Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans (BNF Latin 1156B)

The Visitation (Luke 1: 39-56), f. 58r.

Colloquial name(s): Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans

Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 1156B

Date: between 1426 and 1438 (source), additional marginal decoration c. 1450 (source)

Origin: France (source)

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

Calendar, tables, Hymnal and Canticles (BL Cotton MS Julius A VI)

Ploughing, f. 3r.

Colloquial name(s): none, it contains a calendar, computistical texts and tables, a Hymnal and Canticles

Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Julius A VI

Date: predominantly between the 1st half and the middle of the 11th Century (source)

Origin: possibly Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Shaftesbury Psalter (BL Lansdowne MS 383)

Mowing (June), f. 5v.

Colloquial name(s): the Shaftesbury Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Lansdowne MS 383

Date: 2nd quarter of the 12th Century (source)

Origin: England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Fécamp Psalter (The Hague KB, 76 F 13)

March: pruning vines, f. 3v.

Colloquial name(s): Fécamp Psalter / Fecamp Psalter

Official name(s): The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 13

Date: c. 1180 (source and source)

Origin: Abbey of Fécamp, Normandy (source and source)

Online facsimile available via: Koninklijke Bibliotheek Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Web Gallery of Art (some images)

Maastricht Hours (BL Stowe MS 17)

A woman in prayer before a crucifix, f. 157v.

Colloquial name(s): the Maastricht Hours

Official name(s): British Library, Stowe MS 17

Date: 1st quarter of 14th C (source)

Origin: Liège, Netherlands (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Rutland Psalter (BL Add. MS 62925)

July (reaping), f. 4r.

Colloquial name(s): Rutland Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Additional MS 62925

Date: c. 1260

Origin: London(?), England

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

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

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65)

February, f. 2v.

Colloquial name(s): Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Official name(s): Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65

Date: 1412-1416 (Limburg brothers' illustrations), 1420s or 1440s (further embellishments by an anonymous painter), 1485-1489 (illustrations completed or added by Jean Colombe) (source)

Origin: made for the French prince, John, Duke of Berry, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Mirador (full, zoomable facsimile), Wikimedia Commons (next best online facsimile), Christus Rex (inferior online facsimile)

The Taymouth Hours (BL Yeats Thompson MS 13)

Woman with longbow and rabbit/hare, f. 68.

Colloquial name(s): The Taymouth Hours
Official name(s): British Library, Yates Thompson MS 13

Date: second quarter of the 14th C (source); 1325-1340 (source)
Origin: London (?), S.E. (?) England

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