• Detail of a miniature of Hector slaying Patroculus., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Hector slaying Patroculus John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Detail of a miniature of Agamemnon at council in his tent, with Achilles in bed behind, Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Agamemnon and Achilles John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Detail of a miniature of Ajax complaining to Agamemnon, while behind, the Greeks are preparing for departure., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Ajax and Agamemnon John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Miniature of Ajax complaining to Agamemnon, while behind, the Greeks are preparing for departure., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Ajax and Agamemnon John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Text page., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Miniature of the Wheel of Fortune with a king on the top, with a partial border and a foliate initial 'T'(henvyons), at the beginning of book 2., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Wheel of Fortune John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Miniature of Hector slaying Patroculus, with an illuminated initial 'W'(hen) and a partial foliate border., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Hector slaying Patroculus John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Miniature of Michael driving Lucifer and the other fallen angels from heaven., Troy Book, Siege of Thebes, Testament and The reignes of the kyngis of England; A Treatise between Information and Truth; On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland; Le assemble de dyeus; Descent of the Lords Percy

catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Michael and Lucifer John Lydgate, William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris London England, S. E. (London)

• Text page with calligraphic initials., Testament and The reignes of the kyngis of England, A Treatise between Information and Truth; On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland; Le assemble de dyeus; Descent of the Lords Percy

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic initials John Lydgate, William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris London England, S. E. (London?)

• Miniature of Priam and his court mourning over the body of Hector., Testament and The reignes of the kyngis of England, A Treatise between Information and Truth; On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland; Le assemble de dyeus; Descent of the Lords Percy

in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Priam John Lydgate, William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris London England, S. E. (London?)

• Miniature of Agamemnon at council in his tent, with Achilles in bed behind, with an illuminated initial 'E' and a partial foliate border., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Agamemnon and Achilles John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Text page with inhabited and flourished initials., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page John Lydgate London England, S. E. ( London?)

• Emblem of a man (a king?) wearing a crown of flames and holding an orb marked 'Sol' in the centre of a radiating Tudor Rose inscribed with verses 'Ex paterno trono radii splendoris/ ex matre candor virginii decoris/ ex patre flos rubi coloris / ex utroque redemptio nostri amoris', and tears dropping onto an eye weeping onto a word 'cor', with Percy badge of a crescent, and a scroll bearing an inscription reading, 'I receyue noo lighte but of thy bearmes bright. The light / benevoulent causith cor to relent for remembrynge / thy goodenes contenuall which remanith perpetuall / Cor cannot but of duti he muste distill yet he saith dutie / cannot recompence a cordinge too his goode will'., Troy Book (ff. 6-146); Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162)

of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Emblem of Percy moon receiving light from the Tudor sun John Lydgate London England, S. E. (

• Flourished initial., Psalter, a metrical version (the Surtees Psalter version)

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Full border in

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of a metrical version of the Psalms in Middle English., The Psalms in English verse (the Surtees Society version), with parallel Latin, and Latin prayers

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Large puzzle initials

• Decorated initial 'R'(ev[er]ent) with foliate feathering including acanthus leaves at the beginning of Lydgate's Secrees of Old Philisoffres., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

including acanthus leaves at the beginning of Lydgate's Secrees of Old Philisoffres. One of 12 suriving complete copies of the text.Inserted paper leaves with title pages and text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Full border and white vine initial 'G'(allia) at the beginning of Julius Caesar's De bello gallico., De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],