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Detailed record for Royal 2 B VII

Title Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')
Origin England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?)
Date between 1310 and 1320
Language Latin, with French image captions
Script Gothic (Textualis prescissa (calendar and Psalter) and Textualis rotunda (prefatory cycle captions))
Artists Queen Mary Master
Decoration 223 prefatory miniatures in colours, in tinted drawing, generally two per page, of the Old Testamebt cycle with Anglo-Norman explanatory verses (ff. 1v-66v) and 4 miniatures in colours and gold of the tree of Jesse, Ancestors of Christ, and Apostles and Prophets (ff. 67v-70). 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. 71v-83). 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. 304-310). 23 historiated initials in colours and gold with foliated extensions, at the beginning of the major text divisions. 464 bas-de-page scenes in tinted drawing (ff. 85v-318). Foliate initials in gold and colours with marginal extensions. Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Line-fillers in rose, blue, and gold with penwork decoration in white.
Dimensions in mm 275 x 175 (175 x 115)
Official foliation ff. 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. 232; ff. i, 319 are medieval parchment flyleaves)
Form Parchment codex
Binding Post-1600. Rebound in 1912 reusing embroidered boards with gilt metalwork bosses and fittings for clasps of c. 1553-1558; gilt edges.
Provenance Isabella [Isabella of France] (b. 1295, d. 1358), queen of England, consort of Edward II: perhaps made for her (see discussion Smith 1993 and Stanton 1996 and 2003), or Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon] (b. 1284, d. 1327), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: Edward the Confessor is included in gold in the calendar (f. 80v).
Thomas Becket in gold erased in the calendar.
Henry Manners, 2nd earl of Rutland (b. 1526, b. 1563), courtier and soldier, arrested at the accession of Queen Mary in 1553: inscribed, 'This boke was sume tyme [under erasure: the Erle of Rutelands], and it was his wil / that it shulde by successioun all way / go to the [under erasure: lande of Ruteland] or to / [partially erased: him that linyally succedis by reson / of inheritaunce in the seide lande'] (f. 84).
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[m]: / spectatus et honestus vir baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigalibus retraxit atq[ue] Mariae illustrissi/mae angliae, ffranciae, et hiberniae Reginae donavit, / mense Octobri, Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo / quinquagesimo tertio, Regni sui primo' (f. 319v).
Mary I (b. 1516, d. 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.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 15v; and in the 1697 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), no. 7768).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
Notes Includes 150 Psalms (ff. 85-280) with a calendar of Sarum use (ff. 71v-83), canticles (ff. 280v-302) and litany (ff. 302v-318).
Catchwords and quire signatures.
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Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1965, a facsimile of the edition of 1906-09), III, p. 373.

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 221-23, pls 31-32.

G. Warner, Queen Mary's Psalter: Miniatures and Drawings by an English Artist of the 14th Century, Reproduced from Royal MS. 2 B. VII in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1912) [partial facsimile, reproducing all pictorial material].

Robert Steele, 'Dies Aegyptiaci', Proceedings of the Royal Society of medicine, 13 (1919) 108-21 (p. 116).

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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 42-47.

[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 3, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1925), pl. 20-22.

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C. Nordenfalk, 'En Medeltida Bonbok fran Metz I Linkopings Stifts- och Landsbibliotek', Linkopings Biblioteks Handlingar, N.W. 4 (1953), 65-88 (p. 88).

Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 139, 142, 148, 156, 162, 166, pl. 123.

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Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), pp. 181, 377 n. 8, 380 n. 18.

M.W. Evans, Medieval Drawings (London: Hamlyn, 1969), no. 110.

Francis Klingender, Animals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle Ages, ed. by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), pp. 413, 418-19, 423, pls 244, 253, 259.

O. S. Pickering, 'Some Similiarities between the Queen Mary Psalter and the Northern Passion', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 35 (1972), 135-44 (pls 17-19).

Millard Meiss, with Sharon Off Dunlap Smith and Elizabeth Home Beaton, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), pp. 185, 446 n. 41, figs 684, 686.

Mary Remnant, 'The Gittern in English Art', The Galpin Society Journal, 17 (1976), 104-09 (pp. 105, 108).

D. H. Turner, 'The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion', The British Library Journal, 2 (1976), 8-26 (p. 22)

Sarah M. Morrall, 'A Schippe Behoues Þe to Dight: Woven Arches of Noah in the Fourteenth Century', Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa, 48 (1978), 202-09 (pp. 204, 205, fig. 1).

