Each manuscript is linked to the Saint Louis University library catalog; more images are provided at the links to records at the Digital Scriptoriumwebsite.
Leaves from the Llangattock Breviary are among the collections of the following institutions: Harvard, U.C. Berkeley, American Academy in Rome, Michigan State, U. South Carolina, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Dartmouth College, and Museo Schifanoia in Ferrara.
10 single leaves from a 15th-century Book of Hours written in France. Decoration: On fol. d, verso, one full-page miniature of the Betrayal and Arrest of Christ (above) and Christ in Gethsemane (below); on fol. f, verso, one half-page miniature of the Stoning of St. Stephen; twelve 10-line miniatures.
Written and illuminated in Spain ca. 1460. Rubric: On fol. 1a, recto: "In iii noct[urno] sole[m]nitatis epypha[n]ie d[icitur] iste p[salmu]s. Venite." (Third nocturne at Matins for the Feast of Epiphany.)
Written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1280-1290, in two columns of 50 lines, with surrounding Glossa ordinaria; ruled in lead with single inner and outer bounding lines for text and gloss. Text keyed to gloss by letters of the alphabet.
Written and illuminated in Valladolid, Spain; dated 13 June, 1587 on folio 35r. Patent of nobility issued by Philip II of Spain to Juan de Gayferos de Eguirau.
Release of goods and moveable property by King Edward III to George Felbrigg of the Priory of Toften. Written in 21 long lines; no visible rulings; top edge cut as an indenture.
Grant by Pierre le Jaire, knight, of two arpents of arable land "in the clearings of Combles in the place which is called Echanes au Roi" to a monastic house in Provins.
Attached by a parchment tag is the armorial seal of Pierre le Jaire.
Written in France. Acknowledgement by Sir James Husee that he has received from Henry Percehay twelve shillings six pence (in part payment of one hundred shillings) due because of the marriage of the heir of John le Warre.
Armorial seal attached to parchment tongue.
The sixth book of the Decretals was written under the direction of Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) and for centuries was one of the chief texts of canon law. This is a detached leaf from a manuscript made at Bologna, the chief center of canon law during the medieval period.
Written in France in the 13th century, in double columns, with text of Psalms surrounded by gloss; fragment of binding waste, preserves only about 16 glossing lines of text.
Written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1300. Illuminated initials in red or blue, with bar extensions in pen flourishes of opposite color; running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue, with most chapter numbers inside the column.
Written in England; Text includes all the Marcionite prologues for the Epistles of Paul, but is missing the Omnes prologue by Gilbert de la Poire for the Apocalypse.
Written in France in ca. 1335, in in 10 long lines, alternating with ten 4-line red staves with C clefs and square notation; sewing stations visible in inner margins.
Written in Italy; painted marginal decoration added later, possibly in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. On fol. a, recto: Historiated roundels, one in the bas de page depicting King David ringing bells, and a second in the right lateral margin depicting St. Francis of Assisi.
Written in Italy. On folio a, verso: large initial L with acanthus leaf decoration in orange, blue, pink, and gray, on a black rectangular ground with white tracery. Smaller initial E in red with blue and red penwork flourishes.
Written and decorated in Spain in the 16th century, in 5 long lines, with 4-line red staves and square notation with C and F clefs; ruled in lead with double inner and outer parallel bounding lines.
Written and illuminated in Spain in the 17th century. Rubric: On fol. a, recto, "Ad Magnificat Antpho[narium]. Tristitia vestra vertetur in g[a]udium..." [Antiphon for Paschal time at Vespers].
Written and illuminated in Italy, possibly Orvieto, ca. 1420, with a historiated initial depicting King David pointing to God the Father and saints in heaven.