• Decorated initial., Orationes

Decorated initial. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial border incorporating heraldic arms (f. 1). Small foliate initials in muted colours, at the start of each speech (ff. 14, 35, 54v, 60v, 95v, 111v, 129v, 137,

• Decorated initial., Orationes

Decorated initial. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial border incorporating heraldic arms (f. 1). Small foliate initials in muted colours, at the start of each speech (ff. 14, 35, 54v, 60v, 95v, 111v, 129v, 137,

• Decorated initial., Orationes

Decorated initial. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial border incorporating heraldic arms (f. 1). Small foliate initials in muted colours, at the start of each speech (ff. 14, 35, 54v, 60v, 95v, 111v, 129v, 137,

• Decorated initial., Orationes

Decorated initial. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial border incorporating heraldic arms (f. 1). Small foliate initials in muted colours, at the start of each speech (ff. 14, 35, 54v, 60v, 95v, 111v, 129v, 137,

• Decorated initial., Orationes

Decorated initial. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial border incorporating heraldic arms (f. 1). Small foliate initials in muted colours, at the start of each speech (ff. 14, 35, 54v, 60v, 95v, 111v, 129v, 137,

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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,