Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with interlace patterns within full-page rectangular frames of gold and
crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory
cornucopiae, dolphins, sphinxes, masks, trophies and heraldic decoration, in colours and gold, at the beginning of texts or books (ff. 1, 17, 26v-27 [miniature f. 26v, accompanying border f. 27], 37, 47v, 59, 73v, 88, 101v, 115, 131v, 148v, 164,
or in red with blue penwork decoration, at the canon of the mass (ff. 115v-116). 1 large initial in blue with penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red, green, or blue, some with penwork decoration, 3 with decoration in
patron of the arts: inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '13 die Mensis Augusti, A. D. 1724' (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime
of Birmingham, February 2004. Related Manuscripts and other documents Scribal Scribe 1 of this manuscript is probably scribe 1 of Sidney Sussex 74 (Fletcher, p. 152) (Atlas - Scribe 1 of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 74 - north-east Worcestershire
Library Egerton 1993 s. xiv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 390 232, LP 7130 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). An early to mid fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary written by one scribe