• Miniature of a bloodletting man., Physician's folding almanac, including Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. B-E, i.e. 9-6), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1398 to 1462 (ff. G-I, i.e. 4-2), and Grosseteste's 'De prognosticatione aeri', abridged (f. K, i.e. 1)

saints in the calendar correspond to those in calendars for the use of Sarum produced in Southern England.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man in colours (f. A,

• Miniature of Zodiac man., Physician's folding almanac, including Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. B-E, i.e. 9-6), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1398 to 1462 (ff. G-I, i.e. 4-2), and Grosseteste's 'De prognosticatione aeri', abridged (f. K, i.e. 1)

saints in the calendar correspond to those in calendars for the use of Sarum produced in Southern England.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man in colours (f. A,

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) with Christ nailed to the Cross, and three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with Jerome as a cardinal and his lion, and full foliate border, at the beginning of Jerome's Psalter., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with Jerome as a cardinal and his lion, at the beginning of Jerome's Psalter., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) with Christ nailed to the Cross, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial 'O' (Domine) with Christ in a wine-press, and a full foliate border, at the beginning of a prayer to Christ., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial of Christ carrying the Cross., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Historiated initial of the General Resurrection of the dead., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

calendar, 1480: '[D]ie sabbati A^o^ Domini 1480 med. noct. natus fuit I. Eage(?) … Eage(?)' (f. 6v). Added recipes in English, 15th century or 16th century, the second 'A watyr for the pestelens' (f. 111).Thomas Parker of Willingdon, Sussex, 16th

• Miniature of Dante and Beatrice hovering before the Haven of Mercury, in which souls are enclosed, while below, four young men are standing before a Pope, who holds up open volumes containing the Old and New Testaments, in illustration of Paradiso V., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

while below, four young men are standing before a Pope, who holds up open volumes containing the Old and New Testaments, in illustration of Paradiso V. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the

• Miniature of Raymond de Peñafort presenting the Decretales to Gregory IX, with an illuminated initial 'G'(regorius), at the beginning of Gregory IX letter to the university of Bologna., Decretales, with the glossa ordinaria

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Gregory IX Gregory IV, glossed by Bernard of Parma France, S.

• Table of eclipses of the sun., Astronomical Calendar

be identified with John Turke (d. c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Table of eclipses John Somer England

• Illuminated initial 'A'(d honorem) at the beginning of John Somer's preface., Astronomical Calendar

to be identified with John Turke (d. c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial John Somer England

• Coloured drawings, of Lot's wife, the Ark, and Egyptian soldiers being drowned in the Red Sea., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of a dragon, with seven heads in its tail. In Joachim's thought, the seven heads correspond to Herod, Nero, Constantinus, Mohometh, Melsemothus, Saladin, the Antichrist, with Gog, the last Antichrist., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of Adam and of sacrifices., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawings, including of king Saul, the priest Eli, who falls dead after being told that his two sons had been killed and the ark of God taken by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:17-18); and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Full-page miniature of Michael III of Wallachia on horseback. The text in the border reads: 'The figure is without soul, but it has the eyesight of a living person, and if anybody wants to know the effigy of this one, it is of the akoutsos (or famous) Master (Afthentis) Michalis of whom all Turks, both young and old, were scared'., Life of Michael III, Voivod of Wallachia (Mihai Viteazul)

of this one, it is of the akoutsos (or famous) Master (Afthentis) Michalis of whom all Turks, both young and old, were scared'. Spaces left for other miniatures.f. 1 is a paper fragment with notes by Covel pasted to f.

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), and, in the lower margin, the initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial and arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Detail of the lower margin, with initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)