Latin Bible (Jerome, Prologue to Job - Job 5: 9). Latin Bible, 'Dragon Leaf,' Northern France, c. Note, this site does not include Special Collections' bound codices: two thirteenth-century Latin Bibles and one complete, bound, fifteenth-century Book of Hours. To browse or search our collections of 182 medieval leaves spanning the 12th-17th centuries, see the CU Boulder Digital Library Medieval Leaves Collection. For a high-end, highly illuminated breviary, see the British Library's Breviary of Isabella of Castile, which dates c. ![]() The notation reads: ' A Booke of Receipts from my Brother Cole: 1626.' Many medieval manuscripts were destroyed during the this period some of these were re-used for any number of purposes including bookbinding, wrappings, and even cleaning. Our breviary below from fifteenth-century England is especially interesting for its later, post-Reformation notation, which highlights the re-use of this small manuscript following the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the conversion of much of England to the English Church. As suggested by the name, a breviary is brief, a condensed, portable codex.
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