• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of one man showing a treasure to another., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a rabbit-eared man addressing a man with a hooded man., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man and a rabbit-eared man seated., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 1 with, on one side a pen & brown ink wash faintly tinted in red, and on the verso, recipes in English. It

• Folded physician's almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Folded physician's almanac. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man (f. [5v]). Tables partly written in red.

• Bloodletting man and lunar-zodiac table in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Bloodletting man and lunar-zodiac table in a physician's folding almanac. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man

• Tables, bloodletting man and table of lunar-zodiacal correspondences., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Tables, bloodletting man and table of lunar-zodiacal correspondences. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man (f. [5v]).

• Calendar for January and February in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Calendar for January and February in a physician's folding almanac. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man

• Decorated foliate initial 'M', and full foliate border, at the beginning of Thomas Hoccleve's De Regimine Principis., De Regimine Principis

Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or blue. De Regimine Principis Inscriptions in English, 15th-century (ff. 1v, 90v, 91).Thomas More's 'Rueful Lamentation' on the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1503 (ff. 88v-89).Sir Hans Sloane

• null, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

and blue. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum Entries of the birth of two sons, in English, dated 1488 and 1492 (f. 1v).Inscription in English in the margin of the calendar (f. 2v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet,

• null, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

and blue. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum Entries of the birth of two sons, in English, dated 1488 and 1492 (f. 1v).Inscription in English in the margin of the calendar (f. 2v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet,

• Miniature of George and the dragon, decorated initial 'G'(eorgi), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of his suffrage., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

and blue. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum Entries of the birth of two sons, in English, dated 1488 and 1492 (f. 1v).Inscription in English in the margin of the calendar (f. 2v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet,

• Miniature of the Arrest of Christ, decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

and blue. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum Entries of the birth of two sons, in English, dated 1488 and 1492 (f. 1v).Inscription in English in the margin of the calendar (f. 2v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet,

• Historiated initial 'J'(ohn) with the earl of Warenne on horseback; the margin with two heraldic shields, 'The Roll of Karlaverok': translated from part of Cotton Caligula A. xviii; followed (ff. 52-54) by a short account of Caerlaverock Castle

Absalom, 1817: with his bookplate and scribal colophon: 'From a M.S. in the British Museum. A free translation from the old French' (f. 51); in the border of the same page is a scroll inscribed 'Philip Absalom m.dccc.xvii'.Inscribed 'Add: /

• Historiated initial 'E'(dward) with King Edward I enthroned, crowned and holding a sceprttre and cross-topped orb, at eh summit of a family tree tracing his ancestors back to William I the Conqueror, 'The Roll of Karlaverok': translated from part of Cotton Caligula A. xviii; followed (ff. 52-54) by a short account of Caerlaverock Castle

Absalom, 1817: with his bookplate and scribal colophon: 'From a M.S. in the British Museum. A free translation from the old French' (f. 51); in the border of the same page is a scroll inscribed 'Philip Absalom m.dccc.xvii'.Inscribed 'Add: /

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi (at left of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Miniature of the Presentation in the Temple (at centre of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Miniature of Christ appearing to two disciples on the road to Emmaus (at right of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Diagram., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

not common in English Bibles before c.1240.Marginalia indicate that the text of this Bible has been compared to that of another.The large decorative extensions in the lower margins are of a type which are found in English manuscripts from about

• Detail of historiated initial 'F'(uit) of the Anoiting of David., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

not common in English Bibles before c.1240.Marginalia indicate that the text of this Bible has been compared to that of another.The large decorative extensions in the lower margins are of a type which are found in English manuscripts from about