• Blank folio., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Blank folio Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Pegasus at the foot of a mountain., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

under his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Pegasus Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of the personification of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Seven Liberal Arts Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Four Muses: Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Euterpe (music) and Thalia (comedy)., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Four Muses Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Four Muses: Polyhymnia (choral poetry), Erato (lyric poetry), Terpsichore (dance) and Urania (astrology)., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Four Muses Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Calliope, the muse of heroic or epic poetry. She stands before a vase-shaped fountain with water flowing out, and plays a horn., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

under his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calliope Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature with Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now worn by withering age, the meaning of which he was not at all able to make out. An Old Man, who was a native of the place, saw that he and his companions were uncertain about the picture. When asked by Cebes, he uncovered the meanings veiled in the figures and, taking up a pointer, he explained the whole thing in order (see Carlson 1993)., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now

• Decorated initial at the beginning of the canon of the mass., Cistercian Missal, imperfect

mass. f. 8* is a small parchment insertion.One of five English Cistercian missals currently known (see Chadd 1986 p. 306). 3 large initials in blue or green, with red penwork decoration, or in red with blue penwork decoration, at the

• Decorated initial 'F'(ur in see bi west Spaynge) at the beginning of the poem, The Land of Cokaygne, which begins: 'Far out to see and west of Spain / There is a country named Cockaygne. / No place no earth compares to this / For sheer delightfulness and bliss.', The Kildare Lyrics, including the Land of Cokaygne (ff. 3-6v)

Land of Cockaygne, survives only in this manuscript. For the full text of the poem and two versions in modern English, see: <http://www.thegoldendream.com/landofcokaygne.htm> [accessed 8 September 2008]. Large initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.

• Decorated initial 'H'(eri) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the sermon of Fulgentius for the feast of Stephen, at the beginning fo the Sanctorale., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Detail of an illuminated initial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ixi)., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Illuminated intial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Decorated initials., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Scholar Iohannis de Ianua, Iohannes (Danck) de Saxonia and others France, Central (Paris)

• Detail of historiated initial of Christ showing his wounds, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Miniature of the Crucifixion with a couple in prayer, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Adoration of the Magi, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Slaughter of the Innocents, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000