• Inscription: inscribed 'orate p[ro] bono statu Wylliamus meddelton/ Orate p[ro] animab[us] s[ir] robert[us] massam et alc. /meddelton',, Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)

the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8508).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inscription England

• Inscription: 'Liber [regis] Ric[ard]i [secundi] quem fecit fieri motu p[ro]prio anno / regni [sui] Anglie et Franc[ie] quartodecimo'., Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)

the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8508).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inscription England

• Detail of miniatures of two figures in two compartments, relating to the accompanying astrological tables., Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)

1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8508).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Astrological tables England

• Miniatures of two figures in two compartments, relating to the accompanying astrological tables., Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)

1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8508).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Astrological diagram England

• Table of the reigns of Old Testament kings, in the genealogy of Christ., Theological miscellany, including the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (ff. 33-38v)

the reigns of Old Testament kings, in the genealogy of Christ. Quire marks (e.g. f. 44v, 'i'); catchwords (e.g. ff. 105v, 113v).ff. 1-2 are paper, and were added in the 16th or 17th century. Schematic plan of the city of

• Coloured initial., Isidore's 'Etymologies' (index Etymologiae, Origines), Book VIII, and 'De officiis', excerpts (ff. 1-10); Augustine's 'Enchiridion' (ff. 11v-58) preceded by a table of chapter incipits (ff. 10v-11v); 'Praedicatio de Natale domini' (ff. 58v-61); Sermons and text on the number three (ff. 61-66v); Candidus's 'Expositio passionis Iesu Christi', possibly imperfect at the end (ff. 66v-96v)

imperfect at the end (ff. 66v-96v) Interlinear and marginal notes in caroline script throughout and an interlinear pen trial in Old High German (f. 66v).? Cologne Cathedral (see Krämer 1989).Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and

• Text pahe with the script of one of the most important of the many scribes who worked at St. Albans in the 12th century, 'The St. Albans Calligrapher'., Breviary

his name, 16th century (ff. 1, 220).Wallyngfforthe, inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 220). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page St Albans England, S. (St Albans)

• Miniatures of two figures in two compartments, relating to the accompanying astrological tables., Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)

1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8508).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Astrological tables England

• Historiated initial 'C'(este) of a bishop (probably saint Edmund) holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog chasing a hare, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae., Livre de Sydrac (index Book of Sydrac; Book of Sidrac; La Fontaine de toutes sciences; Le Tresor des sciences; Le Roman du philosophe Sydrac)(ff. 1-140); Edmund's 'Mireour de seinte eglise' (index Speculum ecclesiae; Miroir de sainte eglise; Mirror of the church)(ff. 141-156); a short text in Latin attributed to Ambrose (f. 156); La vie nostre dame seinte marie' (f. 156); Robert Grosseteste's Commencement du monde (ff. 156-168)

the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae. f. 1* is a parchment fragment, probably from a 14th-century charter, written in an English cursive hand. f. 2* is a parchment leaf with later inscriptions.Beginning with a prologue, an argumentum, and a list

• Inscription stating that the manuscript was given to the St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, by king Æthelstan, reading 'hunc codicem Ædelstan rex devota / mente Dorobernensi tribuit eccl[esi]e / beato Augustino dicate et quisquis / hoc legerit omnipotenti pro eo pro/que suis fundat preces.', Gospels

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inscription France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'I'(nitium) with interlaced and zoomorphic ornament, at the beginning of Mark., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'L'(iber) with display script, at the beginning of Matthew., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'X'(PI] at the beginning of Matthew 1:18., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcus) with interlaced and zoomorphic ornament., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'D'(e Iohanne Baptista) with interlaced and zoomorphic ornament., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with display script, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Decorated initial 'I'(n principio) with interlaced and zoomorphic ornament, at the beginning of John., Gospels

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7905).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial France, N. W. France, N. W. (Brittany)

• Miniature of the prophet Daniel holding a scroll; miniature of a Jew holding a scroll while a devil stretches a blindfold over his eyes, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; miniature of the prophet Malachai holding a scroll, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

devil stretches a blindfold over his eyes, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; miniature of the prophet Malachai holding a scroll, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. The text is originally

• Miniature of a Jew holding an open book, while a devil covers his eyes and steps on his foot, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy concerning the Curse of the Serpent and the Burning Bush (Genesis 3); miniature of Peter holding a scroll; miniature of Paul holding a scroll, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

steps on his foot, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy concerning the Curse of the Serpent and the Burning Bush (Genesis 3); miniature of Peter holding a scroll; miniature of Paul holding

• Miniature of a Jew holding an open book, while a devil distracts him from reading, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy concerning Aaron's rod; miniature of Gregory holding a scroll, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

from reading, representing the blindness of the Jews to the Christian fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy concerning Aaron's rod; miniature of Gregory holding a scroll, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. The text is originally a Provencal poem composed