• Decorated initials., Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany, including the Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 100-108v; 109-34), the Mirror of Light (ff. 155-168); Cistercian statuta and ordinationes (ff. 200-220); De sphaera (ff. 59-75); algorismus with commentary (ff. 26-43)

Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Initials Richard Dove of Buckfast, John Metham, and others England

• Pen-flourished initials 'O'(r' and 'M'(ost)., Roman de Tristan, imperfect at the beginning, with an index (ff. 149-154v) (index Romance of Tristan, Tristram, Romance of Tristam de Leonnais)

(index Romance of Tristan, Tristram, Romance of Tristam de Leonnais) Richard III, king of England (b. 1450, d. 1485): inscribed, as duke of Gloucester from 1461 to 1483) 'Iste Liber constat Ricardo Duci Gloucestre' (f. 155).Elizabeth ofYork (b. 1466,

• Text page with decorated initials., Roman de Tristan, imperfect at the beginning, with an index (ff. 149-154v) (index Romance of Tristan, Tristram, Romance of Tristam de Leonnais)

(index Romance of Tristan, Tristram, Romance of Tristam de Leonnais) Richard III, king of England (b. 1450, d. 1485): inscribed, as duke of Gloucester from 1461 to 1483) 'Iste Liber constat Ricardo Duci Gloucestre' (f. 155).Elizabeth ofYork (b. 1466,

• Decorated and coloured initials., Cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Byland, imperfect

Cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Byland, imperfect The latest document is dated 1393 and Richard II is described as 'rex ultimus', suggesting a terminus ante quem of 1413 (f. 92v). Burton 2004 p. xxvii argues that the absence of

• Pen-flourished initials 'C'(hrist) and 'P'(ride)., An explication of the ten commandments (imperfect at the beginning) (ff. 1-8v), Lavynham's Little Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins (De septem mortalibus peccatis), a tract on the Pater Noster (ff. 28v-48v), and various other religious works (imperfect at the end)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Pen-flourished initials Richard Lavenham and various other authors (index Richard Lavynham,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

C-text of Piers Plowman . Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography , Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Associati on of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Description of Man's Limbs (IMEV 4070 ) 'Whereof is mad al mankynde'. 'God of his mercy haue vs in mynde. Amen'. English Kail 1904, pp. 64-69. ff. 115r-116r Follies of the Duke of Burgundy (IMEV 1939 ) 'A remembraunce of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: Modern Language Association of America, p. 292. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Hall, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, at the Auction Sale of Books, late the Property of the Reverend Duncalf, deceased Minister of Peak Forest, in the County of Derby, buy this book, (No. 40 of Sale Catalogue) (prices at which it was

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a list of sheriffs and mayors of Chester for the years 1469-1499. Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a