• Illuminated border and initial 'F'(or)., Medical miscellany, including a lunary (ff. 6v-7); anonymous text on humours, elements, and urines, a calendar (ff. 11-21v); Guy of Chauliac's Anatomy; a treatise on complexions

1 is a paper flyleaf.Added texts ff. 23v,180v-184v. Full-page outline drawing in brown of a Zodiac man with labelling in blue and gold (f. 2). 2 full border in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff. 25, 43), and

• Drawing of a Zodiac man., Medical miscellany, including a lunary (ff. 6v-7); anonymous text on humours, elements, and urines, a calendar (ff. 11-21v); Guy of Chauliac's Anatomy; a treatise on complexions

1 is a paper flyleaf.Added texts ff. 23v,180v-184v. Full-page outline drawing in brown of a Zodiac man with labelling in blue and gold (f. 2). 2 full border in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff. 25, 43), and

• Foliate initial 'H'(istoria), at the beginning of Exodus., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Text page with initials with penwork decoration., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Foliate initial 'Q'., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Foliate initials 'L'(iber) and 'F'(actum est ) at the beginning of Josue., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Illuminated initial 'F'(uit) and 'M'(ense)., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno)., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum, and the inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

s(an)c(t)e marie in Eb(ir)bach' (ff. 1, 145v), and mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as '7 [sign after 'Z'] 1' or 'a29' (see Palmer 1998, pp. 258, 262).Inscribed 'Z 140' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a

• Puzzle initial 'V'(estra) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium., De disciplina scholarium, with glosses

the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, and decorated extension (f. 1). Small initials in plain red or blue. 1 marginal drawing of a head, 15th

• Decorated initials 'T'(his) and 'S'(omtyme) with acanthus leaves combined with a partial bar border with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering, at the beginning of the text. Ownership inscription of William Lambarde in the upper right corner., The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)

in colours and gold with acanthus leaves combined with a partial bar border with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering (f. 1). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs in red or blue. The Prose Brut Chronicle

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of Psalm 1., Breviary, Use of Sarum, vol. 2, imperfect

of David playing the harp, combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of Psalm 1. In 2 volumes, vol. 1 is Harley 1797.Beginning with the Psalms, followed by various litanies including Albine, Eusebi, Swythune, Byrine, Affra, Editha,

• Foliate initial 'R'(everendo) at the beginning of the prologue; a historiated initial 'I'(mperatorie) of three heads of kings, at the beginning of the Historia Scholastica, and a foliate initial 'I'(n principio), at the beginning of the chapter 'De creatione empyrei et quatuor elementorum', with an inscription stating that the book was given to the cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester by Radulphus de Stoke, and numbered III, reading 'III Per Radulphu[m] de Stoke mo[nacu]m. Li/ber histo[riarum] scolastica[rum] de claustro / Roffens[i] q[ue]m q[ui] inde alienav[er]it alienatu[m] / celav[er]it vel hu[n]c titulu[m] in fraude[m] delev[er]it / Anathema sit Amen./'., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Inscription recording a pledge of the book by Thomas Wybarn, monk of Rochester, in 1468 with 3 other books, in Chichele chest, Oxford, reading 'Liber Sexti cum glossa ordinaria', ' Magister Sententiarum' [Petrus Lombardus], and 'Originalia Anselmi: 'Caucio Tho[m]e Wybarn. ...in cista de chichele a[nn]o d[omini] m cccc sexa[gesi]mo octavo / vincesimo die m[en]sis augusti...'., Historia scolastica

Sens (f. 1).Quire signatures. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1), and 15 foliate initials, sometimes with small animals, in colours and gold, with display script, at the beginning of chapters and prologues (ff. 1, 24v, 37v, 42v,

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before a seated Virgin and Child with the infant John within an ornate border of scroll-work with putti, maidens, garlands, the lion of Mark and the Pasquaglio family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a member of the Pasquaglio family of Venice

Add. 20916, ff. 10-15 and 17. To see this leaf in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 20916, ff. 10-17. 1 full-page miniature in colours and gold, of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before a seated Virgin and Child

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnis), at the beginning of Hippocrates' Prognostica., Medical miscellany (ends imperfectly), including Hippocrates' Prognostica

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XII.6.20’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of

• Detail of a double portrait of Roman heads., Imagines Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistrum Equitum, Tribuni-Militum consularis potestatis, ab urbe condita usque ad C. Jul. Caesarem Dictatorem. Parens Patriae (vol. 1)

Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistrum Equitum, Tribuni-Militum consularis potestatis, ab urbe condita usque ad C. Jul. Caesarem Dictatorem. Parens Patriae (vol. 1) Albrecht (b. 1528, d. 1579), Duke of Bavaria: his portrait, the inscription 'Albertus Dei gratia Comes Palatinus ac utriusque

• Decorated initial 'W', at the beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales., Canterbury Tales (begins and ends imperfectly)

parchment leaves inserted after ff. 13, 14, 62 (x2), 80, 119, 124, 137. 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground, with foliate extensions into the margins (f. 4). Initials in gold on red and blue grounds,

• Detail of text page., Canterbury Tales (begins and ends imperfectly)

ff. 13, 14, 62 (x2), 80, 119, 124, 137. 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground, with foliate extensions into the margins (f. 4). Initials in gold on red and blue grounds, with foliate extensions into

• Text page., Canterbury Tales (begins and ends imperfectly)

13, 14, 62 (x2), 80, 119, 124, 137. 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground, with foliate extensions into the margins (f. 4). Initials in gold on red and blue grounds, with foliate extensions into the