• The left-hand page has a drawing in the form of a hand holding a placard bearing the catchword; the right-hand page has a foliate initial 'P'(rima) at the beginning of Horace's Epistles., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• Marginal drawing of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano)at the beginning of Horace's Ars poetica., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• Marginal marks similar to notaries' marks on a former flyleaf., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• Illuminated white vine initial 'V'(enio) in Cicero's In verrem., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

In verrem. The Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v). 1 large and 6 small white vine initials, in colours and gold, marking the

• Detail of illuminated initial., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v). 1 large and 6 small white vine initials, in colours and gold, marking the beginning of each

• Detail of heraldry., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v). 1 large and 6 small white vine initials, in colours and gold, marking the beginning of each

• Detail of illuminated initial., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v). 1 large and 6 small white vine initials, in colours and gold, marking the beginning of each

• Detail of decorated initial., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• null, Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for

• Detail of illuminated initial., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v). 1 large and 6 small white vine initials, in colours and gold, marking the beginning of each

• Detail of illuminated initial., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

Detail of illuminated initial. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 31,

• Detail of lower border., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

Detail of lower border. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 31,

• null, Expositio vocabulorum bibliae; De esu carnium

lot 1567; bought by Chapman for 12s. 6d.? King & Chapman, booksellers; their catalogue 15 November 1790, lot 2746. ? John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer: inscribed in pencil ‘A Dictionary of the Bible [Wrote] About Anno,

• Historiated initial with a king and two monks, at the beginning of the Registrum Brevium., Law treatise called Britton, and other law treatises, statutes, etc.

(ff. 3, 4).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Historiated initial John le Breton England

• Miniature of Saturn devouring his children, Pharoah's men drowning in the Red Sea, the plague of heat during Cecrop's reign in Athens, and Procne serving the head of his son to Theseus, possibly retouched, with calligraphic initial 'T(he), and illuminated initialls 'O'(f) and 'T'(his)., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Saturn Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• Miniature of Jerome, white vine initial 'M'(ihi), and partial white vine border including putti holding a wreath, at the beginning of Rufinus Tyrannius's Expositio sancti Ieronimi in simbolum apostolorum ad papam laurentium., Expositio symboli apostolorum (Expositio sancti Ieronimi in simbolum apostolorum ad papam laurentium)

Miniature of Jerome, white vine initial 'M'(ihi), and partial white vine border including putti holding a wreath, at the beginning of Rufinus Tyrannius's Expositio sancti Ieronimi in simbolum apostolorum ad papam laurentium. Four dots before line four indicated where

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of the Capitula statutorum predictorum., Law treatise called Britton, and other law treatises, statutes, etc.

(ff. 3, 4).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Puzzle initial John le Breton England

• null, Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun

(f. [1a]); see also note by William Gutherie that it was owned by ' the Kors of Kirtony' (f. 2).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: inscribed 'of Lord Somers' Collection Sum. E. Umfreville', dated

• Inscription after the end of the main text in which the scribe, Brother Thomas Grene, has written his name in red. Four lines lower down, a later hand has written 'Grenewich', which suggests that the manuscript may have belonged to the Franciscan convent at Greenwich., Collection of Franciscan texts, including the life of Francis

minister Thomas to Roger at Wynde and Isabella, and is dated 1467 (ff. 1v-2); the second is from Thomas to John Baly and Katherine, and dated 145-. (ff. 76v-77).The Franciscan convent at Southampton: inscription 'Ad usum fratrum minore In Suythamptona'