F. J. Norton’s manuscripts

The name of F. J. Norton (1904–1986) will be familiar to many readers of this journal as a consequence of his important contributions to the study of post-incunabula in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.1 His substantial personal collection of over 600 examples of European printing from the period 1501–20 is now held at Cambridge University Library as a named collection Less well known, however, is the small collection of medieval manuscripts, also at the University Library, that Norton assembled alongside his library of early print.3 These books fell beyond the range of Jayne Ringrose’s summary catalogue of the Additional manuscripts, and neither the two codices that contain limited decoration nor the fragment of an illuminated psalter were included in the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts.