• Miniature in four compartments, with portraits of English kings: Henry II and Richard I, in the upper register, and John and Henry III, in the lower register., Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III; Continuation of Chronica maiora

Henry II and Richard I, in the upper register, and John and Henry III, in the lower register. Includes two autograph copies of works of Matthew Paris: the only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering

• Ownership inscription of the Franciscan convent, Canterbury, with a shelfmark, reading 'B. Luchas Joh[ann]es glossat[us]. De com[mun]itate fr[atru]m mi[n]o[rum] Cantuar[ie]', and referring to another manuscript, perhaps Royal 4 C I containing Luke and John with the Glossa Ordinaria., Proverbs, Ecclesistes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, with the Glossa Ordinaria

14th century (f. 312), which refers to another manuscript', perhaps Royal 4 C I, containing Luke and John with the Glossa Ordinaria. John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f.

• Inscription recording that the book was purchased by Roger de Fulton, archdeacon of Lincoln, from Galfridus, in presence of Robert de Lee, John de Lirling, Richard de Luda, and Henry, vicar of North Elkington, Lincolnshire, brother of Galfridus, reading 'Iste liber sententia[rum] est liber mag[i]s[tr]i / Rog[er]I archid[iacon]i lincoln[ensis] quem emit / a Galfrido fr[atr]e henrici vicarii / de Northelkinton presentibus mag[ist]ro Rob[er]to / de Lee, mag[ist]ro Joh[an]e de Lirling, Ric[ardo] de / Luda cl[er]ico, Ric[ardo] clemosinario (?), d[i]c[t]o h. vicario / et dic[t]o suo, et aliis'; and another inscription stating that the book was given to the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Oswald, Bardney, Lincolnshire, by Roger de Fulton, reading 'p[re]dict[us] v[ero] archidiacon[us] p[re]dic[tu]m lib[rum] dedit d[e]o et s[anc]to Oswaldo / et abb[a]ti et conventui de Barden[ey].', Sententiarum libri IV

by a purchase of John Gigur: inscribed, 'Hunc librum emit Gigurde executoribus magistri More', 15th century (f. 1v).Included in the list of manuscripts from Lincolnshire houses entitled 'de historiis antiquitatum ac divinitate tractancium', perhaps composed by John Longland, bishop of

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Initial 'C' with a dog-headed hybrid., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a bird biting a dog., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'A'(nglia), with a hooded hybrid creature, at the beginning of a description of England., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• End of the annals from the birth of Christ to 1294, with an entry for the birth of King Edward II for 1284., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature with a human face, at the beginning of a chronicle of the Saxons to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with a hybrid creature, and 'B'(ritannia) with hybrid creatures biting, at the beginning of the prologue to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, with the signature of William Herbert in the upper margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixisse) depicting a king (Pyrrhus of Epirus?) in armour on horseback, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, with eighteenth- century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 500, bought by Munro for 7s. 6d. John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, 23 April 1792, lot 3400.David Swan, 1792:

• Marginal drawing of an 'Elephant and Castle'; the adjacent text describes King Pyrrhus's battle elephants, with decorated initials 'A'(nno) and 'I'(psi) in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 500, bought by Munro for 7s. 6d. John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, 23 April 1792, lot 3400.David Swan, 1792:

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(ufficientia) in the form of a dragon, terminating in a bearded human head, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, with eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 500, bought by Munro for 7s. 6d. John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, 23 April 1792, lot 3400.David Swan, 1792:

• Decorated initial 'N'(eminem), in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and 18th-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 500, bought by Munro for 7s. 6d. John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, 23 April 1792, lot 3400.David Swan, 1792:

• Historiated initial 'E'(xplicui), with a bishop and a tonsured monk offering him a book, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 500, bought by Munro for 7s. 6d. John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, 23 April 1792, lot 3400.David Swan, 1792:

• Historiated puzzle initial 'D'(ominus) of a figure blessing, in a list of Benedictine houses, with the names of Ely (Eliens), London (Londonicus), Norwich, Stratford, and Thetford visible, and annals from the birth of Christ to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Illuminated 'KL' letters in a calendar page for April, with roundels of the occupation of the month of a man scything, and the zodiac sign, Taurus the bull. A little below Taurus is an added 13th-century inscription in black ink, recording the death of John, father of 'E', precentor of Chichester cathedral., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father John on 24 April (f. 5v), and mother Avicia on 26 September (f. 8).? John Howard (? d. 1426) and his wife Alice Tendring: erased 15th-century inscription

• Text page in Jeremiah., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'T'(he) with an animal head, at the beginning of Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of