• Initial 'P' with foliate decoration with ownership inscription of Sir Robert Cotton., Historia Romana (ff. 4-50), Historia gentis Longobardorum (ff. 51-102v); Gesta Alexandri magni (index: Alexander the Great) (ff. 102-130).

magni occur in the same order in Royal 12 C.iv. Large initial in red and green with penwork decoration (f. 1). Numerous initials in red or green, some with penwork decoration. Small initials in alternating red or green and numerals

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost hec)., De moribus (second part of De virtutibus et vitiis)

and founder of insurance offices: his stamp (f. 1); probably given to the New Philosophical Institution, founded shortly before his death. The New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End: stamps (ff. 1, 174v). Sir John Trelawny: his sale, 28 June

• Historiated initial 'P' of a personification of Faith holding a disc bearing a gold cross, paten, and chalice, and a personification of Faithlessness worshipping an idol, from Guillelmus Alvernus's De moribus., De moribus (second part of De virtutibus et vitiis)

and founder of insurance offices: his stamp (f. 1); probably given to the New Philosophical Institution, founded shortly before his death. The New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End: stamps (ff. 1, 174v). Sir John Trelawny: his sale, 28 June

• Historiated initial 'S'(pes) of a personification of Hope receiving a gift from God, and a personification of Desparation impaling himself on a sword, from Guillelmus Alvernus's De moribus., De moribus (second part of De virtutibus et vitiis)

and founder of insurance offices: his stamp (f. 1); probably given to the New Philosophical Institution, founded shortly before his death. The New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End: stamps (ff. 1, 174v). Sir John Trelawny: his sale, 28 June

• Initial 'N'(unc) with pen-flourishing, from Guillelmus Alvernus's De moribus., De moribus (second part of De virtutibus et vitiis)

and founder of insurance offices: his stamp (f. 1); probably given to the New Philosophical Institution, founded shortly before his death. The New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End: stamps (ff. 1, 174v). Sir John Trelawny: his sale, 28 June

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1884. c. 130 c. 90 mm Unascertainable Double and single columns with c. 40 lines. Margins marked and ruled. Scribe 1 - ff. 1-5, small/tiny book-hand, possibly French. Body height: 1mm. Scribe 2 - ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

pricking visible. Writing space: Item 1 - 145 x 90 mm. Item 2 - 155 x 90 mm. Item 3 - double columns 150 x 45 mm each. Columns are single and double. Lines: Item 1 - 27; Item 2

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribal Dialect of ff. 119r-164v: Northamptonshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 147). A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

comencent les singnes del iour de nouel'. 'Si le iour de noel auent par dimaines bon iuer'. French Thorndike 1923, 1, 678-9; Vising 1923, 305; ff. 41r-46r Prognostications of lucky and unlucky days according to the moon. 'Ci comence le