Research | The Wolsey Manuscripts

Fig.1a - Epistle Lectionary, Christ Church MS 101, fol.29r

Emulation and Originality in the Illumination of the Wolsey Lectionary

A great deal of revealing information about the function and history of this spectacular-looking Epistle and Gospel Lectionary is encoded in the illumination. Nothing is hidden from sight, but the viewer is taken on a rather complicated ride. For the decoration is not only there to impress, but also to add layer upon layer of depth to the manuscript.

Introduction from the President of Magdalen College and the Dean of Christ Church

Wolsey Symposium - Academic Roundtable Discussion

Carlotta Barranu

The roundtable held in the Upper Library of Christ Church, Oxford on the 12th of May 2017, was organised to coincide with the launch of this website, an online platform created to encourage the study of two manuscript books commissioned by Cardinal Wolsey in his later career. Thanks to the Mirador plugin, images from the two volumes in question, Oxford, Christ Church, MS 101 and Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat.

The Illuminator: The Master of Cardinal Wolsey

Dr Elizabeth Morrison

The Master of Cardinal Wolsey, a designation introduced in 2003 during research for the Getty Museum’s ‘Illuminating the Renaissance’ exhibition, is named after the patron of two impressive liturgical books now in Oxford: a gospel-lectionary (Magdalen College, MS. Lat. 223) and an epistle-lectionary (Christ Church, MS. 101).