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Free Images: "bestof:BritLibRoyal5BIIFolio030r.JPG Text from De baptismo parvulorum by Augustine of Hippo from a manuscript of miscellaneous writings by Augustine British Library"
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Les genealogies de soixante et sept tres-nobles et -tres-illustres maisons - Upper cover (c67e3).jpg
Compra de Beni in Monte Santo e Loreto -legal manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis855).jpg
"PARVA Cyrurgia Lanfranci Mediolanensis;" with marginal notes, f. 2. 2. Magna cyrurgia, of the same, in 5 books; with notes, f. 14. 3. "-Parva- cyrurgia Theodoii fratris ordinis, fratrum prc - Upper cover (Add Ms 26106).jpg
HORAE B. Mariæ Virginis; cum litania, psalmis pœnitentialibus, memoriis Sanctorum, et officio mortuorum. Manuscript on parchment. Written in Flanders by two hands, of the middle of the xvth - Upper cover (Add Ms 19416).jpg
OFFICE AND MASS OF THE DEAD, in Latin, with musical notation- two of a set of volumes written for the anniversary of Everard de la Marck, Bishop of Liége (d. 1538), to be celebrated in the c - Upper cover (Egerton 3311).jpg
Carta executoria de Hidalguia (begins imperfectly) -Origin Spain, S. (Grenada) -Date 21 May 1597 -manuscript on parchment--Language Spanish -Script Humanistic - - Upper cover (Egerton 3296).jpg
Part 1; Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers Origin France, N. Date 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th centu - Lower cover (Sloane manuscript 2400).jpg
Part 1; Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers Origin France, N. Date 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th centu - Upper cover (Sloane manuscript 2400).jpg
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-Miscellaneous Writings - Seconde instruction - Upper cover (c47b7).jpg
-A Manuscript Catalogue of the books of the royal library of the kings of England, now in the British Museum.- - - Lower cover (partial image) (Tab.1281.b.1. ).jpg
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Pious Breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual. - Upper cover (222k24).jpg
De Maria Virgine ... libri quinque - Lower cover (c47i17).jpg
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De libero arbitrio - Upper cover (c47g2).jpg
Tractatus de profectu religiosorum a beato Bonauentura compositus. - Upper cover (IA40925).jpg
Psalter Origin Netherlands Date 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century -Language Dutch --Parchment manuscript- - Cover (Egerton 2903).jpg
The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of his life and writings, stereotyped from the Paris edition, edited by Washington Irving. (Philadelphia- J. Crissy; Desilver, Th - Upper cover (c109c8).jpg
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Prayer book -Netherlands, N.; 15th century --Manuscript- - (Egerton 2904).jpg
Prayer book -Netherlands, N.; 15th century --Manuscript- - Upper cover (Egerton 2904).jpg
Statuti della venerabile Archicompagnia della Pieta de Carcerati-di Roma. On vellum. - Upper cover (c41f18).jpg
Gospels of St Luke and St John -manuscript- Late 12c-early 13c - Upper cover (Add Ms 27926).jpg
De Maria Virgine ... libri quinque - Upper cover (c47i17).jpg
M. Verini ... de puerorum moribus Disticha, cum ... M.-Juarr- expositione. - Upper cover (c128e18).jpg
-Text in Greek bound with--THYLESIUS, Antonius. A. Thylesii ... Libellus de Coloribus, ubi multa leguntur praeteraliorum opinionem. (Venetiis, 1528.) - Upper cover (c130b12).jpg
Office de la Quinzaine de Paques suivant le nouveau breviaire de Paris et Rome - Lower cover (Davis550).jpg
Ricciardetto. Poema in Ottava Rima. - Upper cover (BJ4).jpg
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Letras decissorias de Nicolas Mathias de Ona, Senor de Bunales -Illuminated manuscript on parchment- - Spine (davis710).jpg
Letras decissorias de Nicolas Mathias de Ona, Senor de Bunales -Illuminated manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis710).jpg
Carta ejecutoria apedimjento de Alonso de Mohedas -Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis708).jpg
De Trinitate, De Synodis and Contra arianos - Upper Cover (Harley ms 3115).jpg
Editio ... M. de Miechow ... pro conservanda hominum sanitate familiarissimo collecta stilbo - Lower cover (c108s9).jpg
HORÆ B. Mariæ Virginis et alia Officia, ordine sequenti -Manuscript on parchment- - (Add Ms 14804).jpg
Demosthenes, De corona -2nd half of the 15th century - Upper cover (Harley Ms 6311A).jpg
Le grant voyage de Jherusalem divise en deux parties. En la premiere est traicte des peregrinations de la saincte cite de Jherusale. - Upper cover (c32m13).jpg
Les heures nostre dame a lusaige de Rome sans requerir - Lower cover (c29f16).jpg
HORÆ B. Mariæ Virginis; cum septem psalmis pœnitentialibus, litania, vigiliis mortuorum, et suffragiis Sanctorum. Vellum; finely illuminated for Francis I. of France. Some of the borders are - Upper cover (Add Ms 18853).jpg
Part I Petrus Comestor Title Historia scholastica, part, and Sermons Origin England - Date last quarter of the 12th century Language Latin -Manuscript on parchment-- - Lower cover (Egerton manuscript 272).jpg
