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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[233-
gold helmet: round shield slung from arm. Red and green tree
on L. Beautiful fields of trellised and patterned work outside
the initial. At top a goldfinch and a linnet (?) shot at by a man
on R. Below dog and hare. Bull., pl. xxxix.
82 b. Dixit insipzens. Under two ogival cusped arches L. David
throned points up with R. hand and down with L. R. the fool
quite nude and bald holds cake in R. hand and short-handled
whip in L. Grotesques above and below: below, one shoots a
sitting hare through the neck. Bull., pl. xl.
86. az 3 garbs or : gu 3 horseshoes arg: gzi 3 bougets arg (Roos)
frequent about here: also Bardolph az 3 cinqfoils or.
101. Saluum me fac. Angels at top with trumpets, and banners
of Vaux and Bardolph. In the letter: punctured gold ground.
Above, Christ half length with white orb blessing. Below,
Jonah nude comes out of the mouth of the fish, in green sea.
Nineveh on R., a castle : curiously mottled to represent marble
of various hues (but not quite in the St Albans manner).
Below, an old man thrusts a pole or spear into a boar’s
mouth.
123 b. Exultate. Trumpeter at top has banner gu 2 bars arg.
Initial : David beardless, crowned, in grey-purple robe lined
with fur, sits cross-legged and plays with hammers on nine
silver bells hung above him. His seat is many-coloured and
mottled marble. Gold ground, patterned : beautiful external
ground.
126*5. Quam dilecta. Beardless bust.
130*5. Domine deus. Bust of Christ: grey nimbus with red
cross.
148*5. Domine exaudi. Gold ground. David in pink robe over
blue, crowned, beardless, kneels before red altar : on it a chalice
and corporal: three lamps hang above : on horizontal red rods
are white curtains which look like towels festooned over the
rods. On L. on a stool a blue bucket and asperge. Cusped
arches. Above these a bit of field, arg 2 chevrons az and two
roundels gu in chief. Below a hound tracking red deer.
Dixit dominus is gone after f. 168.
189*5. Ad dominum. Gold ground. Above the transom of the
A, Christ half length with orb, blessing. Below, 3 cusped
arches. In C. a lady in pink mantle, fur-lined, over blue,
prays. Altar on R. with chalice and corporal. On L. white
curtain festooned on red rod. A small dog below it. The wall
between the arches is arg 2 bars gu, roundels in chief of the
2nd.
215. Confitebor. (Cantica) rather smaller initial: gold ground.
David praying before altar with chalice and corporal. White
curtain looped up above (not on rod). Candlestick on L.
Perhaps by another hand.
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[233-
gold helmet: round shield slung from arm. Red and green tree
on L. Beautiful fields of trellised and patterned work outside
the initial. At top a goldfinch and a linnet (?) shot at by a man
on R. Below dog and hare. Bull., pl. xxxix.
82 b. Dixit insipzens. Under two ogival cusped arches L. David
throned points up with R. hand and down with L. R. the fool
quite nude and bald holds cake in R. hand and short-handled
whip in L. Grotesques above and below: below, one shoots a
sitting hare through the neck. Bull., pl. xl.
86. az 3 garbs or : gu 3 horseshoes arg: gzi 3 bougets arg (Roos)
frequent about here: also Bardolph az 3 cinqfoils or.
101. Saluum me fac. Angels at top with trumpets, and banners
of Vaux and Bardolph. In the letter: punctured gold ground.
Above, Christ half length with white orb blessing. Below,
Jonah nude comes out of the mouth of the fish, in green sea.
Nineveh on R., a castle : curiously mottled to represent marble
of various hues (but not quite in the St Albans manner).
Below, an old man thrusts a pole or spear into a boar’s
mouth.
123 b. Exultate. Trumpeter at top has banner gu 2 bars arg.
Initial : David beardless, crowned, in grey-purple robe lined
with fur, sits cross-legged and plays with hammers on nine
silver bells hung above him. His seat is many-coloured and
mottled marble. Gold ground, patterned : beautiful external
ground.
126*5. Quam dilecta. Beardless bust.
130*5. Domine deus. Bust of Christ: grey nimbus with red
cross.
148*5. Domine exaudi. Gold ground. David in pink robe over
blue, crowned, beardless, kneels before red altar : on it a chalice
and corporal: three lamps hang above : on horizontal red rods
are white curtains which look like towels festooned over the
rods. On L. on a stool a blue bucket and asperge. Cusped
arches. Above these a bit of field, arg 2 chevrons az and two
roundels gu in chief. Below a hound tracking red deer.
Dixit dominus is gone after f. 168.
189*5. Ad dominum. Gold ground. Above the transom of the
A, Christ half length with orb, blessing. Below, 3 cusped
arches. In C. a lady in pink mantle, fur-lined, over blue,
prays. Altar on R. with chalice and corporal. On L. white
curtain festooned on red rod. A small dog below it. The wall
between the arches is arg 2 bars gu, roundels in chief of the
2nd.
215. Confitebor. (Cantica) rather smaller initial: gold ground.
David praying before altar with chalice and corporal. White
curtain looped up above (not on rod). Candlestick on L.
Perhaps by another hand.