Illuminated initial 'A'(d honorem) at the beginning of John Somer's preface. Part 2 contains a preface by John Somer (ff. 1-2v), and a calendar (ff. 3v-9). The Psalter section (Part 1) includes a litany (ff. 138-143) and the Office of
of John the Baptist, and full foliate borders with birds, a dragon and a grotesque figure, for his suffrage. 30 small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 6, 14v, 17v, 18, 26v, 33v, 38v, 40v, 56v, 58v, 66v, 69,
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
96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Winds John Arderne England
96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plant John Arderne England
by some branches of the Weeks family (Manly and Rickert. 1940. p. 57). F. 259v 'Per me Iohannem Wekes' ( John Wekes ) written in a late sixteenth-century hand. The same hand also wrote an English couplet and a prologue