De astronomia and Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis - - Upper Cover (Harley ms 2650).jpg
Breuiarium reuerendorum patrum ordinis diui Benedicti de obseruantia per Germaniam ... nuper in Egmundensi Monasterio & iam iterum ... castigatum. - Lower cover (c48a7).jpg
Part I Petrus Comestor Title Historia scholastica, part, and Sermons Origin England - Date last quarter of the 12th century Language Latin -Manuscript on parchment-- - Upper cover (Egerton manuscript 272).jpg
Confessionale- Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Add- Johannes Chrysostomus- Sermo de poenitentia -Cologne- Ulrich Zel, not after 29 Aug. 1468- - - Upper cover (IA2764).jpg
"LES NOMS des freres et seurs de la charite et confrarie du saint sacrement fondee en la grant eglise de nostre dame de Rouen- extrais des antiens registres et papiers;" 1435; containing a c - (Add Ms 19743).jpg
"LES NOMS des freres et seurs de la charite et confrarie du saint sacrement fondee en la grant eglise de nostre dame de Rouen- extrais des antiens registres et papiers;" 1435; containing a c - Lower cover (Add Ms 19743).jpg
S. AURELII AUGUSTINI, Episcopi Hipponensis, De Civitate Dei libri xxii. Manuscript on parchment, written in Italy, xvth cent. An illuminated border round the first page is executed in a supe - Lower cover (Add MS 14783).jpg
-HENRICI sive JOHANNIS Susonis- Horologium Sapientiæ, scilicet Dialogus Sapientiæ et ministri ejus, f. 3 ;-Cursus de eterna sapientia, f. 65 ;-Tractatulus de arte bene moriendi, Doctoris Jac - Upper cover (Add MS 15105).jpg
Book of Hours, Use of Rome (The 'Huth Hours') - Upper cover (Add Ms 38126).jpg
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia de sangre en propiedad apedimjento de Francisco Calderon -Manuscript on parchment- - Spine (davis711).jpg
-Possibly a blanlk book now containing-- Appointment of Alonzo Forera to be a 'familiar' of the Inquisition -Manuscript on paper- - Spine (davis709).jpg
-Possibly a blanlk book now containing-- Appointment of Alonzo Forera to be a 'familiar' of the Inquisition -Manuscript on paper- - Upper cover (Davis709).jpg
Breuiarium reuerendorum patrum ordinis diui Benedicti de obseruantia per Germaniam ... nuper in Egmundensi Monasterio & iam iterum ... castigatum. - Upper cover (c48a7).jpg
OFFICIA Octo, videlicet, Individve Trinitatis; Omnivm in Christo Defvnotorvm; Angelorvm; Sanctorvmque omnivm; Preciosissimi Corporis Christi; et Sancti Spiritvs; Alme crvcis; -Gavdiorvm sept - Upper cover (Add ms 21591).jpg
ALBUM amicorum of Philippus de Glarges, of Haarlem, student of medicine, containing autograph signatures and inscriptions of English and foreign physicians, divines, scholars, etc.; 1636-164 - Upper cover (Add Ms 23105).jpg
HORae Beatæ Mariee Virginis et Officia varia, scil.- "Off-iciu-m b-ea-te marie uirginis secundum consuetudinem romane ecclesie," f. 1; "Officium defunctorum," f. 103; "Septem psalmi peniten - Upper cover (Add Ms 23774).jpg
RICHARD CRASHAW, "Sacrorum Epigrammatum Liber probably an earlier form of the collection published in 1634 (Cambridge) under the title Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber. -Manuscript on paper- - Upper cover (Add Ms 40176).jpg
Desiderius D Erasmi de duplici copia verborum et rerum - Upper and lower cover and spine (c67e23).jpg
Triumphus crucis, de fidei veritate - Upper cover (bj3).jpg
DE REGNO CHRISTI- a Latin discourse by Martin Bucer, the reformer, addressed by way of a new-year's gift (though apparently out of season) to Edward VI, in virtue of the office of Regius Pro - Upper cover (Royal Ms 8B VII ).jpg
HOURS, etc., of the Virgin and other offices, in Latin, viz.-- Cursus Evangelii, f. 1. "Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem," f. 2. Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, Sanctæ Crucis, - Upper cover (Add Ms 27698).jpg
41258. "HENR-ICUS- DE BRACTONE" (16th cent. title), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. -Manuscript on parchment Circ. A.D. 1300. -- - Upper cover (Add Ms 41258).jpg
GASPARINI BARZIZII, Pergamensis, philosophi et Oratorio, Epistolæ ad exercitationem accommodatæ, et Missiva;-Guiniforti Barzizii, -filii Gasparini,- juris civilis et artium doctoris, ac duca - Upper cover (Add Ms 14786).jpg
GASPARINI BARZIZII, Pergamensis, philosophi et Oratorio, Epistolæ ad exercitationem accommodatæ, et Missiva;-Guiniforti Barzizii, -filii Gasparini,- juris civilis et artium doctoris, ac duca - Lower cover (Add Ms 14786).jpg
OFFICE AND MASS OF THE DEAD, in Latin, with musical notation- two of a set of volumes written for the anniversary of Everard de la Marck, Bishop of Liége (d. 1538), to be celebrated in the c - Lower cover (Egerton 3311).jpg
Creations de Louis XIV dans l'Ordre du Saint Esprit.. de 1654-1663. -Manuscript- - Upper cover (Davis411).jpg
Nom_he_peq´na_a_obrigac?am_de_Iouuor_que_teem_os_presentes_?_futuros_aos_defunctos_scriptores_-_Upper_cover_(c104a28).jpg
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia de sangre en propiedad apedimjento de Francisco Calderon -Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis711).jpg
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