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Ambrose, Exposition on Luke
Plimpton MS 50, f. 137v
France,second half, 12th century

Ambrose, Exposition on Luke
Plimpton MS 50, f. 138v
France,second half, 12th century

Ambrose, Exposition on Luke
Plimpton MS 50, f. 2v
France,second half, 12th century

Antiphonal
Plimpton MS 41, binding
Italy, Perugia,third quarter, 15th century

Antiphonal
Plimpton MS 41, f. 1
Italy, Perugia,third quarter, 15th century

Antiphonal
Plimpton MS 41, f. 1 detail
Italy, Perugia,third quarter, 15th century

Antiphonal
Plimpton MS 41, f. 133v
Italy, Perugia,third quarter, 15th century

Aristotle, Ethics, Politics & Economics; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Plimpton MS 17, f. 220v detail
Italy, north,1393

Aristotle, Ethics, Politics & Economics; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Plimpton MS 17, f. 3
Italy, north,1393

Aristotle, Ethics, Politics & Economics; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Plimpton MS 17, f. 3 detail
Italy, north,1393

Aristotle, Opera logica
X88/Ar512, f. 1
France, Paris?,14th century

Aristotle, Opera logica
X88/Ar512, f. 208v
France, Paris ?,14th century

Aristotle, Topica, Elenchi & Analytica posteriora
Plimpton MS 21, f. 50v
England,middle of the 13th century

Bede, De ratione temporum; Isidore, De natura rerum
Plimpton MS 251, f. 97
Spain?,second half, 12th century

Bede, Homilies
Plimpton MS 32, f. 1v
Rhaetia,first quarter, 9th century

Bible
Plimpton MS 26 (frag.), verso
France,10th century

Bible
Plimpton MS 27 (frag.), verso
Spain,8th or 9th century

Bible
Plimpton MS 27 (frag.), verso
Spain,8th or 9th century

Bible
Smith Western MS 19, binding
Italy,15th century

Bible
Smith Western MS 19, f. 202 detail
Italy,13th century

Bible
X227/S (frag.), verso ?
Italy, Tuscany,middle of the 12th century

Bible
X227/S (frag.), verso ?, detail
Italy, Tuscany,middle of the 12th century

Bible
X227/S3 (frag.), recto ?
Italy, Tuscany,middle of the 12th century

Bible
X227/S3 (frag.), recto ?, detail
Italy, Tuscany,middle of the 12th century

Bible
X893/B4794, f. 92
France,13th century

Boethius, De consolati philosophiae
Benjamin MS 4, f. 11
Italy,13th century

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Benjamin MS 4, binding
Italy,15th century

Book of hours, use of Paris
Smith Western MS 23, f. 59v
France,end of the 15th century

Breviary
Plimpton MS 33 (frag.), recto
Italy, Tuscany,first half, 12th century

Breviary
Smith Western MS 16, f. 63
France, southwest,third quarter, 12th century

Clement V, Constitutions
Smith Western MS 18, binding
France,late 15th century

Clement V, Constitutions
Smith Western MS 18, f. 18
France,late 15th century

Clement V, Constitutions
Smith Western MS 18, f. 18 detail
France,late 15th century

Commonplace book
Plimpton MS 276, f. 3 detail
England,middle of the 16th century

Commonplace book
Plimpton MS 276, f. 4
England,middle of the 16th century

Commonplace book, bound in a leaf from a 15th century ferial psalter
Plimpton MS 276, f. 81v & back wrapper
England,middle, 16th cent. & 15th

Commonplace book, bound in a leaf from a 15th century ferial psalter
Plimpton MS 276, f. 81v & back wrapper
England,middle, 16th cent. & 15th

Cronica degli imperadori romani, in Italian
Lodge MS 16, f. 79
Italy, south,early 15th century

Cyprian, Ad Quirinum
Plimpton MS 51 (frag.), recto
England,first half, 12th century

Dogmatic florilegium
Plimpton MS 58, f. 45v
France, south,second third, 9th century

Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus s. Augustini
Plimpton MS 48, f. 3
Flanders, Tournai,turn of the 9th century

Faustus of Rietz, Sermon
Plimpton MS 57 (frag.), verso
France, northeast,second half, 9th century

Ferial psalter
Typographic MS 2, f. 1
Italy, Florence,middle of the 15th century

Ferial psalter
Typographic MS 2, f. 66
Italy, Florence,middle of the 15th century

Florilegium
Plimpton MS 130 (frag.), f. 1
Italy,middle, 11th century

Gower, Confessio amantis
Plimpton MS 265, f. 4
England,first quarter, 15th century

Gower, Confessio amantis
Plimpton MS 265, f. 4 detail
England,first quarter, 15th century

Gradual
Plimpton MS 40A (frag.), recto
Italy, Brescia,third quarter, 15th century

Gradual
X264/Sa5/Q, f. 5v
Italy,14th century

Gratian, Decretum
Plimpton MS 88 (frag.), verso
Italy,14th century

Gratian, Decretum
Plimpton MS 88 (frag.), verso detail
Italy,14th century

Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezechiel
Plimpton MS 53, f. 1v
Italy, north,turn of the 9th century

Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezechiel
X878.G86, f. 56v
England,12th century

Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezechiel
X878/G86, f. 36
England,12th century

Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezechiel
X878/G86, f. 67
England,12th century

Gregory the Great, XL Homeliae in Evangelia
Plimpton MS 52, f. 47
England, north,second quarter, 12th century

Homiliary
Plimpton MS 55, f. 2
France?,first half, 9th century

Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris
Plimpton MS 38, ff. 6v-7
France,end of the 15th century

Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome
Western MS 37, f. 116
Switzerland,1523

Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome
Western MS 37, f. 124v
Switzerland,1523

Isidore, Etymologiarum libri
Plimpton MS 127 (frag.), f. 4
Germany?,turn of the 9th century

Isidore, Synonyma
Plimpton MS 129 (frag.), verso
Germany, Fulda,turn of the 9th century

Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum
Plimpton MS 124, f. 33
England,third quarter, 12th century

Jerome, Lives of Desert Fathers; letters
X208/J48, binding
Italy, north,1436

Jerome, Lives of Desert Fathers; letters
X208/J48, f. 177v
Italy, north,1436

Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Plimpton MS 43, f. 1 detail
France, north,second half, 12th century

Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Plimpton MS 43, f. 36v
France, north,second half, 12th century

Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Plimpton MS 43, f. 37v
France, north,second half, 12th century

Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Plimpton MS 43, f. 57
France, north,second half, 12th century

La Mort le Roi Artu, in French
Western MS 24
Italy, north,middle of the 14th century

La Mort le Roi Artu, in French
Western MS 24, f. 24v
Italy, north,middle of the 14th century

La Mort le Roi Artu, in French
Western MS 24, f. 89
Italy, north,middle of the 14th century

Lathcen, Eglogae moralium Gregorii in Iob
Plimpton MS 54 (frag.), recto
Ireland,8th century

Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; John Chrysostom; Ailred of Rievaulx
X878/L43, f. 23
England,12th century

Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; John Chrysostom; Ailred of Rievaulx
X878/L43, f. 2v
England,12th century

Lectionary
Med/Ren Frag. 26 (frag.), recto ?
Italy,12th century

Luke, glossed
Plimpton MS 30 (frag.), recto
France,fourth quarter, 12th century

Matthew, glossed
Plimpton MS 29, f. 17v
Switzerland ?,third quarter, 12th century

Matthew, glossed
Plimpton MS 29, ff. 70v-71
Switzerland ?,third quarter, 12th century

Meditatio Christi
Western MS 21, f. 44v
Germany,1493

Missal
Med/Ren Frag. 42 (frag.), recto
Spain,12th century

Missal for Carmelite use
Plimpton MS 35, f. 1
Italy, Verona ?,end of the 14th century

Missal for Carmelite use
Plimpton MS 35, f. 5
Italy, Verona ?,end of the 14th century

Missal for Carmelite use
Plimpton MS 35, f. 90
Italy, Verona ?,end of the 14th century

Missal for Carmelite use
Plimpton MS 35, ff. 89v-90
Italy, Verona ?,end of the 14th century

Ordinal
Western MS 39, f. 80 detail
Flanders,end of the 15th century

Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto; commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Lodge MS 9, ff. 36v-37
Italy,middle of the 15th century

Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV
Plimpton MS 61, f. 149v
France,third quarter, 13th century

Prayerbook
X264.02/C28, ff. 21v-22
Italy, Naples,second quarter, 16th century

Processional for Franciscan use
Plimpton MS 34, ff. 17v-18
Flanders,1351

Psalter
Western MS 49 (frag.), recto
Germany,first half, 12th century

Psalter
X223.2/B47, ff. 10v-11
Low Countries ?,early 13th century

Pseudo Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Plimpton MS 49A (frag.), recto
Germany,9th century

Sallust, Coniuratio Catilinae & De bello iugurtino, in Italian
Lodge MS 18, f. 42v
Italy, Florence,middle of the 14th century

Sallust, Coniuratio Catilinae & De bello iugurtino
Lodge MS 8, f. 11
France, south,second half, 12th century

Sallust, Coniuratio Catilinae & De bello iugurtino
Lodge MS 8, f. 33v
France, south,second half, 12th century

Sallust, Coniuratio Catilinae & De bello iugurtino
Lodge MS 8, f. 83
Italy,1436

Smaragdus, Collectiones epistolarum et evangeliorum
Plimpton MS 56 (frag.), verso
France, northeast,second half, 9th century

Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on life and passion of Christ, in Dutch
Western MS 4, f. 1
Low Countries,15th century

Thomas a Kempis, Imitatio Christi
X242.1/S, f. 2
France, Strasbourg,1485

Victorinus, In rhetoricam Ciceronis
Plimpton MS 103, binding
Italy,15th century

Victorinus, In rhetoricam Ciceronis
Plimpton MS 103, f. 50
Italy,second half, 11th century