On a visit to the Houghton Library in 2018 I went through a box of miscellaneous single leaves, containing all sorts of interesting items. One is a Czech Antiphonal leaf, of which a detail is shown above.
Sunday 23 April 2023
Saturday 8 April 2023
A 13th-Century Peter Lombard now in Liverpool
This week's post is really just a series of observations, followed by a puzzle to which I hope a reader might be able to offer a solution.
Some months ago I went to Liverpool, and among the manuscripts I wanted to see was a very fine copy of Peter Lombard's Gloss on the Psalms, produced probably in Oxford in the early 13th century. It is well known, having been catalogued by George Warner when owned by Dyson Perrins, and having been included in Nigel Morgan's Survey of Early Gothic English Illumination [1].
It is an extremely handsome volume, with wide margins, as can be seen in the image above; here is a close-up of one of the historiated initial:
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