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

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

Peterborough Psalter (KBR, ms. 9961-62)

Lot's wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt, f. 12v.

Colloquial name(s): Peterborough Psalter

Official name(s): Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, ms. 9961-62

Date: first half of 14th Century (source)

Origin: Peterborough Abbey, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: KBR Belgica (click on the link 'Feuilleter le document')

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

Breviari d'Amor (BL Royal MS 19 C I)

Temptation to sin by fine clothing, f. 203v.

Colloquial name(s): Breviari d'Amor, by Matfre Ermengaud

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 19 C I

Date: 1300-1325 (source)

Origin: Occitan/Provencal France (source)

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

The Queen Mary Psalter (BL Royal MS 2 B VII)

People, possibly dancing, f. 173v.

Colloquial name(s): The Queen Mary Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 2 B VII

Date: 1310-1320 (source)

Origin: London/Westminster or East Anglia?, England (source)

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

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