• Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses

Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1 large initial in red, with reserved designs, and pen-flourishing in brown with yellow wash (f. 1). Smaller initials and paraph marks in plain red. Metamorphoses Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Text page., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Text page., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Illuminated initial 'N'(ux)., Various poems, including Columella's De re rustica (ff. 1-9); Serenus's Liber medicinali (ff. 9-30v); Ibis (ff. 65-77); Nux (f. 79v-83), Medicamina faciei femineae; Aetna (ff. 52-64) (index Appendix Vergiliana)

in gold, with white vine stem decoration in colours (ff. 1, 9, 32, 52, 65, 77, 78, 79v, 83). Marginal heraldic decoration in colours and gold, now effaced (f. 1). Large simple initials in blue. Small simple initials in brown,

• Detail of illluminated initial., Jugurtha (ff. 1-54), Catilina (ff. 55-81v)

date April 1472. 2 large white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 55). Heraldic arms within a wreath, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large map of the world (f. 9v). Small initials in plain blue. Jugurtha

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

And byg&#563;neth his tale 76/1</ctp>.<resp>LC</resp> Whilom þer was dwellyng at Oxenford A riche gnof þat gestes heeld to boorde And of his craft he was a Carpenter Wiþ him þer was dwellyng a pore scoler Had lerned art but

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

is evident on folio 39r. The capital has been decorated using a shyning blue.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note><note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>There is a small pricking next L 1 of the prologue, which appears under the illumination and is visible from the verso of 39v.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> In al the

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

Incipit fabula Armigeri<note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>The ink in this folio is brown and becomes darker brown afterwards. NB an extra watermarked leafs was used here.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> At Sarray , in the lond of Tartarye There dwelled a kyng , that werred Russye Thorugh