Reginald de Bar is known to have owned six liturgical manuscripts all dating from the very beginning of the 14th century, probably between 1302 and 1305. The manuscripts were probably gifts from his relations, including his sister, Marguerite de Bar, abbess of the Abbey of Saint-Maur de Verdun and his mother, Jeanne de Toucy, whose arms figures many times in the margins alongside those of her son. All six manuscripts are designed to be used in church ceremonies by a bishop. • Breviary for the Use of Verdun – Summer volume (BM Verdun ms. 107) • Breviary for the Use of Verdun – Winter volume (
British Library,
Yates Thompson ms. 8) • Missal for the Use of Verdun, revised for Metz (BM Verdun ms. 98) • Pontifical for the Use of Metz – Part 1 (
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, ms. 298) • Pontifical for the Use of Metz – Part 2 (Prague,
National Library of the Czech Republic, ms. XXIIIC 120), 137 f. • Ritual for the Use of Metz (BM Metz ms. 43), destroyed in 1944 These manuscripts, especially the two volume Breviary of Verdun, are renowned for their rich illuminations, blason, marginalia and historiated initials. File:Lion_of_Leo.jpg|Lion, from July, Breviary of Verdun, Winter, British Library File:Breviaire_Renaud_de_Bar_grylle_chevalier-poisson.jpg|Marginalia, Breviary of Verdun, Summer, BM. Verdun File:Kephalophoroi.jpg|Combatants carrying their heads, Breviary of Verdun, Summer ==References==