• Detail of roundels of various foetal presentations., Medical miscellany, including texts on anatomy (ff. 1-51v); various treatments of wounds, broken bones, and internal ruptures (ff. 53-152); recipes (ff. 154-193v); an amplified translation of the gynecological sections from Gilbertus Anglicus's Compendium medicine, ending imperfect (ff. 194-232)

1 and 234 are parchment flyleaves. Roundels of foetal presentations in colours on red grounds (ff. 217-218v). 1 3-sided border in colours and gold with foliate decoration and a large initial in colours on a gold ground (f. 2).

• Historiated initial 'I' of two Creation scenes: the Creation of the Sky and of the Earth. The Creator is represented with two faces., Cutting from a Gradual

for this artist. The present initial is boxed with Add. 37472, ff. 1, 3-7. To see this initial in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 37472.Musical notation. 1 historiated initial 'I' in colours and gold, of two Creation scenes: the

• Decorated initials., Antidotarium

Decorated initials. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration in

• Illuminated border and initial 'Q'(uoniam) with heraldic decoration., Antidotarium

Illuminated border and initial 'Q'(uoniam) with heraldic decoration. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3). Large initials in

• Decorated initials., Antidotarium

Decorated initials. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration in

• Decorated initials., Antidotarium

Decorated initials. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration in

• Detail of inscription: 'Loyale a belle H gloucester/ Royamont vester la duchesse'., Antidotarium

Detail of inscription: 'Loyale a belle H gloucester/ Royamont vester la duchesse'. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f.

• Inscriptions, including 'Loyale a belle H gloucester/ Royamont vester la duchesse'., Antidotarium

Inscriptions, including 'Loyale a belle H gloucester/ Royamont vester la duchesse'. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3).

• Illuminated initial 'E'(go) with thin white vine decoration, foliage, a parrot and an owl, at the beginning of Book 1 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, incorporating a parrot, owl, butterfly, and thistle (f. 1). 15 smaller white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.The inserted first leaf has an Easter table, covering 1480-1831 (f. 1)1 large interlace initial, in colours and gold (f. 2). 14 large white vine initials (another excised, 14v), in colours

• Decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing in Martinus Polonus Chronicon., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, to 1285

Decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing in Martinus Polonus Chronicon. 1 small initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate filigree extending into the margins (f. 1). Initials in blue with red penwork decoration, sometimes foliate, and

• Puzzle initial 'I'(mpaciens), with pen-flourishing and decorated extensions, at the beginning of Marchesinus's Mammotrectus., Mammotrectus super Bibliam (ends imperfectly)

and decorated extensions, at the beginning of Marchesinus's Mammotrectus. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (f. 1). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or

• Illuminated border and initial 'Q'uoniam' with heraldic decoration., Antidotarium

Illuminated border and initial 'Q'uoniam' with heraldic decoration. 1 full border in colours and gold with gold balls and foliate forms (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours with heraldinc decoration on a gold ground (f. 3). Large initials in

• Decorated initial 'H'(er) combined with a full foliate border with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering at the beginning of the text., The Prose Brut (Chronicle of England; extended version to 1419, in the reign of Henry V (r. 1413-22))

Vols 1 & 2, ed. Friedrich .W.D. Brie (Oxford: EETS no.131,136, 1906,1908) contains text edited from Rawlinson B 171 Large initial in colours and gold combined with a full foliate border with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering (f. 1). Initials

• Decorated initial 'D'(eum) with pen-flourishing in book 1., Theological miscellany entitled 'Compendium theologicae veritatis'

Decorated initial 'D'(eum) with pen-flourishing in book 1. f. 1 is a parchment leaf. f. 1* consists of a paper and a parchment flyleaves pasted to each other. ff. 1*-2* are flyleaves with later inscriptions.Quire signatures (numbers on the recto

• Inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Added tinted drawing

of the text.Inserted paper leaves with title pages and text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 1 with, on one side a pen & brown ink wash faintly tinted in

• Drawing of the Mocking of Christ., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

Drawing of the Mocking of Christ. Scott related the format, page design, and iconography of this manuscript to that of Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 161 and Yale MS 27. Numerous drawings of types in brown ink, most with

• Decorated and coloured initials., Medical miscellany, including a lunary (ff. 55v-77)

initials. ff. i, 1, 137, and ii (at the end of the volume after f. 137) are parchment flyleaves with a Latin text in Gothic hybrid script; there is an unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 136 that is part of

• Drawings of various surgical procedures for fistula in ano in John Arderne's Liber Medicinarum., Liber Medicinarum

Paraphs in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red. Drawings in brown, red, yellow and/or green, 1 also with blue (f. 85v), often of plants or body parts, or surgical procedures. Liber Medicinarum Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a bell in John Arderne's Liber Medicinarum., Liber Medicinarum

Paraphs in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red. Drawings in brown, red, yellow and/or green, 1 also with blue (f. 85v), often of plants or body parts, or surgical procedures. Liber Medicinarum Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,