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Les Anciennes Hystoires Rommaines (BL Royal MS 16 G VII)

Alexander the Great fighting with elephants, f. 133v.

Colloquial name(s): Les anciennes hystoires rommaines (The ancient history of the Romans)

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 16 G VII

Date: 1375-1399 (source)

Origin: Paris, Central France (source)

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

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Ellesmere Chaucer (MSS EL 26 C 9)

The Wife of Bath, f. 72r.
Upon an amblere esily she sat,
Ywympled wel, and on hir heed an hat
As brood as is a bokeler or a targe;
A foot-mantel aboute hir hipes large,
And on hir feet a paire of spores sharpe.
(lines A 469-473.)

Colloquial name(s): The Ellesmere Chaucer
Official name(s): MSS EL 26 C9

Date: c. 1400-1410 (source)
Origin: England

Online facsimile available via: Huntington Digital Library

The Sherborne Missal (BL Add. MS 74236)

Robin (then called a roddoke), from p. 26.

Colloquial name(s): The Sherborne Missal

Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 74236

Date: c. 1400-1407 (source), c. 1399-1407 (source)

Origin: made for the Benedictine abbey, St. Mary's Abbey, in Sherborne, Dorset, England (source) 

Online facsimile available via: British Library Virtual Book (pages 1-32 only) or British Library 'Turning the Pages' version (pages 1-33 only) (currently there is no full facsimile available anywhere online)

Bible Historiale (The Hague, MMW 10 B 23)

David besieges Jerusalem, f. 144r.

Colloquial name(s): Bible Historiale, History Bible

Official name(s): The Hague, Museum Meermanno Westeenianum, 10 B 23

Date: 1371-1372 (source)

Origin: France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Museum Meermanno Westeenianum (full facsimile, however the link breaks intermittently), Koninklijke Bibliotheek Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (selection of illustrations), Wikimedia Commons (selection of illustrations)

De Civitate Dei (BNF Fr. 22912 & 22913)

St. Peter invokes the Christians whilst pagans are slain at the foot of their altar, f. 8r.

Colloquial name(s): De Civitate Dei

Official name(s): Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Français 22912 & 22913

Date: c. 1375-1377 for Fr. 22912 (source) and c. 1370-80 for Fr. 22913 (source), alternatively 1376 (source)

Origin: France (source, source and source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque Nationale de France Gallica digital library - Fr. 22912 and Fr. 22913