Celtic / Insular Illuminated Manuscripts:Book of Kells
Book of Armagh
Book of Cerne
Book of Deer
Book of Dimma
Book of Durrow
Book of Mulling
Cathach of St. Columba
Durham Gospels
Hereford Gospels
Lichfield Gospels
Lindisfarne Gospels
Carolingian Manuscripts:Ebbo Gospels
Echternach Gospels
Sacramentary of Gellone
Romanesque / Protogothic manuscripts:
Martyrdoms of St. Peter & Paul (MS 28)
Passionale (MS Harley 624)
Gothic manuscripts:
Bestiary (MS Sloane 3544)
Miscellaneous manuscripts:
| Passionale (MS Harley 624)Library or archive where the manuscript kept London, British LibraryCatalogue Number (Shelfmark) MS Harley 624Language LatinScript Protogothic | Century XIIOrigin EnglandOfficial Foliation 316Dimensions 375 x 240 |
Manuscripts inclided two parts (original text written in 12 centure and later inclusions):
1) "Passionale (Lives of the Saints)" (ff. 84-143v), created in Canterbury (England) in 1st half of the 12th century.
Decorations: Large initial in colours and gold with foliate decoration, faces and hybrids (f. 115). Large historiated initials in colours (ff. 94, 132, 134v). Large initials in colours with foliate decoration, many also zoomorphic or inhabited with heads, men, animals, and/ or hybrids (ff. 84v, 89v, 93v, 100, 101v, 103v, 104v, 106v, 107v, 108v, 112, 112v, 113v, 114v, 120, 121, 126, 128v, 137, 140, 141v). Large initial in yellow with penwork decoration in red and green (f. 111). Large initials in green, yellow, blue, or red, some with reserved white lines or simple penwork decoration. Rubrics in red.
2) Historica monumenta diversa (ff. 2-18v), Chronica monasterii de Pipwell (ff. 21-35v), etc., added by Sir Simonds D'Ewes c. 1639-1643 in England
Decoration: Coloured drawings (ff. 145, 146v, 147). Large initial in colours and gold with a coat of arms including Simonds D'Ewes' arms and a sun (f. 4). Large initial in gold with flowers (f. 22), Coloured initials and display script in blue, red, yellow or green. T-map in pink ink (f. 42v). Passionale (MS Harley 624) IllustrationsIllustration 1  | Page (Folio): 89v initial letter U with foliate decoration | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 2  | Page (Folio): 93v Zoomorphic initial letter O with fish, faces, animal heads and hybrid creatures | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 3  | Page (Folio): 94 Historiated initial letter I with heads of saints | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 4  | Page (Folio): 101v Decorated initial lettr Q with foliate decoration and a dragon | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 5  | Page (Folio): 104v initial letter R with foliated decoration and dragons | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 6  | Page (Folio): 106v historiated initial letter T with hybrids, a portrait bust (emperor Julian or his minister?), and mask | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 7  | Page (Folio): 108v Historiated initial letter N with a figure brandishing an axe to strike a calf, a female figure to the right, a dog, masks and hybrid creatures | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 8  | Page (Folio): 111 decorated initial letter M | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 9  | Page (Folio): 112v initial letetr E with foliate decoration and a mask | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 10  | Page (Folio): 115 inhabited initial letter B with heads and hybrid creatures wrestling | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 11  | Page (Folio): 128v Decorated initial letter F with hybrid creatures and foliate decoration | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 12  | Page (Folio): 134v Detail of historiated initial letter T with Michael the Archangel, who holds the scales to weigh the souls at the Last Judgement and spears a dragon below his feet | Vector Clipart  |
Illustration 13  | Page (Folio): 240 decorated initial letter I with geometric and foliate motifs | Vector Clipart  |
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