• Initial 'S' with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the Alchemical treatises., Alchemical treatises

the beginning of the Alchemical treatises. 1 large initial in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Small initials in plain red. Diagrams. Alchemical treatises Inscription, 15th century, and the number 'XV.B' (f. 1).Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698), apothecary and physician:

• Decorated initial 'C'(oment) with pen-flourishing and line-fillers at the beginning of the statutes., Nova statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III (ff. 30-115) to 17 Richard II (ff. 116-171v)

29v and 115v are blank. Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including foliate motifs (ff. 1, 20, 30, 30v, 32v, etc.). Line-fillers in red and blue. Paraphs in red and/or blue. Some catchwords decorated with

• Illuminated initial., Alchemical tracts, including the Secretum secretorum, imperfect

initial. 1 large initial in colours and gold with foliage decoration, damaged (f. 100v). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration, and in red with blue penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue.

• Historiated initial of two conjoined fish in gold, silver, and colours, and a portrait of Petrarch standing, with a decorated border with floral motifs in gold and colours, with pen-flourishing, and arms., Opuscula varia (index various works)

Petrarch standing (f. 29). Decorated border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, and 1 decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 63). 1 small decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 71). Initials in red or blue with

• Decorated initial 'F' in gold and colours, and a decorated border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours., Opuscula varia (index various works)

Petrarch standing (f. 29). Decorated border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, and 1 decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 63). 1 small decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 71). Initials in red or blue with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 150), Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped, LP 21. Ff. 81r-84r - Scribal Dialect: South Nottinghamshire 'but written by a scribe of Lichfield' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 150), Linguistic Atlas

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of England , edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 13 1, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1. Harris, K. 1983. ‘ The Origins and Make-Up of Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6 ’

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

extreme N Hunts' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). F. 164 'Language apparently of N Ely, mixed with some other component(s). Ely' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). A fifteenth-century collection of Wycliffite material.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

generosus & morabatur in Schiptoun qui predictus willielmus fecit librum qui vocatur Perys ploughman' (see facsimile in Kane 1965, plate 1, facing p. 32). The last folio of this manuscript carries a fragment of the French prose Lancelot but is