• Coloured initial., Psalter

Coloured initial. 1 decorated headpiece (f. 2). Large initials in plain red. Psalter Inscription in Russian (f. 1).Inscribed 'Ex dono Will(hel)mi Skinner Armig(?)' (f. 1). Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 3 Henry V (c.1387 - 1422)

3 large and 1 smaller decorated foliate initials, the first accompanied by a full, the others by a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 100v, 166v, 202). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in

• Illuminated initial 'H'(agelylaus) in Cornelius Nepos's Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium., Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium

Illuminated initial 'H'(agelylaus) in Cornelius Nepos's Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium. 1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red

• null, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium

1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium Unidentified original(?)

• null, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium

1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium Unidentified original(?)

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a later hand, regarding the Holy Blood of Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire. Latin Codex Parchment 265 190 mm ii + 1 6 (wants 4); 2 8 , ff. 6r-13v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 14r-21v, catchword; 4 8 , ff.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

188v-190r, with the title 'Practica Edwardi [Nigri ] , Universitatis Oxonie qui fuit...cirurgicus'. Codex Paper and parchment. 250 195 mm 1 8 ; 2-7 12 ; 8 11 ; 9-10 10 . Pricking: none apparent. Writing space of 195 x

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Library Additional 36791 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 437 258, LP 8070 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 245). An early fifteenth-century copy (c. 1425) of the Speculum Sacerdotale : a series of addresses

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

155 mm Collation: Rebinding obscures evidence; probably eights throughout. Item 1: Page layout - single columns, 30 lines, drypoint, pricking not visible. Writing space - 185 x 105 mm. Item 1: One or possibly two scribes writing in an Anglicana

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

poet. 141 SC 14635 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 295, LP 237 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p.