• Detail of a miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Puzzle initial ‘A’(u), at the beginning of part II., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial

• Colophon reading 'Ce livre est accompli et achive / le vendredi ixe jour de juil/let lan mil iiiic. xxviii. / deo gracias'., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Colophon Durandus

• Diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including John Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. 3-6), eclipse canon (f. 7), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1431 to 1462 (ff. 8-10)

the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Initials in gold on background of blue and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Bowers, R. H. 1960. ‘ A Middle English Wheel of Fortune Poem ’ , English Studies , 41, 197-198. Dennison, L., Driver,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

woldust lorde'. English f. 9r-v Psalter of the Passion 'De psalterio passionis'. A sequence of Latin prayers with English instructions. English Latin f. 9r Instructions for prayer ( IMEV 3888 ) 'Wele is him þat wele can'. English f. 9r

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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 to

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 71-73. McIntosh,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

roberto glocestrensi qui codem tempore floruit'. 'Engelond his a wel god lond'. 'of holichurche me'. English Rubric added by a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand. f. 14r Abridged English Metrical Brut (IMEV 1105 ) '...þe king hid regnete king bladud'. 'soffret him bifore...'.