![]() ![]() 15v and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 1558), queen of England and Ireland: presented to her (see inscription above) her badge of a pomegranate on the cover, with Tudor badges of a portcullis, fleur-de-lis, and a lion and a dragon engraved on the clasps of the binding. Seized by customs officials in October 1553 and presented by the Customs Officer Baldwin Smith to Queen Mary Tudor: inscribed 'hunc librum nautis ad exteros transvehendum datu: / spectatus et honestus vir baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigalibus retraxit atq Mariae illustrissi/mae angliae, ffranciae, et hiberniae Reginae donavit, / mense Octobri, Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo / quinquagesimo tertio, Regni sui primo' (f. 1563), courtier and soldier, arrested at the accession of Queen Mary in 1553: inscribed, 'This boke was sume tyme, and it was his wil / that it shulde by successioun all way / go to the or to / (f. Thomas Becket in gold erased in the calendar. 1327), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: Edward the Confessor is included in gold in the calendar (f. ![]() 1358), queen of England, consort of Edward II: perhaps made for her (see discussion Smith 1993 and Stanton 19), or Edward II (b. Rebound in 1912 reusing embroidered boards with gilt metalwork bosses and fittings for clasps of c. i + 319 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end 1 blank leaf after f. Line-fillers in rose, blue, and gold with penwork decoration in white.įf. Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Foliate initials in gold and colours with marginal extensions. 464 bas-de-page scenes in tinted drawing (ff. 23 historiated initials in colours and gold with foliated extensions, at the beginning of the major text divisions. 87 half- or full-page miniatures in colours and gold of the life of Christ, some on burnished or tooled grounds, in Psalms, and 13 miniatures in colours and gold of Saints, in the Litany (ff. 12 miniatures in colours and gold of the Labours of the Months and 12 miniatures in colours and gold of the Signs of Zodiac, in the calendar (ff. 1v-66v) and 4 miniatures in colours and gold of the tree of Jesse, Ancestors of Christ, and Apostles and Prophets (ff. Gothic (Textualis prescissa (calendar and Psalter) and Textualis rotunda (prefatory cycle captions))Ģ23 prefatory miniatures in colours, in tinted drawing, generally two per page, of the Old Testament cycle with Anglo-Norman explanatory verses (ff. England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?)
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