• Initial 'H' at the beginning of Odo of Meung's De viribus herbarum., De viribus herbarum and a short medical text

viribus herbarum. Note that this is the oldest copy of the Old High German glosses on this text. 1puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 2). Other simple initials in red. Paraph marks in red.

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost) with floriate decoration at the beginning of Judges., History of the Old Testament (ff. 1-67v); Geographic description of Palestine (ff. 68-74)

one with blue circles and quatrefoils (f. 1). Diagrams. Highlights in red at the beginning of sentences. History of the Old Testament (ff. 1-67v); Geographic description of Palestine (ff. 68-74) Carthusians of Mainz: 14th-century inscription 'Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of Deuteronomy., History of the Old Testament (ff. 1-67v); Geographic description of Palestine (ff. 68-74)

one with blue circles and quatrefoils (f. 1). Diagrams. Highlights in red at the beginning of sentences. History of the Old Testament (ff. 1-67v); Geographic description of Palestine (ff. 68-74) Carthusians of Mainz: 14th-century inscription 'Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope

• Historiated initial 'D' of Christ blessing (upper centre)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

• Historiated initial 'D' of Christ blessing (centre)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

• Diagram showing Old Testament figures, etc., Breviari d'amor

showing Old Testament figures, etc. Instructions to the rubricator throughout. 2 full-page miniatures with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 9, 51). 11 large miniatures, the first with a large decorated initial and a full border

• Decorated initial 'E' before the first word 'Iste'., Charter, and Domesday book of the laws and usages of Ipswich

of the port of Ipswich, 3 Richard II [1379] (ff. 2-3); and other notes and verses in French, Latin and English (ff. 53-54, 55) (see the British Library printed and on-line catalogue for a fuller description).Inscription with the date 18

• Puzzle initial., Medical miscellany, including charms; three copies of the 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' (ff. 89v-91v; 217-219; 220-225)

in red. Medical miscellany, including charms; three copies of the 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' (ff. 89v-91v; 217-219; 220-225) Texts in Latin and English added (ff. 2-4v, 250).Former shelfmark (?) 'IX.B' (f. 1).William Whitfeld: inscription 'Caroli Bernard Chir. Lond. ex dono Reverande Wil:

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uasi) with penwork decoration., A collection of theological treatises, including 'Stella clericorum', attributed here to Laurentius Johannes de Dacia (ff. 3-41)

theological treatises, including 'Stella clericorum', attributed here to Laurentius Johannes de Dacia (ff. 3-41) An erased inscription (f. 2v).Inscribed with English names (pen trials?) apparently by the same hand, 16th century: 'Robert Chee' (f. 20v), 'Wyncent' (f. 21), 'Thomas Johnson'

• Decorated initial 'E'(dward)., Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton, and the Proposiciones digestorum (imperfect)) (index Liber de Legibus Angliae; De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae)

is the earliest summary of English law in the French language. It is based on Henry de Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red penwork decoration (f. 1). Blue initials with

• Decorated initial 'H'(eri) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the sermon of Fulgentius for the feast of Stephen, at the beginning fo the Sanctorale., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Detail of an illuminated initial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Text page., Medical miscellany, including charms; three copies of the 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' (ff. 89v-91v; 217-219; 220-225)

in red. Medical miscellany, including charms; three copies of the 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' (ff. 89v-91v; 217-219; 220-225) Texts in Latin and English added (ff. 2-4v, 250).Former shelfmark (?) 'IX.B' (f. 1).William Whitfeld: inscription 'Caroli Bernard Chir. Lond. ex dono Reverande Wil:

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ixi)., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Illuminated intial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Decorated initials., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Ink drawing of head of a knight in profile., Chronicle of England in French verse to 1307 (ff. 1-129)

collection became part of the Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 11v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Profile of a knight Pierre de Langtoft England, N. E.

• Puzzle initial 'D'(omino) with a partial border, at the beginning of the Secretum Secretorum., Secretum Secretorum, Historia destructionis Troiae, and other texts

(b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial Pseudo-Aristotle; Guido delle Colonne England

• Pen-flourished initial 'Q'(uant)., Li Livres dou Tresor (index Tresors)

of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Pen-flourished initial 'Q'(uant). Brunetto Latini, translated into French France

• Allegorical miniature of a bush of the Tudor rose incorporating a Latin poem celebrating the House of Tudor, with a scroll reading 'Salve, radix varios producens germine ramos, / Quos inter ramus supereminet altior unus', with daisies for Henry VIII's sister Margaret of Scotland, and marigolds for his other sister, Mary, and a pomegranate bush for his wife, Katherine of Aragon, enclosed within a walled garden with tours surmounted by banners of the royal arms of England, George, and Castile, and a gateway with a lion, flanked by a red dragon and a white greyhound, and inscribed with words 'salve felix Anglia'., Motets

Scotland, and marigolds for his sister, Mary of France (f. 2).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Tudor rose Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others Antwerp Netherlands, S. (Antwerp?)