Historiated initial 'I' of the eagle symbol of John, extension of acanthus-like foliage and bezants with single hair-line embellishment, at the beginning of a Gospel extract from John 1:1-14. Italian cuttings. The present leaves and bifolia originally formed part of
Miniature in four segments: 1. Pierre Bersuire presenting the book to John II; 2. the wolf with Romulus and Remus; 3. John II enthroned; 4. Knights fighting, at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the 'Ab urbe condita' of Livy,
Detail of a miniature in four segments: 1. Pierre Bersuire presenting the book to John II; 2. the wolf with Romulus and Remus; 3. John II enthroned; 4. Knights fighting, at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the 'Ab urbe
of the preface, with the ownership inscriptions of Humphrey Lloyd and John Lumley. Contains the Libellum geomancie composed for Richard II in 1391, but all references to Richard were omitted in the Prologue. Another contemporary copy, Oxford Bodleian Library, Bodley
University of Paris (f. 4). John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St
) 'We shal bileue þat þis pater noster'. 'shal we haue euer lastynge fredom. Amen'. 'Explicit pater noster'. ff. 3v-4v John Wyclif Ave Maria (IPMEP 455 ) 'Men greten commonly our lady goddis moder'. 'worshipe the marie wiþ al our
Good but initial page and border faded. Unknown Unknown Acquired by Trinity between 1688 and 1741/2. Rebound at Trinity by John Exshaw in 1741/2 (Brooks 1951). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, May 2004. Abbott, T. K. 1900.