• Decorated initial 'D'(eus) enclosing a star with partial ivy border at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Mistres Trygg for yt by hers' (f. 1).John Bird, by 1517: inscribed 'Of your charyte pray for the sole of John Byrd gentylman the wych departyd the ii dey of august in thys ix yere + rayne of kyng herry

• Cutting of an illuminated initial 'O', and below, f. 5, with an historiated initial 'D'(eus) of the Trinity., Initial from Jerome's commentary on Isaiah (index Commentarium in Isaiam), Book 5, fragment, on parchment

of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Originally trained and employed as a shoemaker, Bagford became a bookseller and antiquary, and

• Puzzle initials 'S'(ororem) and 'P'(oeta) at the beginning of Terence's Comedies., Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-29v), Eunuchus (ff. 30-74v), Heauton timoroumenos (ff. 75-115), Adelphoe (ff. 115-144), Hecyra (ff. 145-177), Phormio (ff. 177v-205v )

owners/readers, 16th century, several of them of Aldermaston, Berkshire: inscriptions, mainly in English, include mention of 'thys boke p(er)tenit to John …' (f. 1, effaced), 'Wyllyam forster knyght of Aldermasten' (ff. 1v), 'George Saltte of Aldermasten Servante unto humfrey fforster

• Illuminated white vine initial 'S'(i), at the beginning of Book 7 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• Illuminated white vine initials 'E'(t) at the last letter of Book 13, and the beginning of Book 14 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• lluminated white vine initial 'Q'(uod) in Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

(or Florence), possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including

• null, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-29v), Eunuchus (ff. 30-74v), Heauton timoroumenos (ff. 75-115), Adelphoe (ff. 115-144), Hecyra (ff. 145-177), Phormio (ff. 177v-205v )

owners/readers, 16th century, several of them of Aldermaston, Berkshire: inscriptions, mainly in English, include mention of 'thys boke p(er)tenit to John …' (f. 1, effaced), 'Wyllyam forster knyght of Aldermasten' (ff. 1v), 'George Saltte of Aldermasten Servante unto humfrey fforster

• null, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-29v), Eunuchus (ff. 30-74v), Heauton timoroumenos (ff. 75-115), Adelphoe (ff. 115-144), Hecyra (ff. 145-177), Phormio (ff. 177v-205v )

owners/readers, 16th century, several of them of Aldermaston, Berkshire: inscriptions, mainly in English, include mention of 'thys boke p(er)tenit to John …' (f. 1, effaced), 'Wyllyam forster knyght of Aldermasten' (ff. 1v), 'George Saltte of Aldermasten Servante unto humfrey fforster

• Detail of a miniature of Nebuchadnezzar, lying in bed, telling Daniel his dream, while Moses, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist sit enclosed in a circle of seraphs, and the Archangels Raphael, Gabriel and Michael stand below, in illustration of Paradiso, Canto IV., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

Detail of a miniature of Nebuchadnezzar, lying in bed, telling Daniel his dream, while Moses, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist sit enclosed in a circle of seraphs, and the Archangels Raphael, Gabriel and Michael stand below, in illustration

• Detail of a miniature of Dante being examined by James and John, with Christ and angels looking on., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

Dante being examined by James and John, with Christ and angels looking on. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, in building during these years. 3 large

• Detail of a miniature of Beatrice watching as Dante is examined by John the Evangelist, who stands within a circle of golden stars with five naked souls., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

watching as Dante is examined by John the Evangelist, who stands within a circle of golden stars with five naked souls. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence

• Historiated initial 'F'(ratres) with ?Paul holding a sword and book, decorated initials and full border with acanthus leaves, birds, butterflies and a space left blank originally intended for a coat of arms, at the beginning of the text., Breviary, Use of Rome, including a Psalter with a litany

Elizabeth and the infant John the Baptist (f. 376), Peter and Paul holding their attributes, the key and the sword (f. 381v), Assumption of the Virgin with cherubs (f. 411v), Virgin and Child (f. 424v), John the Evangelist blessing (f.

• Marginal miniatures of the kingship ritual in Trirconnell of killing of the white mare, the bath of a king in a stew of mare's meat, and eating of the meat by the king's supporters; and on the opposite page, two men of Connaugh in a boat called a curragh and an Irishman riding bare-chested on a horse., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Marginal miniatures of examples of bestiality: the Cow-stag of Chester, the woman of Connaught embracing a goat and Joanna of Paris embracing a lion, with an Irish cockerel, and Kevin of Glendalough allowing a bird to nest in his hand., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Coloured initials with penwork decoration., Fragment from a medical text, on parchment, containing part of Gariopontus of Salerno’s Passionarius, Book 2, the 2nd half of chapter LVIII "De tumore iecoris," through the first 1/3 of the Cura for chapter LIX "De scleria hepatis". The green initial "C" from (probably) ch. LXI "Collectio hepatis" or (the cura) "Cataplasmentur ex lini" is visible through the page.

of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th century, the drawings and printed book fragments from the volume were

• The upper pastedown, with a typical Bury press-mark, '.J. 7.' ('J' is for Jerome). To the right of this is an inscription headed 'A book of St. Edmund, in which are contained', followed by a note on the contents., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

note on the contents, beginning 'Liber sancti edmundi in quo continentur', c. 1375 (f. 1).? Possibly notes of 'the librarian', John of Boston 'Boston Buriensis', a monk of Bury St Edmunds (said to have fl. c. 1410) (ff. 1, 159);

• Inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Added tinted drawing

standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of