• Detail of a miniature of Iobas offering poisoned wine to the feasting Alexander., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Text page., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Miniature of the death and burial of Alexander., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of the death and burial of Alexander., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Olympias., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Miniature of the death of Olympias., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Miniature of the death of Olympias; miniature of the death of Olympias., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Miniature of Charlemagne and four kings., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of the genealogical table of descendants of Louis IX, with Louis IX, Philip the Bold (1270-1285), his son Philip the Handsome (1285-1314), and in a line Philip's three sons, Louis X (1314-1316), Philip V (1316-1322), Charles IV (1322-1328), and his daughter Isabel, who married Edward II., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of the genealogical table of descendants of Louis IX in the form of a fleur-de-lys, with portraits of kings in medallions, supported by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester with his arms and the arms of Anjou encircled by the Garter., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of the genealogical table of descendants of Louis IX in the form of a fleur-de-lys, with portraits of kings in medallions, supported by Richard, duke of York with his arms and an initial 'M' encircled by the Garter., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of the arms of England impaled with the arms of Anjou, and a spray of flowers, from the lower border of the folio, with the inscription 'Mon seul desir Au Roy et vous et [est] bien server jusqu au mourir. Ce sachent tous mon seul desir au roy et vous'., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of Nectanebus and Olympias in bed, with a dragon at the foot of the bed., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Detail of a miniature of ships besieging Corunna., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium

• Miniature of the Visitation, with a full border., Book of Hours

Ormond', Elizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury, sister of 5th, 6th, and 7th earls of Ormond (d. 1473), 'Obitus Elizabeth comitisse Salop.', John, 6th earl of Ormond (d. c. 1477), 'Obitus Johannis comitis Ormond', Lore, 2nd wife of Thomas, 7th earl of

• Detail of a miniature of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead., Book of Hours

Ormond', Elizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury, sister of 5th, 6th, and 7th earls of Ormond (d. 1473), 'Obitus Elizabeth comitisse Salop.', John, 6th earl of Ormond (d. c. 1477), 'Obitus Johannis comitis Ormond', Lore, 2nd wife of Thomas, 7th earl of

• Miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels; and the historiated initial 'C'(um) of David playing the harp with two angels, at the beginning of Psalm 4., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester') The calendar of Sarum use includes John of Beverley (7th May, added to the Sarum calendar in 1416, f. 3); Frideswide annotated 'non sarum' (f. 5v);

• Detail of a miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester') The calendar of Sarum use includes John of Beverley (7th May, added to the Sarum calendar in 1416, f. 3); Frideswide annotated 'non sarum' (f. 5v);

• 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

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

• Illluminated initial 'A'( multis) with a partial foliate bar border., Miscellany including William of Malmesbury's De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3- 40v), Cassiodorus' De orthographia (ff. 41-52), Marbod's Lapidarium, with gloss (ff. 106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum (f. 224r-v), imperfect

106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum