• Detail of a drawing of a Zodiac man., Medical miscellany

zodiacical figures, 1 in brown ink, 2 with red, yellow and light pink (ff. 36v, 37, 46). 4 Diagrams including a diagram of the world (f. 36). Large and small initials in plain red, some with reserved designs. 1 large

• Detail of a drawing of a Zodiac man., Medical miscellany

zodiacical figures, 1 in brown ink, 2 with red, yellow and light pink (ff. 36v, 37, 46). 4 Diagrams including a diagram of the world (f. 36). Large and small initials in plain red, some with reserved designs. 1 large

• Detail of a drawing of a vein man., Medical miscellany

zodiacical figures, 1 in brown ink, 2 with red, yellow and light pink (ff. 36v, 37, 46). 4 Diagrams including a diagram of the world (f. 36). Large and small initials in plain red, some with reserved designs. 1 large

• Drawing of man with notes of body parts., Medical miscellany

zodiacical figures, 1 in brown ink, 2 with red, yellow and light pink (ff. 36v, 37, 46). 4 Diagrams including a diagram of the world (f. 36). Large and small initials in plain red, some with reserved designs. 1 large

• Scholia before Dionysius Periegetes's Orbis descriptio, with a life of Dionysios and diagrams of the twelve winds., Orbis descriptio, with preceding scholia

(f. 1). Small red initials, some with foliate decoration. Brown and red diagrams, with foliate decoration (ff. 41v, 42). Small coloured marginal diagram (f. 48v). Orbis descriptio, with preceding scholia Marcos Mamuna and George Count of Corinth (inscriptions, ff. 1,

• Inhabited illuminated initial 'P'(rimum) with human figures and animals, at the beginning of book 1., De universo seu De rerum naturis

and animals, at the beginning of book 1. Includes the De universo seu De rerum naturis, an encyclopaedia arranged in 22 books, based on the 'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and

• Foliate initial 'C'(lemens) with a medallion of a portrait of the author, pope Clement I, at the beginning of the text., Collectio Lanfranci

Quire signatures.One of 12 surviving English Romanesque copies of the text. 1 large foliate initial with a medallion of a portrait of the author, in colours and gold (f. 1). Decorated initials, some with arabesque ornament, in green, red, purple,

• Historiated initial 'C'(ome) of king Edward III, crowned with a scepter on a throne, and a full border with a dragon, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

with a dragon, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Decorated initial 'R'(ichard), with a bar and foliate extensions, at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Decorated headpiece and brown initial 'K'(ai), in the Apophthegemata Patrum., Apophthegemata Patrum, of 'Sabaite type'

profuse 17th century annotations added throughout.Emmanouel Kallonas (second half of the 17th century inscription, vol. 1, f. 1).Partial Greek inscription dated 2 March 1681 (vol. 1, f. 1).Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art:

• Decorated braided headpiece and decorated initial at the beginning of the Apophthegemata Patrum., Apophthegemata Patrum, of 'Sabaite type'

profuse 17th century annotations added throughout.Emmanouel Kallonas (second half of the 17th century inscription, vol. 1, f. 1).Partial Greek inscription dated 2 March 1681 (vol. 1, f. 1).Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art:

• Roundel with the Nativity, surrounded by roundels with prophets, accompanied by Moses and Aaron. Roundel with the Adoration of the Magis, surrounded by roundels with prophets, accompanied by king David and Abner, and king Salomon and the queen of Sheba., Miscellany

The Carthusian abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber e(st) fr(atru)m Carthusie(n)siu(m) p(ro)pe Magu(n)cia(m)' (f. 1, cf. 46v). Inscribed 'Z 261' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a 'Z' followed by a number are found in a significant number

• Roundel with Judas receiving the 30 pieces of silver, surrounded by roundels with prophets, accompanied by scenes with Joseph. Roundel with the Arrest of Christ, surrounded by roundels with prophets, accompanied by scenes with Joab and Abner and a scene with Tryphon., Miscellany

The Carthusian abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber e(st) fr(atru)m Carthusie(n)siu(m) p(ro)pe Magu(n)cia(m)' (f. 1, cf. 46v). Inscribed 'Z 261' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a 'Z' followed by a number are found in a significant number

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with king David playing the harp, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, followed by Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, adapted to the use of Ely

playing the harp, at the beginning of Psalm 1. The litany is written in two columns. 9 large historiated initials, some with extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 1. 22v, 36v, 48, 61v, 78v, 94v, 96v, 112).

• Historiated initial 'C'(ome) of king Edward III, crowned with a scepter on a throne, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

on a throne, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Decorated initial 'R'(ichard), at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Puzzle initial 'A'(ppellationibus), in Bartolus de Saxoferrato's Commentary on the first and second part of the New Digest., Commentary on the first and second part of the Digestum novum

de remissione mercedis (ff. 337v-338). 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 55, 140, 299). Smaller and small initials in red with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing or in blue with

• Miniature in four compartments: 1. Solomon instructing Rehoboam; 2. Solomon ordering three sons to shoot at their father's corpse to test their legitimacy; 3. The Judgement of Solomon; 4. Solomon and three men; and a foliate initial 'L'(es paraboles) with a full border and a bas-de-page scene of a lion, a dog and four apes, at the beginning of Proverbs., La Bible historiale complétée (Genesis - Psalms)

Bible of Jean de Sy.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 large miniature partially in grisaille, colours and gold, with a full border containing historiated medallions, at the beginning of the text (f. 1). 51 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille, colours and

• Miniature with a dead landscape, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's De mortis effectibus, on the facing page a brief prose letter addressed to Joachim Bretoner., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

in colours, gold and silver (ff. 1, 3). 5 large foliate initials, in colours, gold and silver (ff. 7, 11, 14, 19, 25v). 1 smaller initial in gold on a red ground (f. 21). 1 small initial in gold on

• Four miniatures: 1. the Ark with the dove and the rave; 2. the Sin of Ham; 3. the building of the Tower of Babel; 4. the separation of Abraham and Lot., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

miniatures: 1. the Ark with the dove and the rave; 2. the Sin of Ham; 3. the building of the Tower of Babel; 4. the separation of Abraham and Lot. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne