• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(Saepe) in foliate forms and an animal's neck and head, at the beginning of Cicero's De inventione, and the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London in the lower margin., De inventione (index Rhetorica); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• 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:

• 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

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

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