François Avril, L'enluminure à l'époque gothique 1200-1420 (n. pl.: Bibliotheque de l'image, 1979), p. 94.

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 37.

W. B. Yapp, 'The Birds of English Medieval Manuscripts', Journal of Medieval History, 5 (1979) 315-48 (pp. 335, 335, 346).

J. J. G. Alexander, 'Painting and Manuscript Illumination for Royal Patrons in the Later Middle Ages', in English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages, ed. by V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne (London: Duckworth, 1983), 141-62 (p. 142).

Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), II: 1250-1285, p. 111.

Lucy Freeman Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 5 (London: Harvey Miller, 1986), I, no. 56.

Lynda Dennison, 'An Illuminator of the Queen Mary Psalter Group: The Ancient 6 Master', Antiquaries Journal, 66 (1986), 287-314.

Michael Camille, 'Labouring for the Lord: The Ploughman and the Social Order in the Luttrell Psalter', Art History, 10 (1987), 423-54 (pp. 447-48, il. 17).

The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), p. 28, figs 6-7 [exhibition catalogue].

François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), pp. 142, 143, 145.

Christopher Norton, David Park, and Paul Binski, Dominican Painting in East Anglia: The Thornham Parva Retable and the Musée de Cluny Frontal (Woodbridge: Boydell: 1987), p. 79.

Michael A. Michael, 'Oxford, Cambridge and London: Towards a Theory for 'Grouping' Gothic Manuscripts', Burlington Magazine 130 (1988), 107-15 (pp. 107, 19, 112, 113, 114).

Linda Brownrigg, 'The Taymouth Hours and the Romance of Beves of Hampton', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 1 (1989), 222-41 (p. 223).

Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot, 'Christian Interpretation of the Zodiac in Medieval Psalters', Umeni, 37 (1989), 97-111 (pp. 106 ns 6, 7, 8, 9, 107, ns. 15, 16, 25, 108, ns 35, 53).

Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 28.

Claire Donovan, 'The Mise-en-Page of Early Books of Hours in England', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp 147-61 (p. 161 n. 36).

Dora Faraci, Il bestiario medio inglese (Ms Arundel 292 della British Library) (Rome: Japadre, 1990), p. 258.

Ann Payne, Medieval Beasts (London: British Library, 1990), p. 16.

A. Rudloff Stanton, 'The Queen Mary Psalter: Narrative and Devotion in Gothic England' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Texas, 1992).

Janet Backhouse, 'Sir Robert Cotton's Record of a Royal Bookshelf', The British Library Journal, 18 (1992), 44-51 (p. 50, n. 8).

Kathryn A. Smith, 'History, Typology and Homily: the Joseph Cycle in the Queen Mary Psalter', Gesta, 32 (1993), 147-59 (figs 1, 5-8).

Eberhard König, 'Die Très Balles Heures de Notre-Dame, eine datierte Handschrift aus der Zeit nach 1404', in Flanders in a European Perspective: Manuscript Illumination around 1400 in Flanders and Abroad, ed. by Maurits Smeyers and Bert Cardon (Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1995), pl. 6, p. 54.

Debra Hassig, Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 187.

Anne Rudloff Stanton, 'Notes on the Codicology of the Queen Mary Psalter' Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 48 (1995), 250-62.

Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, pp. 63-64.

Anne Rudloff Stanton, 'La Genealogye Comence: Kinship and Difference in the Queen Mary Psalter', Studies in Iconography, 17 (1996), 177-214.

Anne Rudloff Stanton, 'From Eve to Bathsheba and Beyond: Motherhood in the Queen Mary Psatler', in Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, ed. by J. H. M. Taylor and L. Smith (Toronto, 1996), pp.172-89 (figs 73-82).

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 88.

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Front cover of the binding

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Front cover of the binding
Back cover

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Back cover
God and Lucifer

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God and Lucifer
 
Creation of the animals

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Creation of the animals
Creation of fishes

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Creation of fishes
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
 
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
Temptation of Adam and Eve

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Temptation of Adam and Eve
 
Temptation of Adam and Eve

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Temptation of Adam and Eve
God

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God
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
 
The Expulsion

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The Expulsion
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
The Expulsion

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The Expulsion
 
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve

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Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel

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Cain and Abel
 
Cain killing Abel

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Cain killing Abel
Cain killing Abel

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Cain killing Abel
Cain killing Abel

