• Detail of a miniature of Priam sending Paris to Greece., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

of Priam sending Paris to Greece. Contains the Historia destructionis Troiae of Guido delle Colonne (c. 1287), in a French translation.The rubric of the prologue states that the translation was commissioned by a 'maire' of Beauvais for Charles V of

• Detail of a miniature of Olympias giving birth to Alexander the Great, with two eagles on the roof of the palace (foretelling Alexander's two empires in Europe and Asia). The temple of Diana at Ephesus burns in the background as a portent of Alexander's revenge on the Persians for their invasion of Greece under Xerxes in 480 BC., Historia Alexandri Magni

Diana at Ephesus burns in the background as a portent of Alexander's revenge on the Persians for their invasion of Greece under Xerxes in 480 BC. For the text, see also Royal 15 D IV and 17 F I. 2

• Miniature of Olympias giving birth to Alexander the Great, with two eagles on the roof of the palace (foretelling Alexander's two empires in Europe and Asia). The temple of Diana at Ephesus burns in the background as a portent of Alexander's revenge on the Persians for their invasion of Greece under Xerxes in 480 BC., Historia Alexandri Magni

Diana at Ephesus burns in the background as a portent of Alexander's revenge on the Persians for their invasion of Greece under Xerxes in 480 BC. For the text, see also Royal 15 D IV and 17 F I. 2

• Detail of a miniature of the people of ancient times living together in a sylvan commune., Roman de la Rose (index Romance of the Rose)

of the people of ancient times living together in a sylvan commune. The text of this manuscript was copied from a printed edition published at Lyon, probably around 1487 (see Kren and McKendrick 2003 no. 120). The illuminators did not

• Miniature of a standing John Chrysostom holding a book., Leitourgikon, including ordination services and prayers

71, 38v).Bought from Sotheby's on 16 February 1875 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). John Chrysostom Euthymius Greece, S. Greece, S. (Peloponnese)

• XVI and XVII Centuries MS Sloane 904 British Library, London 242 images.

of London, by William Boghurst, apothecary." A poem, composed in the year 1666; the original copy. ff.53-66. Beginning, "London, the ancient seat of British kinges." 8 8. "De casu Londini versus Septem." f.66. Incip "Nunc jacet in flammis Londinum, quod

• MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 5467 British Library, London 227 images.

fol.16. - Op. I sawe in the secrees of Aristotille (see the Latin in Ms. Cott. Jul. D.viii). 3 3. Ancient treatise on Cookery, similar to the "Forme of Cury", published by Dr Pegge. Fol. 23. Inc. La maner pur