• Detail of a white vine initial 'P'(ost haec) in colours and gold., De legibus

'P'(ost haec) in colours and gold. ff. 1 and [166] are former pastedowns.Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.The translation was made between 1450-1451. White vine initial combined with a partial border including heraldic arms (f. 2). White vine initials in colours

• Detail of decorated initial., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

history, beginning his research in 1463 (see inscription on f. 37v).Numerous blank ruled unfoliated parchment leaves: 1 after f. 14, 7 after f. 16, 1 after f. 23, 6 after f. 25, 2 after f. 29, 3 after f. 30,

• Decorated initial 'E'(xistincabant) and foliate borders including hybrid figures, a monkey, birds, a butterfly and a garter with the inscribed motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' in the lower margin., Order of the Garter

n. 246). 1 large decorated initial with a full foliate border including hybrid figures, animals, birds, and a garter with the inscribed motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). 18

• Miniature of the Evangelist John, perhaps with Prochoros, and in the upper margin, and added cock and a donkey, with the inscription "The Holy J(oh)n the Theologian"., Four Gospels

Miniature of the Evangelist John, perhaps with Prochoros, and in the upper margin, and added cock and a donkey, with the inscription "The Holy J(oh)n the Theologian". The conclusions of each section of text are written in geometric shapes.Part

• Interlace initial 'N'(untiatum), at the beginning of Book 12 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcus), enclosing a depiction of a building, at the beginning of Book 13 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcus), enclosing a depiction of a building, at the beginning of Book 13 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Interlace initial 'N'(untiatum), at the beginning of Book 12 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Initial 'P'(lutarchus) decorated with foliate decoration in the style of 'white vine', but coloured, and full borders incorporating putti, birds, animals, buildings, at the beginning of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Detail of the heraldic arms of Ludovico Maria Sforza, at the beginning of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae, from the lower border., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

Atticae, from the lower border. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Initial 'P'(lutarchus) decorated with foliate decoration in the style of 'white vine', but coloured, at the beginning of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial:

• Detail of border., Noctes Atticae, with list of chapters (ff. 1-2)

Detail of border. 1 large faceted initial in gold on a coloured field, with partial floral border (f. 1). Heading in display capitals, and small initials, alternating gold, purple, gold, red, gold, green. 1 large 'white vine' initial: the initial

• The arms of Thomas Wall, Windsor herald, in the right margin, the signature of Jo Starkey, in the upper margin, that of Sir Robert Cotton ('Robert Cotton Bruceaus') with the date 1610 in the lower margin., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

by John Multon, London stationer (will of 1475): see discussion Christianson 1990.Thomas Wall, Windsor Herald, 1525: his added arms (f. 1); his name (ff. 89v-92); his record of purchase 'This boke belongyth unto T. Wall alias Wyndesor herault at armes

• Decorated initials, in the Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, with additions by the hand of Hans Pirckheimer dated from 1381 to 1463., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

history, beginning his research in 1463 (see inscription on f. 37v).Numerous blank ruled unfoliated parchment leaves: 1 after f. 14, 7 after f. 16, 1 after f. 23, 6 after f. 25, 2 after f. 29, 3 after f. 30,

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

by John Multon, London stationer (will of 1475): see discussion Christianson 1990.Thomas Wall, Windsor Herald, 1525: his added arms (f. 1); his name (ff. 89v-92); his record of purchase 'This boke belongyth unto T. Wall alias Wyndesor herault at armes

• Portrait of Matthias Corvinus., Epistolae (ff. 3-31); Ars poetica (ff. 31-39v); Sermones (index Satires)(ff. 40-79); Carmina (ff. 79v-149); Junii Juvenalis Satiræ (ff. 150-221); Auli Persii Flacci Volaterrani Satiræ (ff. 222-234)

Matthias Corvinus. 1 large white vine initial developing a three-sided white vine border, with heraldic arms supporter by putti in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 3). 14 smaller white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 22,

• Detail of decorated initials., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

history, beginning his research in 1463 (see inscription on f. 37v).Numerous blank ruled unfoliated parchment leaves: 1 after f. 14, 7 after f. 16, 1 after f. 23, 6 after f. 25, 2 after f. 29, 3 after f. 30,

• Illuminated initial on a text page., Débat de félicité

lines) in gold on red and/or blue grounds, and full borders (ff. 1, 24, 39v). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds. Small initials (1 line) in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Débat de félicité The Débat

• Detail of illuminated initial., De caelesti hierarchia (ff. 3-117), De mystica theologia (ff. 117v-120v), and Epistolae (ff. 120v-135v), preceded (ff. 1-2v) by a table of contents

illuminated initial. 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, with three-sided border incorporating arms. Small initials in gold on a ground of red, blue, and green; or in plain blue. De caelesti hierarchia (ff. 3-117), De mystica theologia

• Detail of lower border., De caelesti hierarchia (ff. 3-117), De mystica theologia (ff. 117v-120v), and Epistolae (ff. 120v-135v), preceded (ff. 1-2v) by a table of contents

lower border. 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, with three-sided border incorporating arms. Small initials in gold on a ground of red, blue, and green; or in plain blue. De caelesti hierarchia (ff. 3-117), De mystica theologia