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Celtic 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
  • Romanesque / Protogothic manuscripts:

  • Martyrdoms of St. Peter & Paul (MS 28)
  • Passionale (MS Harley 624)
  • Collected Manuscripts MS Sloane 1044

    Library or archive where the manuscript kept
    London, British Library
    Catalogue Number (Shelfmark)
    MS Sloane 1044
    Language
    Latin, English
    Script
    miscellaneous (Caroline & Insular minuscule, Protogothic, Gothic)
    Century
    VIII-XVI
    Origin
    miscellaneous (England, France, Germany, etc)
    Official Foliation
    640
    Dimensions
    miscellaneous formats

    This book includes 123 manuscripts written in 8-16 centuries in Muniscule, Protogothic and Gothic scripts. Bible, Gospels, historical texts, medical texts, etc.

    ff. 76-77v: fragments from the end of Joshua and the beginning of Judges; and the end of Judges to the beginning of Ruth. Manuscript created in England in 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century; script Protogothic; dimensions in 525 x 380 (390 x 245) mm in two columns.
    Decoration: 2 large historiated initials in black ink (ff. 76v, 77v). Large letters and initials in red, blue, yellow or green. Another smaller fragment of this manuscript is Sloane 1086, f. 100 (Deut. 34:1-5 and part of Jerome's prologue to Joshua).

     

    Collected Manuscripts MS Sloane 1044 Illustrations

    Illustration 1
    Collected Manuscripts MS Sloane 1044 - Historiated initial letter P with Christ in a roundel blessing soldiers, a devil entwined in the letter form, and animal head terminalsPage (Folio): 76v

    Historiated initial letter P with Christ in a roundel blessing soldiers, a devil entwined in the letter form, and animal head terminals

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