• null, Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

ccc xxxii. / et fu translate en francois p[ar] iehan de vi/gnay. Lan mil ccc. xxxiii/ (f. 165v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le bon roy Alexandre' included in the list of books

• Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) with the Vigil of the Dead at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Jerome's Psalter (ff. 180-204), the fifteen O's of St Bridget introduced by a long rubric in English (ff. 204-221). Some long rubrics in English. Catchwords.Quire signatures. 2 historiated initial in gold and colours with acanthus leaves, with full border with

• Coloured print with Christ as Man of Sorrows being adored by a Carthsian, pasted to a page painted in red covered with streaming blood. A Carthusian kneels before a bloody Christ, who stands beside his cross. They converse by means of scrolls with texts in latin. The Carthusian petitions Christ: ‘O Lord I beseech, send me salvation’ (Domine obsecro dirige ad me salutem). He replies: ‘Son, shun (temptation, understood), subdue (it), say nothing, keep quiet (Fili fuge, vince, tace, quiesce). The formulation is found in Abelard’s Epistle VII on the foundation of a women’s convent, and the context is how to avoid the temptation to sin. Below is a caption in English: ‘The greatest comfort in al temptacyon Is the remembraunce of Crystes passyon.’, Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

of a women’s convent, and the context is how to avoid the temptation to sin. Below is a caption in English: ‘The greatest comfort in al temptacyon Is the remembraunce of Crystes passyon.’ The most remarkable example of a book

• Illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text., Letter to Henry VII

(f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail from the full border of a bird, the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, and a grotesque., Letter to Henry VII

oratio' (f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Border Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Coloured print with Christ as the Man of Sorrows surrounded by symbols of the Passion pasted to a page painted in red covered with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle

• Coloured print with the symbols of the Passion pasted to a page painted in red covered with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle

• Pages painted black with red drops of blood, representing the wounds of Christ, worn, perhaps as the result of kissing., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle

• Print with the Virgin nursing the Child., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third

• Pages painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third

• Page painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third

• Miniature of Christ the Redeemer, at the beginning of an added prayer in English., Added miniature for an inscribed prayer in English

the beginning of an added prayer in English. Traces of pilgrim badges (f. 27v). 1 full-page miniature including heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 3v). Added miniature for an inscribed prayer in English A member of the Gower family,

• Page painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third

• Page painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(d) of David in prayer, from the beginning of a Gradual., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Page of music on the verso of the folio., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Miniature of David in penitence, and decorated initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Prayer Book

branches, in gold and purple. All text pages framed in gold. Rubrics in gold. Prayer Book Apparently designed for an English owner: inscribed by Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey: see Backhouse 1994.Inscriptions in French, 16th-century: 'en priant a saintte George…',

• Historiated initial 'A'(d) of David in prayer, from the beginning of a Gradual., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Detail of the last 4 staves of music and an inscription., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Detail of a miniature of the marriage of Alfour, king of Sicily, and princess Sybil of Spain., Edward's IV's Descent from Rollo (ff. 1-7); Romance of the Three Kings' Sons (ff. 8-123)

manuscript is the only fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of a romance in English to survive, according to Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 199.'This manuscript contains the sole surviving translation in Middle English of the Romance of the Three Kings' Sons, a text that