Numerous space fillers in colours and gold. Fragments from Exodus (1:1-8:5) K. B. No. 1: inscribed (f. 1).Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 July 1882:
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
of Egidius Corboliensis's Liber de urinis. 1 large initial in blue, with reserved design, with pen-flourishing in red (f. 1).1 small initial in red with pen-flourishing in blue, including a human face (f. 1). Small initials and paraph marks
Puzzle initial 'A'(lphica), at the beginning of the Catalogus medicam. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red (f. 1). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue. Catalogus
Flourished initials, in the Catalogus medicam. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red (f. 1). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue. Catalogus medicam (ff. 1-78), Receipes
table of contents on p. 1 that begins, 'Here begynne the titles of the chapitles folewynge in the book of reformynge of manes soule'. See Bestul 2000; Underhill 1923. Codex Parchment Manuscript not examined. 1 flyleaf, 1-9 8 , 10
Scribal Scribe 1 is the same as Scribe 1 of Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 668 (Lewis and McIntosh, 1982, pp. 54-5, 121-2) and Doyle notes that this scribe was also Scribe 1 of
4), i paper flyleaf with half an older flyleaf stuck over; 1 8 lacks 1-2, 8, 2 6 lacks 1, 3 12 lacks 1-2, 9-12, 4 ?6 lacks 1, 3-5, 5 12 lacks 3 and 9, 6 12 lacks 1-2,
2, 4); 9-10 8 ; 11-12 6 ; 13 8 ; 14 8 (wants 1); 15-16 8 ; 1 flyleaf: i + 116 ff + 1 (out of 125; 2, 6, 15, 16, 57, 53, 59, 61 and 102 are
p. 261, n. 1. Codex Parchment 160 110 mm 13 12 (+ 1 after 12). A bifolium. Single columns ruled in pencil for 39-43. One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata script. This hand annotates Part 1. Red or blue
Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 28,617 Source Library British Library, London Description Prologue, II, 513-end, f. 1; "Legenda Cleopatrye," II, 1-31, f. 2; Tisbe, II. 103-end, f. 3; "Legenda Didonis Cartagie Regine," 11. 1-180, 381-end, with
Number 24,192 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. AN epistle "of religious exortacioun" to a nun of how she should "growe in religious vertuously as a goostly tree," f. 1. 2 2. "A Lettre sent to a religious
Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 32,248 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. MIRACLES of the Virgin, in Latin rhyming verse, beginning "Virgo fuit quedam, metrice quam plenius edam." At the end,
Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A Manuscript Number 2457 Source Library British Library, London Description 11. Verses on blood-letting, the title of which is "How thow schalt knowe veynes for blod letynge; and how in
Description 11. The Chastising of God's children. In 27 chapters. Imperfect, beg. in chap. iv. with the words "and in saulo. Som falles pen in perplexities." The text differs considerably from that printed and attributed to Caxton. f. 1.
Scribe 1 Short couplets. Ends imperfect with only 24 lines (barely legible) remaining. Single letters remaining on the stub f.256ra suggest at least 29 lines lost. Apparently an attempt was made to erase the text. Edition: E. Kölbing, 'Kleine Publicationen
Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 42 lines. Begins imperfect. Edition: H. Varnhagen, 'Zu Mittelenglischen Gedichten', Anglia, 3 (1880): 275-292. ('VII: Noch Einmal zu den Sprüchen des Heiligen Bernhard': 291-292). Another edition: D. Laing, A Penni Worth of Witte, Abbotsford
Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 74 lines not including speaker labels. First line defective. Ends imperfect through the loss of five succeeding leaves. One other manuscript: Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). S. W. Midlands. c.1275. Digby 86 also
Scribe 1 16-line stanzas, rhyming aaabcccbdddbeeeb. Markedly alliterative. 112 lines. Unique copy. Edition: C. Carleton-Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1924). Second edition revised by G. V. Smithers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1952). Other editions: C. Bullock, 'The Enemies
Scribe 1 A paraphrase of Psalm 51 (Vulgate Psalm 50). Short couplets. 96 lines including a lacuna on f.280va, but excluding Latin headings. The oldest version of this text. For further discussion of later and related redactions see: J. J.
And bygȳneth his tale 76/1</ctp>.<resp>LC</resp> Whilom þer was dwellyng at Oxenford A riche gnof þat gestes heeld to boorde And of his craft he was a Carpenter Wiþ him þer was dwellyng a pore scoler Had lerned art but
is evident on folio 39r. The capital has been decorated using a shyning blue.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note><note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>There is a small pricking next L 1 of the prologue, which appears under the illumination and is visible from the verso of 39v.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> In al the
Incipit fabula Armigeri<note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>The ink in this folio is brown and becomes darker brown afterwards. NB an extra watermarked leafs was used here.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> At Sarray , in the lond of Tartarye There dwelled a kyng , that werred Russye Thorugh