 115. Image taken from f. 72v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 148v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 157 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 159v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

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Fifteenth-century Italian white parchment binding, coloured and gold-tooled framing bands. Image taken from Upper binding of Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah'). More

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Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 159 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 153v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 156v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page containing the end of the 'Short Charter of Christ' and a Middle English poem beginning 'Behold man what thou art'. Image taken from f. 115 of Miscellany, including Omnipotentem semper adorant, Lord w More

Detail: zodiac signs of Leo (~Arie~) and Virgo (~Betulah~) in medallions, accompanying a liturgical poem (~piyyut~) for the Prayer for dew during Passover. Image taken from f. 154v of Festival prayer book (~mah More

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Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 148 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 146 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 155 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

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Text pages with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from ff. 155, 156v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated square script. Image taken from f. 152v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 158v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page, at the passage starting with 'This matzah which we eat'. Image taken from f. 61v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Zodiac sign of Sagittarius (~Qeshet~) and Pisces (~Dagim~) in medallions, accompanying a liturgical poem (~piyyut~) for the Prayer for dew during Passover. Image taken from f. 155v of Festival prayer book (~mah More

Text page containing an added fragment of Middle English verse beginning 'In ever same maden' and an added poem on the wickedness of the world beginning 'Complayne we maye miche ys amise'. Image taken from f. 5 More

Text page containing the end of a Latin prose text about a comet described by 'Clerkys of Oxenforde', and a Middle English poem added by William Wey, beginning 'Remember that there be in hell'. Image taken from More

Text pages with punctuated Sephardi semi-cursive script. Image taken from ff. 139v-140 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

A double opening with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from ff. 155v-156 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 144 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Zodiac sign of Aries (~Taleh~) in a medallion, accompanying a liturgical poem (~piyyut~) for the Prayer for dew during Passover. Image taken from f. 153 of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) for the Special Shabba More

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 150 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 147v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page containing the end of a Middle English verse translation of a Latin text on the transitory world. Image taken from f. 53v of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a Latin herbal, excerpt from a Latin More

Text page containing the beginning of a Middle English verse sermon on Psalm 23:3-4, beginning 'Lystenythe a while and thenke ye nott longe'. Image taken from f. 54 of Miscellany, including an excerpt from a La More

Decorated words at the beginning and at the end of the lines, at the poem ~Dayyenu~ (we should have been content). Image taken from f. 42 of Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah''). Written in Hebrew.

Text page in Sephardi square script, at a passage from ~Lefikakh~ ('Therefore we are bound to thank'). Image taken from f. 65 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Hag More

Text page containing five Middle English poems, beginning 'Why dare I not compleyn', 'O rote of trouthe', 'Fortune unfrendly þu art', 'Soo put in fere', and 'That was my woo'. Image taken from f. 116v of Miscel More

Text page containing the end of a Latin poem on the transitory world, and the opening of its Middle English verse translation, which begins 'Lorde wherto ys this worlde soo gaye '. Image taken from f. 53 of Mis More

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 151 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 150v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated square script. Image taken from f. 152 of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with punctuated Sephardi square script. Image taken from f. 154v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

Text page with Sephardi punctuated semi-cursive script. Image taken from f. 144v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.

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Penwork initial 'E'(t) with foliate decoration. Image taken from f. 147 of Theological miscellany, including Meditations, prayers and letters; Poem on the ceremonial of the Mass; Sermons; theological works; ca More

Calendar with saints and table to calculate the date of Easter. Image taken from f. 10v of Theological miscellany, including Meditations, prayers and letters; Poem on the ceremonial of the Mass; Sermons; theol More

Miniature of a lady Jeunesse presenting the author to lord Bel Accueil and lady Plaisance and their court, with a full border with two mottos, 'La plus eure' and 'Dieu et mon droit', the arms of Edward the Conf More

Roundels of popes and rulers. Image taken from f. 75v-76 of A 'history of events', imperfect (ff. 1-92v); ruled folios with added sketches (ff. 93-100v); and a poem on astronomy, astrology, and geography (ff. 1 More

