• 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

in armour, probably Thomas Montague (index Montacute), Earl of Salisbury (f. 1*). Added tinted drawing Part 1:Added poem (on the Chaucer page), 15th century:'Off worthy Chaucerhere the pickture stoodThat much did wryghtand all to doo us good.Summe ffuryous ffoole have

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall , London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 33, no. 454.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

with reference to Fein (2003). Bennett, M. 1982. ‘ John Audelay: Some New Evidence on his Life and Work ’ Chaucer Review , 16, 344-55. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce