• Foliate initial 'B' (first row, left)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Foliate initial 'E' (first row, centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Foliate initial 'A' (first row, right)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Foliate initial 'T' (second row, left)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Foliate initial 'S' (second row, centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Miniatures and text., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

of Sir John Radcliffe of Atteleborough (b. 1452, d. 1496), Norfolk: inscribed, adjacent to the shield ‘Thys boke gyften to my lady beaumoun be har lovftng moder margaret ffytz wauter w^t^ all my hart’ (f. 107 [p. 213]). John Stow

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of the anointing and coronation of David, at the beginning of Psalm 26., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Text page with blue and red initials, and penwork line fillers., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Miniature of pigs being slaughtered, at the calendar for December., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Historiated initial 'J'(ohannes) of a lawyer holding a book, with a partial border, at the beginning of the preface (the introductory bull of John XXII), and a foliate initial 'J'(ohannes), at the beginning of the gloss; with birds and a hybrid grotesque in the margin., Constitutiones Clementinae; Extravagantes; Decretal on Franciscans; Lectura super Clementinis; Breviarium sive Repertorium

bull of John XXII), and a foliate initial 'J'(ohannes), at the beginning of the gloss; with birds and a hybrid grotesque in the margin. Contains the Constitutuions Clementinae, a collection of constitutions of Clement V promulgated by John II in

• Detail of grotesque from the foot of the folio., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of John standing on his symbol, the eagle, at the beginning of John., Gospels, with the Glossa ordinaria

Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of John standing on his symbol, the eagle, at the beginning of John. Part of a set. The other manuscripts are Royal 3 E I-V. Royal 3 E VII is related but not executed in the

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulta)., Commentary on Malachi and Homilies

and Homilies The Benedictine abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester: perhaps to be identified with a volume mentioned by John Leland, (see John Leland ~Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis~, ed. by A. Hall (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1709), p. 216, and ~Joannis Lelandi antiquarii

• Ownership inscription of William Bedeford, canon of Newnham Priory, with an anathema., Florigerus Liber (f. 2); Flores Bernardi (f. 14)

(and sub-prior, c. 1432) of the Augustinian priory of St Paul, Newnham, Bedfordshire: purchased from Robert Ware, executor of Master John Bryan, studying at Cambridge in 1415, as recorded in the note of ownership and anathema on f. 1v, 'Hinc

• Initials 'Q'(uorumdam) and 'D'(a) with pen flourishing at the beginning of the Florigerus Liber., Florigerus Liber (f. 2); Flores Bernardi (f. 14)

(and sub-prior, c. 1432) of the Augustinian priory of St Paul, Newnham, Bedfordshire: purchased from Robert Ware, executor of Master John Bryan, studying at Cambridge in 1415, as recorded in the note of ownership and anathema on f. 1v, 'Hinc

• Detail of a miniature of the capture of John de St John and others by the French., Chroniques de France ou de St Denis (from 1270 to1380)

Detail of a miniature of the capture of John de St John and others by the French. Includes the series of nine miniatures illustrating the visit of the Emperor Charles IV to the King of France, Charles V, which occur

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Book Collector and Cataloguer, 1682-1698', _British Library Journal_, 13 (1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. John of Arderne England

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial foliate borders,

• Puzzle initials 'I'(gitur) and 'B'(eata)., Lectionary from the Lives of the Saints, from 22 February to 10 August

Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Puzzle initials John of Salisbury John of Salisbury Mons Netherlands, S. (Mons in Hainault)

• Historiated initial 'O' of a standing Virgin suckling the Child and two kneeling nuns., Lectionary from the Lives of the Saints, from 22 February to 10 August

Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Virgin and Child John of Salisbury John of Salisbury Mons Netherlands, S. (Mons in Hainault)