• null, Stimulus divini amoris, and other devotional texts and prayers

initials, with red pen-flourishing infilled with green wash, some including dragons (characteristic of Utrecht, see Gumbert 1990) (ff. 1, 27v, 51v, 70, 73), the first accompanied by a full border of red penwork infilled with green wash, framed in blue.

• null, Consilia medica and other texts

1 large initial in red (corrected with brown) with red pen-flourishing (f. 4). 21 smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in red, at the beginning of the texts (ff. 7, 31v, 40, 43, 101, 156, 159v, 161,

• Initial 'A'(ristoteles) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Aristoteles's De generatione animalium., Consilia medica and other texts

beginning of Aristoteles's De generatione animalium. 1 large initial in red (corrected with brown) with red pen-flourishing (f. 4). 21 smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in red, at the beginning of the texts (ff. 7, 31v, 40,

• Illuminated white vine initials 'C' (onfessionis) and 'M'(agnus) with a putto, bird and butterfly, on the first page of text of an extract from Augustine's Retractions (chapter 6 of book 2) as a preface to the Confessions., Confessions, Retractions (extract)

la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? Cardinal Domenico Capranica (b. 1400, d. 1458), theologian, canonist, and statesman.On ff. iv and 1 a partly erased (?) 17th century inscription: ‘71 Collegii’, possibly referring to the Collegio Capranica, Rome, which in a

• Detail of illluminated initials., Confessions, Retractions (extract)

la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? Cardinal Domenico Capranica (b. 1400, d. 1458), theologian, canonist, and statesman.On ff. iv and 1 a partly erased (?) 17th century inscription: ‘71 Collegii’, possibly referring to the Collegio Capranica, Rome, which in a

• 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 initial 'R'(everendo), at the beginning of Petrus de Braco's Compendium juris canonici., Compendium juris canonici

Decorated initial 'R'(everendo), at the beginning of Petrus de Braco's Compendium juris canonici. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with blue penwork decoration (f. 1). 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue or brown (ff. 53, 70).

• Detail of decorated initial., Compendium juris canonici

Detail of decorated initial. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with blue penwork decoration (f. 1). 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue or brown (ff. 53, 70). Large and small initials in plain red, blue (or

• Flourished display script 'Ulpianus' and initial 'R'(es), in Justinian's Digestum Novum., Glossed Digestum Novum, preceeded by an added table of contents (ff. 1-2v)

with pen-flourishing in blue or red, and large initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in blue or red, or 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 3, 31 [puzzle initial], 71, 97v,

• Decorated initial 'P'(ar quidem) with blue penwork decoration., Various texts including De Senectute, Paradoxa stoicorum, Invectiva ad hypocritas, Somnium Scipionis, De amicitia

parchment. 6 large initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour including foliate decoration, a face (ff. 1, 16v, 24, 30v, 51, 67v). Large initial in red containing blue penwork with reserved designs, surrounded by dark red