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Detail of a miniature of a chessboard. Image taken from f. 44 of Moral treatises, poems, prayers and hymns, including the Moralised Game of Chess (ff. 1-51), the tale of Melibeus (ff. 52-65v), a French translat More

Coloured drawing of God standing before ?Adam. Image taken from f. 2 of Passion poem. Written in Cornish. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library i More

Detail of a miniature of Melibee and Prudence. Image taken from f. 52 of Moral treatises, poems, prayers and hymns, including the Moralised Game of Chess (ff. 1-51), the tale of Melibeus (ff. 52-65v), a French More

Detail of a miniature of Jean de Meun writing the opening words of his poem (which begins on f. 28), in the Roman de la Rose. Image taken from f. 69v of Roman de la Rose. Written in French. Henry Yates Thompso More

Detail of a miniature of two men riding. Image taken from f. 18v of Moral treatises, poems, prayers and hymns, including the Moralised Game of Chess (ff. 1-51), the tale of Melibeus (ff. 52-65v), a French trans More

Detail of a miniature of a physician with a book and a box. Image taken from f. 34 of Moral treatises, poems, prayers and hymns, including the Moralised Game of Chess (ff. 1-51), the tale of Melibeus (ff. 52-65 More

Miniature of a standing man and woman in a garden. Image taken from f. 2v of The romance poem 'Roberte the Devyll'. Written in English. The Egerton Manuscript Collection is named after its founder, Sir Thomas More

Detail of the red rose of Lancaster, with a hound and dragon, in the lower margin of the folio. Image taken from f. 137 of Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gou More

Upper cover of crimson velvet with the royal arms (between H. H.) and roses embroidered in coloured silks, gold-thread and seed-pearls. Image taken from Upper cover of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'T More

Detail of a miniature of an innkeeper with a pot of wine, welcoming guests. Image taken from f. 37 of Moral treatises, poems, prayers and hymns, including the Moralised Game of Chess (ff. 1-51), the tale of Mel More

Marginal miniature of Geoffrey Chaucer pointing the text, with a caption reading 'Chauceris ymago'. Image taken from f. 93v of The Regement of Princes, with other poems. Written in English. The BL Royal Manusc More

Beginning of the main text, in gold and dark ink, with illuminated initials. Image taken from f. 4 of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, et choses memorabl More

Full-page miniature of the arms of France and England and a dedicatory letter addressed to Henry VIII. Image taken from ff. 1v-2 of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample description de toute la Ter More

Full-page miniature, upper register: the slaughter and the preparation of the Passover lamb, smearing the posts of the doorway with blood (Ex. 12:22), lower register: two couples by spread Seder tables raising More

Detail of a miniature of the royal arms. Image taken from f. 1v of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, et choses memorables faictes en plusieurs lieux et vi More

Illuminated initials at the beginning of entries for Bethoron, Bethsamis, and Bala. Image taken from ff. 24v-25 of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, et ch More

Champ' initials with foliate feathering and paraph with pen-flourishing in the Fifteen Oes of St Bridget. Image taken from f. 110 of Collection of 45 minor poems including 'The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton More

Coloured initials. Image taken from f. 10 of Miscellany of prose and verse, including Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London breaking off in 1470; More

Detail of a grasshopper, from the full strew border at the lower margin of the folio. Image taken from f. 3v of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, et chose More

Block of text in gold on a red ground, with a full strew border, including flowers, vines, a dragonfly, an owl, and a grasshopper. Image taken from f. 3v of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'Tresample de More

Detail of a miniature representing the bitter herb (~maror~): a couple is seated at a spread Seder table with the husband pointing to his wife. This motif refers to a pun meaning that for the husband his wife i More

Full-page miniature, upper register: the plague of wild beasts (~arov~), lower register: the plague of pestilence. The meaning of the Hebrew word, ~arov~, by which the fourth plague is described (E. 8:21) is n More

Upper cover of crimson velvet with the royal arms (between H. H.) and roses embroidered in coloured silks, gold-thread and seed-pearls. Image taken from Upper cover of Description of the Holy Land, entitled, 'T More