• Initial ''P'(uer) at the beginning of Peter of Blois's Sermon V In nativitate domini., Epistola ad Paulinum (Epistle 53) (ff. 1-4v); Sermones; verses and tabulae (ff. 123v-124v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 9; its book-plate with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 10.16', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Donor inscription, recording the gift of the manuscript to the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, with some red lettering., Gospel Lectionary (volume two of Royal 2 B XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary)

XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary) The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c. 1450, d. 1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-1509) and his wife Margaret in 1508:

• Miniature of John the Baptist with the Agnus Dei, flanked by a lion and a unicorn, with a hedgehog at his feet., Gospel Lectionary (volume two of Royal 2 B XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary)

XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary) The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c. 1450, d. 1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-1509) and his wife Margaret in 1508:

• Detail of a miniature of John the Baptist with the Agnus Dei, flanked by a lion and a unicorn, with a hedgehog at his feet., Gospel Lectionary (volume two of Royal 2 B XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary)

XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary) The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c. 1450, d. 1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-1509) and his wife Margaret in 1508:

• Text page., Gospel Lectionary (volume two of Royal 2 B XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary)

XII, which contains an Epistle Lectionary) The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c. 1450, d. 1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-1509) and his wife Margaret in 1508:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Cotton Vitellius D.iii s. xiii ex English French Latin Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 399 233, LP 7120 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late thirteenth-century manuscript (Guddat-Figge suggests a date of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

so closely related, they effectively constitute only a single witness to the authorial text', Cartlidge, p. xl. Rela ted to London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. ix. They share the same copytext according to Cartlidge (2001, p. xl), who

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

MS. Claudius A. II , EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Thomson, D., ed, 1984. An Edition of the Middle English grammatical texts , Garland Medieval Texts, 8, London: Garland, pp. 56-58. Thomson, D. 1977. ‘

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

New York and London: Modern Language Association of America. Blom-Smith, E. M. 1992. ‘ The Lyf of Oure Lord and the Virgyn Mary edited from MS Trinity College Cambridge B.15.32 and MS Bodley 578 ’ , diss. London. Holmstedt, G.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

F. L., 1979. Medieval English Songs , London and Boston: Faber. Dodwell, C. R. 1961. Theophilus, De Diversis Artibus , London: Thomas Nelson. Duncan, T. G. ed. 1995. Medieval English Lyrics 1200-1400 , London: Penguin. Erickson, C. T. 1973. Le