• Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses

Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1 large initial in red, with reserved designs, and pen-flourishing in brown with yellow wash (f. 1). Smaller initials and paraph marks in plain red. Metamorphoses Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Text page., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Text page., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Illuminated initial 'N'(ux)., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Detail of a miniature of Anthony being tormented by demons, with an historiated initial 'A'(nthoine) of Anthony being blessed by another saint, at the beginning of his legend., The Golden Legend (La Légende Dorée)

of vols 1 and 2); his sale, 31 July 1844. Sir Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge: his book-plate (inside upper cover, vols 1 and 2). G. I. Ellis, London bookseller: cutting of his catalogue, no. 79 (pasted in vol. 1 to

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Library Richardson 44 Aldenham MS s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 416 298, LP 678 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A manuscript dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century containing the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Arundel 272 s. xv English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32v) - scribal dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 105). Scribe 2 (ff. 33r-35v) - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

) 'he þat dyeth in'. Unreadable English Erbe 1905. Codex Parchment c. 200 135 mm 1 10 wanting 1 (this stub is foliated as 1), ff. 2-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-26v, catchword;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Digby , vol. 1, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 31, no. 8. Horstmann, C., ed, 1892. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1 'modern' paper flyleaf at back along with 4 paper leaves added when rebound. None Good Unknown Belonged in the eighteenth century to ' Andrew Clerke ', f. 1; to the Norfolk antiquary Peter Le Neve (d. 1729), f.