• null, Old Testament (volume 1), Genesis to Ruth, with prologues

penwork decoration, or in blue with red and sometimes blue penwork decoration, many with faces. Highlighting of letters in red. Old Testament (volume 1), Genesis to Ruth, with prologues Written by George Rorer in Regensburg in 1465: with his colophon

• Detail of a miniature of a master and scholars., L'image du Monde

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. Master and scholars Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of a master and scholars., L'image du Monde

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. Master and scholars Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of God, with the instruments of Creation., L'image du Monde

England, Scotland, 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. Creation Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Miniature of diagrams showing the shape of the earth., L'image du Monde

England, Scotland, 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. Diagrams Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Circular diagrams and text., L'image du Monde

England, Scotland, 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. Diagrams Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Miniature of diagrams to show the shadow of the earth., L'image du Monde

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. Shadows of the earth Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Miniature of the phases of the moon., L'image du Monde

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. Phases of the moon Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Miniature of the Universe as a diagram in various concentric circles, with Christ at the top, Hell in the centre, and symbols of the Four Evangelists in the corners., L'image du Monde

England, Scotland, 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. Universe Gautier (index Gossouin) de Metz Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• 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

• Decorated initials., Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms)

in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing. Highlighting of letters in yellow. Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms) Written in 1465 by Marchus: colophon 'Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat/ Marchus vocatur

• Illuminated initial 'A' with a duck and bird, and puzzle initial 'I' at the beginning of Psalms., Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms)

in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing. Highlighting of letters in yellow. Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms) Written in 1465 by Marchus: colophon 'Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat/ Marchus vocatur

• Historiated initial with God in Majesty, and roundels of the days of Creation in the margins., Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms)

in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing. Highlighting of letters in yellow. Catalan version of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalms) Written in 1465 by Marchus: colophon 'Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat/ Marchus vocatur

• Flourished initial., Psalter, a metrical version (the Surtees Psalter version)

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Full border in

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of a metrical version of the Psalms in Middle English., The Psalms in English verse (the Surtees Society version), with parallel Latin, and Latin prayers

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Large puzzle initials

• Decorated initial 'R'(ev[er]ent) with foliate feathering including acanthus leaves at the beginning of Lydgate's Secrees of Old Philisoffres., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

including acanthus leaves at the beginning of Lydgate's Secrees of Old Philisoffres. One of 12 suriving complete copies of the text.Inserted paper leaves with title pages and text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of

• Text page with coloured initials and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initial and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],