• Miniature of the author of the chronicle, standing behind a brown scroll on which is inscribed the title of the work, in gold letters; behind him, to the left, two lions support the old arms of Burgundy, with shelves of books on the right., Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne

the title of the work, in gold letters; behind him, to the left, two lions support the old arms of Burgundy, with shelves of books on the right. The text is ascribed traditionally to Olivier de la Marche, but it

• The arms of Thomas Wall, Windsor herald, in the right margin, the signature of Jo Starkey, in the upper margin, that of Sir Robert Cotton ('Robert Cotton Bruceaus') with the date 1610 in the lower margin., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

our Lorde 1525. Wyttenesse Robert Lytylbouroug Sayewell etc, the viiith day of May', together with other inscriptions in French and English in Gothic cursive (f. 130v).? John Starky (d. 1613), father of Ralph Starkey, a close associate of Sir Robert

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

our Lorde 1525. Wyttenesse Robert Lytylbouroug Sayewell etc, the viiith day of May', together with other inscriptions in French and English in Gothic cursive (f. 130v).? John Starky (d. 1613), father of Ralph Starkey, a close associate of Sir Robert

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, urns, and bezants, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, urns, horns and bezants, measuring 360 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 40 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 40 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, bezants, and an anthropomorphic head, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• Section of border with floral motifs, bezants and two zoomorphic heads. Remnants of illumination visible on reverse, measuring 40 x 175 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• Section of border with floral motifs and bezants, measuring 70 x 175 mm. Similar decoration visible on reverse., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• Section of border with floral motif, an urn and bezants, measuring 65 x 170 mm. Similar decoration visible on the reverse., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• Section of border with floral motifs and bezants. Similar decoration visible on reverse, measuring 35 x 170 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are: From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see

• Miniature of Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis. On Jean Coene IV see generally Eberhard König, ~Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris~, Leuchtendes Mittelalter Neue Folge, (Passau: Passavia, 1997- ), I (1997), 320. 7 full-page miniatures in colours, gold

• Decorated initial 'A'(s) with pen-flourishing., Poems, imperfect

poems on diet (f. 4v), human complexions and physiognomy (ff. 78v-79, 79-79v) and 'The Secrees of Old Philosoffres' (ff. 188v-224).Folios missing after ff. 18, 123, 135, 178, 183, 260, f. 273v is blank. The foliation is probably original.Catchwords written horizontally.For

• Detail of added marginal annotation (in the hand of Humfrey Wanley?)., Poems, imperfect

died in 1449.Including poems on diet (f. 4v), human complexions and physiognomy (ff. 78v-79, 79-79v) and 'The Secrees of Old Philosoffres' (ff. 188v-224).Folios missing after ff. 18, 123, 135, 178, 183, 260, f. 273v is blank. The foliation is probably

• Full-page border and section of border pasted at its centre in colours and gold with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, and bezants., Cuttings from a manuscript of Innocent VIII

be from his collection (see below), but not identifiable in his sale, 28 April 1856.Thomas Miller Whitehead (d. before 1898), English collector: inscribed on verso 'Ornament from a M. S. in folio executed for Pope Innocent VIII / between 1484-1492

• Ownership inscription by Thomas Cleobury, antepenultimate abbot of Dore, dated 1526., Miscellany, including and astrological treatise entitled 'De temporibus mundi' dated 1445 (ff. 73-79), an English chronicle in verse (ff. 79v-83), a poem on the life and passion of Jesus Christ entitled 'Meditacions on the soper' (ff. 83-102), and the fragment of a calendar, January to March (ff. 102v-104v)

added by a child (ff. 102v-103v). Miscellany, including and astrological treatise entitled 'De temporibus mundi' dated 1445 (ff. 73-79), an English chronicle in verse (ff. 79v-83), a poem on the life and passion of Jesus Christ entitled 'Meditacions on the

• Notes added by a reader in 1512 to the margin of a page of Johann Lichtenberger, 'Prognosticatio', printed in Strasburg by Kistler after 31 December 1499., Miscellany, including and astrological treatise entitled 'De temporibus mundi' dated 1445 (ff. 73-79), an English chronicle in verse (ff. 79v-83), a poem on the life and passion of Jesus Christ entitled 'Meditacions on the soper' (ff. 83-102), and the fragment of a calendar, January to March (ff. 102v-104v)

added by a child (ff. 102v-103v). Miscellany, including and astrological treatise entitled 'De temporibus mundi' dated 1445 (ff. 73-79), an English chronicle in verse (ff. 79v-83), a poem on the life and passion of Jesus Christ entitled 'Meditacions on the

• Detail of a miniature of Paul writing an epistle, with a messenger waiting to carry it for him, and with John Colet, kneeling, with the full border including flowers, insects and a peacock, and a foliate initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Romans., Pauline and Catholic Epistles in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

ac Serenissimi Re/gis Anglie Henrici Septimi vigesimo s[e]c[un]do. / ...'(vol. II, f. 358v). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Pieter Meghen Pieter Meghen London England, S. E (London)