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Cain killing Abel
 
Cain

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Cain
Noah

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Noah
Noah

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Noah
 
Noah

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Noah
Noah

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Noah
Noah and the ark

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Noah and the ark
 
Thare and Abraham

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Thare and Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
 
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
 
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
 
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
 
Abraham and Hagar

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Abraham and Hagar
Hagar

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Hagar
Hagar

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Hagar
 
Hagar

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Hagar
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
 
Abraham and Sarah

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Abraham and Sarah
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
 
Abraham

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Abraham
Sacrifice of Abraham

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Sacrifice of Abraham
Abraham and Isaac

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Abraham and Isaac
 
Sacrifice of Abraham

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Sacrifice of Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
Abraham

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Abraham
 
Rebecca

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Rebecca
Rebecca and Isaac

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Rebecca and Isaac
Rebecca and Isaac

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Rebecca and Isaac
 
Esau and Jacob

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Esau and Jacob
Jacob and Esau

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Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau

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Jacob and Esau
 
Jacob

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Jacob
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
King of Egypt

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King of Egypt
 
Joseph and the wife of Potiphar

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Joseph and the wife of Potiphar
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
King of Egypt

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King of Egypt
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph and Jacob

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Joseph and Jacob
 
Joseph and Jacob

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Joseph and Jacob
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph's brothers

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Joseph's brothers
 
Joseph's brothers

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Joseph's brothers
Joseph's brothers

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Joseph's brothers
Joseph

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Joseph
 
Joseph

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Joseph
Joseph

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Joseph
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
 
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
 
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
Jacob and Joseph

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Jacob and Joseph
Birth of Moses

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Birth of Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
Moses

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Moses
 
Moses and Joshua

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Moses and Joshua
Moses and Joshua

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Moses and Joshua
Death of Moses

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Death of Moses
 
Joshua

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Joshua
Joshua

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Joshua
Rehab

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Rehab
 
Joshua

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Joshua
Joshua

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Joshua
Acor

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Acor
 
Acor

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Acor
Acor

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Acor
Joshua

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Joshua
 
Joshua

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Joshua
Joshua

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Joshua
Judah

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Judah
 
Judah

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Judah
Judah

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Judah
Tribes of Judah and Simeon

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Tribes of Judah and Simeon
 
Deborah

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Deborah
Eliud and Deborah

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Eliud and Deborah
Eliud

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Eliud
 
Sisera and Deborah

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Sisera and Deborah
Sissera and Jael

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Sissera and Jael
Joash

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Joash
 
Gideon

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Gideon
Gideon

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Gideon
Gideon

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Gideon
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Zebah and Zalumna

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Zebah and Zalumna
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Abimelech

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Abimelech
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
 
Jerubbaal

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Jerubbaal
Abimelech

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Abimelech
Abimelech

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Abimelech
 
Coronation of Abimelech

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Coronation of Abimelech
Abimelech

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Abimelech
Abimelech

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Abimelech
 
Coronation of Gaal

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Coronation of Gaal
Abimelech

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Abimelech
Abimelech

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Abimelech
 
Abimelech

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Abimelech
Jepthah

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Jepthah
Jepthah

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Jepthah
 
Jepthah

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Jepthah
Jepthah

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Jepthah
Jepthah

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Jepthah
 
Jepthah

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Jepthah
Samson

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Samson
Samson

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Samson
 
Samson

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Samson
Samson

f. 43
Samson
Samson

f. 43
Samson
 
Samson

f. 43
Samson
Samson

f. 43v
Samson
Samson

f. 43v
Samson
 
Samson

f. 43v
Samson
Samson

f. 44
Samson
Samson

f. 44
Samson
 
Samson

f. 44
Samson
Samson

f. 44v
Samson
Samson

f. 44v
Samson
 
Samson

f. 44v
Samson
Samson

f. 45
Samson
Samson

f. 45
Samson
 
Samson

f. 45
Samson
Samson

f. 45v
Samson
Samson

f. 45v
Samson
 
Samson

f. 45v
Samson
Samson

f. 46
Samson
Samson

f. 46
Samson
 
Samson

f. 46
Samson
Samson

f. 46
Samson
Samson

f. 46v
Samson
 
Samson

f. 46v
Samson
Elimelech

f. 47
Elimelech
Elimelech

f. 47
Elimelech
 
Elimelech

f. 47
Elimelech
Naomi and Ruth

f. 47v
Naomi and Ruth
Naomi and Ruth

f. 47v
Naomi and Ruth
 
Naomi and Ruth

f. 47v
Naomi and Ruth
Elkanah and Samuel

f. 48
Elkanah and Samuel
Elkanah

f. 48
Elkanah
 
Samuel

f. 48
Samuel
Hannah and Eli

f. 48v
Hannah and Eli
Hannah

f. 48v
Hannah
 
Eli

f. 48v
Eli
Samuel

f. 49
Samuel
Samuel

f. 49
Samuel
 
Ark

f. 49
Ark
Eli and Samuel

f. 49v
Eli and Samuel
Death of Eli

f. 49v
Death of Eli
 
Samuel

f. 49v
Samuel
Samuel and Saul

f. 50
Samuel and Saul
Samuel

f. 50
Samuel
 
Saul

f. 50
Saul
Saul

f. 50v
Saul
Saul

f. 50v
Saul
 
Saul

f. 50v
Saul
Death of Absalom

f. 50v
Death of Absalom
Jonathan and David

f. 51
Jonathan and David
 
Jonathon

f. 51
Jonathon
David

f. 51
David
David

f. 51v
David
 
David

f. 51v
David
David

f. 51v
David
David and Saul

f. 52
David and Saul
 
David

f. 52
David
Saul

f. 52
Saul
David and Saul

f. 52v
David and Saul
 
David and Saul

f. 52v
David and Saul
David and Saul

f. 52v
David and Saul
Samuel and Saul

f. 53
Samuel and Saul
 
Samuel

f. 53
Samuel
Saul

f. 53
Saul
David

f. 53v
David
 
David

f. 53v
David
David

f. 53v
David
Abner

f. 54
Abner
 
Abner

f. 54
Abner
Abner

f. 54
Abner
David and Abner

f. 54v
David and Abner
 
Death of Ishbosheth

f. 55
Death of Ishbosheth
Death of Ishbosheth

f. 55
Death of Ishbosheth
Death of Ishbosheth

f. 55
Death of Ishbosheth
 
David

f. 55v
David
David

f. 56
David
Jerusalem

f. 56
Jerusalem
 
David

f. 56
David
David

f. 56v
David
David

f. 56v
David
 
David

f. 56v
David
David and Bathsheba

f. 57
David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba

f. 57
David and Bathsheba
 
David and Uriah

f. 57
David and Uriah
David and Uriah

f. 57v
David and Uriah
David and Uriah

f. 57v
David and Uriah
 
David and Uriah

f. 57v
David and Uriah
Amnon and Tamar

f. 58
Amnon and Tamar
Nathan and Amnon

f. 58
Nathan and Amnon
 
Nathan and David

f. 58
Nathan and David
Amnon and Tamar

f. 58
Amnon and Tamar
Amnon

f. 58v
Amnon
 
Amnon

f. 58v
Amnon
David

f. 58v
David
Absalom and David

f. 59
Absalom and David
 
Absalom and David

f. 59
Absalom and David
Absalom and David

f. 59
Absalom and David
Absalom and David

f. 59v
Absalom and David
 
Absalom and David

f. 59v
Absalom and David
Absalom and David

f. 59v
Absalom and David
Ahithopel and Absalom

f. 60
Ahithopel and Absalom
 
Ahithopel

f. 60
Ahithopel
Absalom defeated

f. 60
Absalom defeated
Death of Absalom

f. 60v
Death of Absalom
 
Death of Absalom

f. 60v
Death of Absalom
David

f. 61
David
David

f. 61
David
 
David

f. 61
David
David

f. 61v
David
David

f. 61v
David
 
Hanging

f. 61v
Hanging
Joab and David

f. 62
Joab and David
Joab

f. 62
Joab
 
David praying

f. 62
David praying
David

f. 62v
David
David

f. 62v
David
 
Pestilence

f. 62v
Pestilence
David

f. 63
David
David

f. 63
David
 
David

f. 63
David
Adonijah's feast

f. 63v
Adonijah's feast
Adonijah's feast

f. 63v
Adonijah's feast
 
David and Bathsheba

f. 63v
David and Bathsheba
Anointing of Solomon

f. 64
Anointing of Solomon
Anointing of Solomon

f. 64
Anointing of Solomon
 
Anointing of Solomon

f. 64
Anointing of Solomon
Death of David

f. 64v
Death of David
Tree of Jesse

f. 67v
Tree of Jesse
 
June

f. 76
June
Gemini

f. 76
Gemini
Men scything grass

f. 76v
Men scything grass
 
August

f. 78v
August
Men harvesting wheat

f. 78v
Men harvesting wheat
August

f. 78v
August
 
October

f. 80v
October
Men sowing

f. 80v
Men sowing
Fox

f. 99v
Fox
 
Fox

f. 100
Fox
Elephant and unicorn

f. 101v
Elephant and unicorn
Beast

f. 102v
Beast
 
Ship

f. 111
Ship
Sailors and a whale.

f. 112
Sailors and a whale.
Stag and a serpent

f. 116
Stag and a serpent
 
Wolf

f. 122
Wolf
Tiger

f. 122v
Tiger
The Magi before Herod

f. 131
The Magi before Herod
 
Knights

f. 131v
Knights
Massacre of the Innocents

f. 132
Massacre of the Innocents
Bull and dogs

f. 144v
Bull and dogs
 
Boar

f. 145
Boar
Knight and a Saracen

f. 149v
Knight and a Saracen
Knight and a Saracen

f. 150
Knight and a Saracen
 
Christ among the doctors; hunting scene

f. 151
Christ among the doctors; hunting scene
Christ among the doctors; hunting scene

f. 151
Christ among the doctors; hunting scene
Hunting scene

f. 152
Hunting scene
 
Hunting scene

f. 152v
Hunting scene
Hunting scene

f. 153
Hunting scene
Hunting scene

f. 153v
Hunting scene
 
Hunting scene

f. 154
Hunting scene
Hunting scene

f. 156
Hunting scene
Knights

f. 159
Knights
 
Three men playing

f. 162
Three men playing
Archers

f. 162v
Archers
Man fighting a dragon

f. 163
Man fighting a dragon
 
Boys with a top

f. 164
Boys with a top
Men threshing corn

f. 165v
Men threshing corn
Bob-cherry

f. 166v
Bob-cherry
 
Club-kayles game

f. 167
Club-kayles game
Knucklebones game

f. 167v
Knucklebones game
Men wrestling

f. 168
Men wrestling
 
Marriage at Cana

f. 168v
Marriage at Cana
Musicians

f. 174
Musicians
Monks and nuns

f. 176v
Monks and nuns
 
Monk and nun playing instruments

f. 177
Monk and nun playing instruments
Women with tambourines

f. 182
Women with tambourines
Baptism of Christ

f. 190v
Baptism of Christ
 
Four men

f. 196v
Four men
Women tilting

f. 197v
Women tilting
Chess

f. 198v
Chess
 
Men and women

f. 200
Men and women
Theophilus

f. 205
Theophilus
Theophilus

f. 205
Theophilus
 
Christ and Martha

f. 210v
Christ and Martha
Two nuns

f. 219v
Two nuns
Virgin Mary

f. 231
Virgin Mary
 
Entry into Jerusalem

f. 233v
Entry into Jerusalem
Entry into Jerusalem

f. 233v
Entry into Jerusalem
Trinity

f. 233v
Trinity
 
Stephen

f. 233v
Stephen
Simon and Jude

f. 273v
Simon and Jude
Simon and Jude

f. 273v
Simon and Jude
 
Mother of Thomas of Canterbury

f. 288v
Mother of Thomas of Canterbury
The mother of Thomas of Canterbury

f. 289
The mother of Thomas of Canterbury
Marriage of Thomas's parents

f. 289v
Marriage of Thomas's parents
 
Thomas Becket

f. 290v
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 291
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 291
Thomas Becket
 
Thomas Becket

f. 291v
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 292
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 292v
Thomas Becket
 
Thomas Becket

f. 295v
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 296
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 296v
Thomas Becket
 
Annunciation

f. 296v
Annunciation
Thomas Becket

f. 296v
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 297
Thomas Becket
 
Thomas Becket

f. 297v
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 298
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

f. 298v
Thomas Becket
 
Thomas Becket

f. 299
Thomas Becket
Margaret

f. 313v
Margaret
Margaret

f. 313v
Margaret
 
Nicholas

f. 314
Nicholas
Margaret

f. 314
Margaret
Nativity of Nicholas

f. 314v
Nativity of Nicholas
 
Nicholas

f. 315
Nicholas
Nicholas's neighbour

f. 315v
Nicholas's neighbour
Nicholas's neighbour

f. 315v
Nicholas's neighbour
 
Nicholas

f. 316
Nicholas
Bishop of Myra

f. 316v
Bishop of Myra
Consecration of Nicholas

f. 317
Consecration of Nicholas
 
Nicholas

f. 317v
Nicholas
Nicholas saving a boat

f. 318
Nicholas saving a boat

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