• 'Champ' initial (added later) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing., Bible historiale

40v, 44, 48, 54v, 56v, 58, 87, 118), 14th century.?14th century legal document written in Anglicana used as flyleaf (ff. 1, 128; includes the names 'Alex', 'Wilhelm ?Gasy', 'Jacobo de Bermynghem' and mentions London).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st

• Detail of a diagram of the Levite camps around the Ark of Covenant., Postilla litteralis in vetus et novum testamentum

initials in colours and gold, usually containing hybrids, with partial borders and 1 full border with drolleries (f. 1), at the beginning of all books and prologues (ff. 1, 2, 43v, 77, 92v, 110v, 129, 140, 151, 153, 169v, 182,

• Miniature of the presentation of the Decretals to Gregory IX by Raymond of Penyafort, at the beginning of book 1., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

IX by Raymond of Penyafort, at the beginning of book 1. Includes Decretals of Gregory IX with the glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma, incorporated with the Novellae of Innocent IV with the gloss of Bernard of Compostella Iunior (ff.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'F'(uit) of Elcanah and his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah, at the beginning of Kings 1., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

two wives, Hannah and Peninnah, at the beginning of Kings 1. Includes table of contents (ff. 1r-v).The manuscript is related in style to the Alphonso Psalter (Add. 24686) and, according to Sandler 1986, was illuminated by two artists (Hand I:

• Detail of a miniature of the presentation of the Decretals to Gregory IX by Raymond of Penyafort., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

6 miniatures in colours and gold and large foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 25, 165, 233, 259, 332). Numerous foliate initials, some with dragons, in colours and gold, with marginal extensions forming

• 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

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