• Table and decorated initial., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with foliate decoration, some with animal or human heads and partial

• Table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with foliate decoration, some with animal or human heads and partial bar borders.

• Detail of table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with foliate decoration, some with animal or human heads and partial bar

• Table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with foliate decoration, some with animal or human heads and partial bar borders.

• Decorated initial 'A' at the beginning of Augustine's Sermones., Various texts including Augustine's Sermones (index Sermons)(ff. 1-107); 'Vitis mystica' (ff. 108-152v); 'De septem columpnis' (ff. 153-159), and Griselda (index Decameron)(ff. 223-228v)

Decorated initial 'A' at the beginning of Augustine's Sermones. The whole manuscript, although written in different hands, is contemporary with its first part which is dated 1407 (see Provenance). Catchwords written horizontally, not only at the end of quires.Numerous

• Detail of a coloured drawing with knights jousting, including Tristan, designated by an inscribed 'Ti'., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

Tristram) (imperfect) Law papers in French relating to the Cassin family and others have been used for the flyleaves (ff. 1, 62) and for pasting inside the boards, one of them is dated 1639. Nicolas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d.

• Inscriptions., Alchemical treatises

Inscriptions. 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: inscribed '90. Bern.' (f. 2).Sir

• Marginal drawings., Alchemical treatises

drawings. 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: inscribed '90. Bern.' (f. 2).Sir

• Zodiac man and coloured initials., Speculum Phlebotomae (ff. 1-2); Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-100); Fistula in Ano (ff. 63-121v)

coloured initials. f. 1 is a paper leaf. Large initials in blue. Parpahs in blue or red. Line-filllers in red. Drawings in brown and red of zodiac man, and surgical instruments and procedures (ff. 62v, 72v, 81v). Speculum Phlebotomae (ff.

• Decorated initial 'T'(obias)., Books of Tobias, Judith, Ruth, and Proverbs with the glossa ordinaria

f. [126] are former parchment pastedowns.f. 1 is a blank parchment leaf with ownership inscriptions by Foucault and Wanley. 3 large initials in colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 2, 33v, 69). Blank space left for initial (f.

• Decorated initial 'I'(n)., Books of Tobias, Judith, Ruth, and Proverbs with the glossa ordinaria

f. [126] are former parchment pastedowns.f. 1 is a blank parchment leaf with ownership inscriptions by Foucault and Wanley. 3 large initials in colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 2, 33v, 69). Blank space left for initial (f.

• Illuminated border and initial 'F'(or)., Medical miscellany, including a lunary (ff. 6v-7); anonymous text on humours, elements, and urines, a calendar (ff. 11-21v); Guy of Chauliac's Anatomy; a treatise on complexions

1 is a paper flyleaf.Added texts ff. 23v,180v-184v. Full-page outline drawing in brown of a Zodiac man with labelling in blue and gold (f. 2). 2 full border in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff. 25, 43), and

• Drawing of a Zodiac man., Medical miscellany, including a lunary (ff. 6v-7); anonymous text on humours, elements, and urines, a calendar (ff. 11-21v); Guy of Chauliac's Anatomy; a treatise on complexions

1 is a paper flyleaf.Added texts ff. 23v,180v-184v. Full-page outline drawing in brown of a Zodiac man with labelling in blue and gold (f. 2). 2 full border in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff. 25, 43), and

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum, and the inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

s(an)c(t)e marie in Eb(ir)bach' (ff. 1, 145v), and mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as '7 [sign after 'Z'] 1' or 'a29' (see Palmer 1998, pp. 258, 262).Inscribed 'Z 140' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a

• Puzzle initial 'V'(estra) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium., De disciplina scholarium, with glosses

the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, and decorated extension (f. 1). Small initials in plain red or blue. 1 marginal drawing of a head, 15th

• Initial 'T' of the dedication of a church., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index Antiphonal, antiphonary)

New York, ex-Stern Collection; Washington National Gallery of Art, inv. B 14842.Musical notation. 1 historiated initial 'T' in colours and gold, of the Dedication of a Church. 1 decorated initial 'O' in colours (f. 10v). On the reverse, musical notation

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before a seated Virgin and Child with the infant John within an ornate border of scroll-work with putti, maidens, garlands, the lion of Mark and the Pasquaglio family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a member of the Pasquaglio family of Venice

Add. 20916, ff. 10-15 and 17. To see this leaf in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 20916, ff. 10-17. 1 full-page miniature in colours and gold, of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before a seated Virgin and Child

• Portrait medallion of Niccolo III d'Este (b. 1383, d. 1441)., Annali di Ferrara, books 1-3

Portrait medallion of Niccolo III d'Este (b. 1383, d. 1441). A second volume is Harley 3311.The 17th-century portrait medallions are painted on paper slips glued onto the manuscript leaves. Numerous medallions in colours with imaginary portraits of members of

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnis), at the beginning of Hippocrates' Prognostica., Medical miscellany (ends imperfectly), including Hippocrates' Prognostica

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XII.6.20’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of

• Decorated initial 'W', at the beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales., Canterbury Tales (begins and ends imperfectly)

parchment leaves inserted after ff. 13, 14, 62 (x2), 80, 119, 124, 137. 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground, with foliate extensions into the margins (f. 4). Initials in gold on red and blue grounds,