Miscellany and Tristan Romance (BL Add. MS 11619)

Tristan in the bath, f. 6v.

Colloquial name(s): Part 1: Miscellany; Part 2: drawings illustrating the Tristan romance
Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 11619

Date: Part 1: 2nd half of 13th C or 1st quarter of 14th C; Part 2: 2nd or 3rd quarter of 13th C
Origin: Part 1: England or France; Part 2: London (?), S.E. (?) England

Online facsimile available via: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Collection of poems (Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 3142)

King gives a knight a book, f. 72r.

Colloquial name(s): Collection of ancient French poems / Recueil d'anciennes poésies françaises

Official name(s): Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 3142

Date: 1275-1300 (source)

Origin: France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library

Le Roman de Tristan en prose (BL Add. MS 5475)

Lancelot leaves a lady's chamber in breeches and a chemise, f. 150v.

Colloquial name(s): Le Roman de Tristan en prose

Official name(s): British Library, Additional MS 5474

Date: 4th quarter of 13th C (source)

Origin: Cistercian Abbey of Fontfrede, Languedoc, N. France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Rothschild Canticles (Yale University Library, Beinecke MS 404)

Christ and a woman, f. 21r.

Colloquial name(s): Rothschild Canticles

Official name(s): Yale University, Beinecke MS 404

Date: turn of the 14th C (source)

Origin: Flanders or the Rhineland (source)

Online facsimile available via: Yale University Library Beinecke Digital Collections

Treatises (BL Yates Thompson MS 11)

Mass, f. 6v.

Colloquial name(s): Treatises

Official name(s): British Library, Yates Thompson MS 11

Date: c. 1290 (source)

Origin: Lorraine, N.E. France or central France (Paris or Maubuisson?) (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Somme le Roi (BL Add. MS 28162)

'David et Golias' (left), labour (right), f. 8v.

Colloquial name(s): Somme le Roi
Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 28162

Date: c. 1290 - c. 1300 (source)
Origin: France (Paris? or North-East) (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

The Map Psalter (BL Add. MS 28681)

A pilgrim with a staff, f. 54v.

Colloquial name(s): The Map Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Additional MS 28681

Date: 1262-1300 (source)

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

Online facsimile available via: British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Decretals of Gregory IX (BL Royal MS 10 D VII)

Marriage ceremony, f. 233r.

Colloquial name(s): Decretals of Gregory IX, by Raymond of Peñafort, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

Official name(s): British Library Royal MS 10 D VII

Date: after 1281-1300 (Part 1); 1300-1324 (Part 2) (source)

Origin: Paris, Central France (Part 1); England (Part 2) (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

The Alphonso Psalter (BL Add. MS 24686)

Saint Andrew and Saint Lawrence, f. 2r.

Colloquial name(s): The Alphonso Psalter, The Tenison Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Additional MS 24686

Date: c. 1284-1316, depending on illustrations in question (source)

Origin: London or Westminster, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

The Smithfield Decretals (BL Royal MS 10 E IV)

Man reading a book, f. 4v.

Colloquial name(s): The Smithfield Decretals

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV

Date: Last quarter of the 13th C or first quarter of the 14th C (source) or c. 1300-1340 (source)

Origin: Phase 1: Toulouse (?), S. France, dedicated to the University of Paris (source and source), Phase 2: London, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (select images) and The British Library Digitised Manuscripts (full facsimile)