Coloured initial. 1 decorated headpiece (f. 2). Large initials in plain red. Psalter Inscription in Russian (f. 1).Inscribed 'Ex dono Will(hel)mi Skinner Armig(?)' (f. 1). Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of
3 large and 1 smaller decorated foliate initials, the first accompanied by a full, the others by a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 100v, 166v, 202). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in
Illuminated initial 'H'(agelylaus) in Cornelius Nepos's Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium. 1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red
1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium Unidentified original(?)
1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms (f. 1). Small initials alternately gold with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium Unidentified original(?)
Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 36,523 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. Titus and Vespasian, or the Destruction of Jerusalem; in 5166 lines of octosyllabio verse, in rhymed couplets. This poem,
Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 37223 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. The chronicle proper, in five books. A table of chapters is prefixed to each, and after the first are
Colophon Explicit a good techyng." On the flyleaves are (a) Memoranda about wood carried partly at Talatun [Talaton, co.Devon?]. f. 1; (b) (b) A few medical recipes in Engl. and Latin. f.8.b. A vellum fragment (f.i.) formerly in the binging
Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 38129 Source Library British Library, London Description WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, "De gestis regum anglorum" (f. 1) and "Historia Novella" (f. 181): the third recension, with the dedicatory epistle at the end of the third book,
Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 37790 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. "This boke is off mendynge of lyfe or ellys off the rewlo of lyfynge," etc.: the De emendatione vitae