• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

frere To preche and eek to begge it is no doute In which þer wente a lymytour aboute , A mersshy countre called holdernesse LOrdynges þer is in york schire , as I gesse Here begynneþ þe Somnours tale ,

• Illuminated puzzle initials 'Q'(ue) and 'D'(ixit), with line flourishing in blue., Leaves from a Book of Hours, containing the text for the Hours of the Virgin as said during Advent (ff. 1-3), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 4-8), Litanies (ff. 8-12), and Office of the Dead (ff. 13-21), Use of Rome

'?Bologna, first half of 15th century (opinion of Dr Otto Pacht)'. Harry and Virginia Walton, of New York: their sale, Blomsbury Auction, New York, 4 April 2009, lot 7; purchased by The British Library. Puzzle initials Master of the Brussels

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Peter, with the descender of the letter composed of a foliate extension of acanthus leaves (centre)., Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale)

Ms 978, no. D. 218-1906. See Laurence B. Kanter and others, ~Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450~ (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), pp. 155-76 [exhibition catalogue] and Gaudenz Freuler, 'Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci', in ~Dizionario Biografico

• null, Château d'Amour, called 'The Myrour of Lewed Men' (translated into English)

(£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Flourished initials Robert Grosseteste York England, N. E.? (York)

• Full page miniatures of the fortified town of York., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. York Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) York England, N. (York ?)

• Text page., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Text page Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) York England, N. (York ?)

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America, 373n., pp. 539-40. De Ricci, S., and Wilson, W. J. 1935. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Unitied States and Canada , New York: Wilson, i, p.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

T. ed, 1859-61. Political Poems and Songs relating to English history, composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III to that of Ric. III , Rolls Series 14, 2 vols, New York: Kraus Reprint 1964, i, p. 363.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

S., and Wilson, W. J. 1935. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Unitied States and Canada , New York: Wilson, i, p. 53. Dutschke, C. W. 1989. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library ,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography , Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America, p. 373, n. 1. Buelbring, K. D. 1897. ‘ Zu Den Handscriften

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

in Pearsall, D., ed, New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies. Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference , York: The University of York Centre for Medieval Studies, pp. 103-129. K0lbing, E., and Day, M., ed, 1932. The Siege of Jerusalem,