• Coloured initials., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Coloured initials., Commonitorium directivum simplicium volentium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the

• Decorative headpiece and intials at the beginning of the first Ode., Psalter with odes, prayers, service of holy communion, and a short excerpt from Daniel (ff. 213v-214)

d. 1720), 2nd Earl of Stamford, conspirator and politician: inscribed, 'Stamford 1693' (f. 1*).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; sold to Edward Harley in the sale of the Earl of Stamford's books, 16 January 1720-21, lot 76.The Harley

• null, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Miniature of the Presentation in the Temple., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of Birmingham, March 2004. Related Manuscripts and other documents Textual Lewis and McIntosh state that the manuscript is related to London, British Library, MS Harley 1205 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a.1 and the Lichfield subgroup throughout (1982,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Harley 1205 s. xv ex English Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state that the 'language is from Lichfield or nearby' (1986, p. 239). A late fourteenth-century copy

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Harley 201 ?s. vix English Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 363 258, LP 7500 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). Scribe 2 - Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Grid Reference: 384

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography , Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America, 373n., pp. 539-40. De Ricci, S., and Wilson, W. J. 1935. Census of Medieval

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

96, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner & Co. Horstmann, C., ed, 1881. Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge , Heilbronn: Henninger. Horstmann, C., ed, 1892. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan