• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of Fraunce, Of kniȝtes þat were in destaunce, þat dyed þurth dint of sward:, Of Rouland & of Oliuer, & of þe oþer dusseper,, Of Alisander & Charlmeyn, & Ector þe gret werrer, & of Danys le fiz Oger,,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of Witt, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, The Seven Sages of Rome and Guy of Warwick (different version). BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Fragments. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: King Richard, Sir Beues

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of England, Camden Society, 6 (London: Nichols, 1839). Re-issued by P. R. Coss (ed. and intro.), Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). D. Laing, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1837). Index 1857. The Sayings

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

he;, þilke of Baþe he hadde also, , þat at Welles wonede þo;, þilke of Chichester & of Winchester,, & eke þe bischop of Excester, þe fift was, wiþouten feyle,, At Seyn Jermain in Cornewaile., þe king of Merken merche,,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

C. Horstmann, 'Life of Adam and Eve', Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878; reprinted Hildeshein and New York: G. Olms, 1969): 139-147. Corrections in: A. J. Bliss, 'The Auchinleck Life of Adam and Eve', Review of English Studies, ns

• Detail of decorated initial 'U'., Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany, including the Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 100-108v; 109-34), the Mirror of Light (ff. 155-168); Cistercian statuta and ordinationes (ff. 200-220); De sphaera (ff. 59-75); algorismus with commentary (ff. 26-43)

Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Richard Dove of Buckfast, John Metham, and others England

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome writing, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of the prologue., Bible (Octateuch)

beginning of the prologue. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this manuscript was designed as part of a set of

• Detail of an historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome writing, at the beginning of the prologue., Bible (Octateuch)

Detail of an historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome writing, at the beginning of the prologue. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A.

• Detail of a border with a medallion of Descent into Limbo in the lower margin., Bible (Octateuch)

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Days of Creation with Adam and Eve cycle

• Detail of a miniature of Adam and Eve, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

Detail of a miniature of Adam and Eve, at the beginning of Genesis. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this