• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a woman, carrying a child and followed by a lion, walking towards a boat., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man with a lion in a boat, approached by a woman leading children., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two men approaching a sleeping woman and children guarded by a lion., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two men carrying infants., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two men carrying children to women in a building., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop baptising children in a font., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of an 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)., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 1 with, on one side a pen & brown ink wash faintly tinted in red, and on the verso, recipes in English. It

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plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• null, Medical treatises

plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• Drawing of flasks., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• 3 jars., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• Coloured initials., 5 wisdom books from the Old Testament, including part of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus (the 'Egerton Codex')

or red. 5 wisdom books from the Old Testament, including part of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus (the 'Egerton Codex') Purchased by the British Museum from William Pickering on 11 November 1843 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Coloured initial and display script., Part of the Old Testament, including part of Canticum canticorum

of letters in yellow, red, or blue. Part of the Old Testament, including part of Canticum canticorum Purchased by the British Museum from William Pickering on 11 November 1843 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment

in red. Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment The Cistercian nunnery of St Mary and St Mauritius, Medingen, lower Saxony: inscription 'Liber sanctae Marie virginis sanctique mauritii in medinghe' (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Diagrams of some 'pictura urinarum', in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Drawing of a zodiacal man, in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Medallion of Taurus and the illuminated initial 'T'(aurus)., Fragment of an astrological treatise, including a text on the use of spheres (ff. 6v-7v)

unfoliated leaf and f. i are a late 16th-century paper codex in English. 3 medallions of Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 4v, 5v). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with sprays

• Medallion of Scorpio and the illuminated initial 'S'(corpio)., Fragment of an astrological treatise, including a text on the use of spheres (ff. 6v-7v)

unfoliated leaf and f. i are a late 16th-century paper codex in English. 3 medallions of Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 4v, 5v). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with sprays

• Decorated initial with a leaf pattern., Collection of alchemical secrets

or pen-flourishing. Large initials in brown with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Collection of alchemical secrets Later additions in English and Latin, and alchemical symbols (ff. 17v-20; 30-37; 50v-51v; 65-66, 72v-75v; 89v).John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers,

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi (at left of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings