• Text page with coloured initials and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initial and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• null, Medical treatises

plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• null, Medical treatises

plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• Drawing of flasks., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• 3 jars., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• null, Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment

in red. Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment The Cistercian nunnery of St Mary and St Mauritius, Medingen, lower Saxony: inscription 'Liber sanctae Marie virginis sanctique mauritii in medinghe' (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Diagrams of some 'pictura urinarum', in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Drawing of a zodiacal man, in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Medallion of Taurus and the illuminated initial 'T'(aurus)., Fragment of an astrological treatise, including a text on the use of spheres (ff. 6v-7v)

unfoliated leaf and f. i are a late 16th-century paper codex in English. 3 medallions of Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 4v, 5v). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with sprays

• Medallion of Scorpio and the illuminated initial 'S'(corpio)., Fragment of an astrological treatise, including a text on the use of spheres (ff. 6v-7v)

unfoliated leaf and f. i are a late 16th-century paper codex in English. 3 medallions of Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 4v, 5v). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with sprays

• Decorated initial with a leaf pattern., Collection of alchemical secrets

or pen-flourishing. Large initials in brown with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Collection of alchemical secrets Later additions in English and Latin, and alchemical symbols (ff. 17v-20; 30-37; 50v-51v; 65-66, 72v-75v; 89v).John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers,

• Coloured drawings, of Lot's wife, the Ark, and Egyptian soldiers being drowned in the Red Sea., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of a dragon, with seven heads in its tail. In Joachim's thought, the seven heads correspond to Herod, Nero, Constantinus, Mohometh, Melsemothus, Saladin, the Antichrist, with Gog, the last Antichrist., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of Adam and of sacrifices., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawings, including of king Saul, the priest Eli, who falls dead after being told that his two sons had been killed and the ark of God taken by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:17-18); and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), and, in the lower margin, the initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial and arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Detail of the lower margin, with initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Miniature of a king enthroned surrounded by courtiers with Sir William Herbert and his wife, Anne Devereux wearing clothes decorated with their coats of arms, kneeling before him, with a full border with a scroll inscribed with William Herbert's and his wife's mottos reading 'e las sy longuement', and 'De toute'; a foliate initials 'O'(mighty), at the beginning of the Troy Book; and the arms of William Herbert and Anne Devereux with mottos, between the column of the text., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. King enthroned John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Detail of a miniature of a king enthroned surrounded by courtiers with Sir William Herbert and his wife, Anne Devereux kneeling before him, wearing clothes decorated with their coats of arms., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. King enthroned John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)