The Melisende Psalter (BL Egerton MS 1139)

The Adoration of the Magi, f. 2v.

Colloquial name(s): The Melisende Psalter

Official name(s): British Library Egerton MS 1139

Date: 1131-43 (source)

Origin: Jerusalem, Eastern Mediterranean (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Psalter (BL Royal MS I D X)

The Nativity, f. 1v.

Colloquial name(s): Psalter

Official name(s): British Library Royal MS 1 D X

Date: c. 1200-20 (source)

Origin: Oxford, central England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Psalter (Bodl. MS Gough Liturg. 2)

The Annunciation to the Shepherds, f. 14r.

Colloquial name(s): Psalter

Official name(s): Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Gough Liturgy 2

Date: c. 1200 (source)

Origin: England (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA (high quality facsimiles, but not all folios)

The Holkham Bible Picture Book (BL Add. MS 47682)

The Annunciation, f. 11v.

Colloquial name(s): The Holkham Bible Picture Book

Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 47682

Date: c. 1327-35 (source)

Origin: London(?), S.E. England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Petit Livre d'Amour (BL Stowe MS 955)

Curry combing a horse, f. 11r.

Colloquial name(s): Petit Livre d'Amour, Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour

Official name(s): British Library Stowe MS 955

Date: c. 1500 (ff. 1r-17v) and 18th C (ff. 19r-34r) (source)

Origin: Paris and Lyon, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Golf Book (BL Add. MS 24098)

September, men play a game similar to golf, f. 27r.

Colloquial name(s): the Golf Book

Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 24098

Date: c. 1540 (source)

Origin: Bruges, Netherlands

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Cædmon manuscript (Bodl. MS Junius 11)

An angel guards the gate of Paradise as Adam and Eve leave, p. 46.

Colloquial name(s): The Cædmon manuscript, the Junius manuscript, the Junius manuscript of Oxford

Official name(s): Great Britain, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11

Date: c. 1000 (source and source), c. 1000 or c. 930-60 (source)

Origin: Christ Church(?), Canterbury(?), England (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA (high-quality but not all folios) and Early Manuscripts at Oxford University (low-quality full facsimile)

St Albans Psalter

The fall (Genesis 3:1-6), p. 12

Colloquial name(s): St Albans Psalter, Albani Psalter, Psalter of Christina of Markyate

Official name(s): the majority of it has no official name as it is owned by St Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany rather than a library; one leaf is kept in the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln and a further leaf and cutting are now missing (source)

Date: possibly 1124-1129 (source)

Origin: St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: The St Albans Psalter Project - full facsimile (including the Köln leaf) with transcription and translation into modern English and modern German

Tickhill Psalter (NYPL Spencer collection Ms. 26)

The tree of Jesse, image ID ps_spn_cd15_218.

Colloquial name(s): Tickhill Psalter

Official name(s): New York Public Library, Spencer collection Ms. 26

Date: c. 1310 (source)

Origin: Augustinian Priory of Worksop (Radnor), Nottinghamshire, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: New York Public Library Digital Collections (a few illustrations)