• Historiated initial 'F'(ecit) of a mermaid and an archer shooting at an owl, at the beginning of Esdras 2., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Mermaid William de Hales England, S. England, S. (Salisbury)

• Historiated initial 'F'(uit) of Elkanah and Hannah praying before an altar, at the beginning of Kings 1 (Samuel 1)., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Elkanah and Hannah William de Hales England, S. England, S. (Salisbury)

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of a three-faced man, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Three-faced man William de Hales England, S. England, S. (Salisbury)

• Historiated initial 'V'(ocavit) of Moses speaking to God, at the beginning of Leviticus., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Moses William de Hales England, S. England, S. (Salisbury)

• Marginal drawing of Samson fighting with a lion next to Judges 14:1-5., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Samson and a lion William de Hales England, S. England, S. (Salisbury)

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

boren was'. English Conlee 1991, pp. 10-17. f. 197v Doomsday ( IMEV 39 67 ) 'Uuen i þenke on domesdai wel sore mai me drede'. 'Amen'. English Cf. Brown 1932, pp. 42-54. ff. 198r-200r ( IMEV 3517 ) English Items

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

'How many partyse of speche ben ther? viii'. Late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century grammatical treatise. Ff. 57v-58r blank. English Thomson 1984, p. 55. Scribe of the English grammar beginning on f. 53r wrote in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: dotted y ; sigma

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Copying of Vernacular Literature in England ’ , Yearbook of English Studies , 33, 1-17, pp. 16-17. De Vries, F. C., ed, 1966. Floris and Blauncheflur : A Middle English Romance. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary , Groningen: Drukkerij