• Detail of a miniature of a messenger presenting a letter to a lady., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniatureof a queen with four women playing musical instruments., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Boccaccio presenting his book to the Countess., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Text page., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Miniature of a festival of the goddess Flora., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Eve, crowned, talking to the serpent, with an avenging angel above., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Boccaccio reading a book., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Miniature of Medea, with Jason on a horse and a slaughter of a child, at the beginning of chapter 17., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• null, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Argia discovering the dead body of her husband, Polynices., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Manto, the daughter of Tiresias, stirring a fire., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Detail of a miniature of Camilla, queen of the Volscians, hunting., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Miniature of Camilla, queen of the Volscians, hunting., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book

• Initial 'A' with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of John Capgrave's Life of Catherine., The Life of Catherine (ff. 1-117v), etc.

at the beginning of John Capgrave's Life of Catherine. 1 large initial in red with pen-flourishing in brown (f. 1). Smaller initials in plain red. Capital letters highlighted in red. The Life of Catherine (ff. 1-117v), etc. Table for Easter

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulta)., Commentary on Malachi and Homilies

and Homilies The Benedictine abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester: perhaps to be identified with a volume mentioned by John Leland, (see John Leland ~Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis~, ed. by A. Hall (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1709), p. 216, and ~Joannis Lelandi antiquarii

• Drawings of furnaces, stills, jars for drawing off liquid, and other apparatus used for the alchemical transmutation of metals and for preparing medicines., Medical miscellany, including Arderne's Liber medicinarum (ff. 26-99); list of herbs in Latin and English

herbs in Latin and English Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Apparatus John Arderne England

• Decorated initial 'C'(reacio) of the arms of St. Albans abbey, surrounded by an inscription 'Beauer / ab aduersis / Albon tueatur / in armis', with a full foliate border., Liber de exemplis sacre scripture; Commentary on Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus

Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus Lord John Beaver, a monk of St. Albans, commissioned by him and given to the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans with the permission of John Whethamstede, abbot of St. Albans (1420-1440): inscribed, 'Hunc

• Illuminated initial 'A'(brahe) with John's Beaver initials, 'IB', and a partial border., Liber de exemplis sacre scripture; Commentary on Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus

Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus Lord John Beaver, a monk of St. Albans, commissioned by him and given to the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans with the permission of John Whethamstede, abbot of St. Albans (1420-1440): inscribed, 'Hunc

• Illuminated initial 'O'(mnis) with John's Beaver initials, 'IB', and a partial border., Liber de exemplis sacre scripture; Commentary on Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus

Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus Lord John Beaver, a monk of St. Albans, commissioned by him and given to the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans with the permission of John Whethamstede, abbot of St. Albans (1420-1440): inscribed, 'Hunc

• Decorated initial 'R'(icardus) combined with a three-sided foliate border including acanthus leaves, at the beginning of the text., Registrum brevium for the reign of Richard II (r. 1377-1399)

of contents, 15th century (ff. 1-11v).Added texts, 15th century (ff. 336v and 337v).John Killingworth, (possibly the John Killingworth of Queen's College, Cambridge), 1566: inscribed 'John Killingworth. Anno Domini 1566' (f. 335).Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector,