• Coloured drawings depicting Sir John Mandeville as a witness to foreign marvels, here: the city of Constantinople, Travels (index Itinerarium)

depicting Sir John Mandeville as a witness to foreign marvels, here: the city of Constantinople Written in a Norfolk dialect. Combination of the beginning of text B with the end of text A (Doyle, 1986).Made in a vertical quarto shape,

• Sir John Mandeville meditates on the Church of St. Nicholas in Bethlehem, where the Virgin Mary milked her overflowing breasts onto red marble stones., Travels (index Itinerarium)

Sir John Mandeville meditates on the Church of St. Nicholas in Bethlehem, where the Virgin Mary milked her overflowing breasts onto red marble stones. Written in a Norfolk dialect. Combination of the beginning of text B with the end of

• Coloured drawing depicting Sir John Mandeville witnessing the griffins of Bacharia., Travels (index Itinerarium)

depicting Sir John Mandeville witnessing the griffins of Bacharia. Written in a Norfolk dialect. Combination of the beginning of text B with the end of text A (Doyle, 1986).Made in a vertical quarto shape, perhaps for travel or for carrying:

• Full-page frame with interlace, and words in gold and silver, before the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

gold and silver, before the beginning of John. The shelfmark 'AII' and the title on the fore-edge in Latin in black ink and '3' on the top edge of the leaves. Matthew and Mark were presumably 'AI'. 4 full-page frames

• Illluminated initials in the Friar's tale., The Canterbury Tales

Dorothie, née Leuenthorp: inscribed with their names (f. 286v; see Wright 1972).Other inscriptions include 'John Martant', 16th century (ff. 144, 180), and 'John Thomsyn' and 'John Thomsun Symond, late 16th-early 17th century (ff. 165v, 284v).John Somers, 1st baron Somers (b.

• Illuminated border with acanthus leaves and foliate decoration in geometric panels, and an illuminated initial 'T'(on) at the beginning of Theodore Gaza's Introductio grammatica, book I., Introductio grammatica, Book I

par la grace de dieu Roy de france et de naur(?)' (f. 1). John Callander (b. 1721 or after, d. 1789), antiquary: given by him to John MacGouan, F. R. S. (inscription, f. 1v).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D.,

• Initial 'A' with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of John Capgrave's Life of Catherine., The Life of Catherine (ff. 1-117v), etc.

at the beginning of John Capgrave's Life of Catherine. 1 large initial in red with pen-flourishing in brown (f. 1). Smaller initials in plain red. Capital letters highlighted in red. The Life of Catherine (ff. 1-117v), etc. Table for Easter

• Foliate headpiece and initial with penwork decoration at the beginning of John Koukouzeles's Anagrammatismoi., Anagrammatismoi for the principal feasts, and hymns, tropes, and other theological miscellanea

penwork decoration at the beginning of John Koukouzeles's Anagrammatismoi. Musical notation (with neumes). Foliate pink headpiece (f. 11). Small red or pink initials, some with penwork decoration. Anagrammatismoi for the principal feasts, and hymns, tropes, and other theological miscellanea ?

• Added foliate headpiece and decorated initial in John Chrysostom's Commentary in Matthaeum., Homilies on Matthew (index In Matthaeum), imperfect

and decorated initial in John Chrysostom's Commentary in Matthaeum. ff. 1, 8, 137-138, and 180-187 are replacements in a 13th- (?) century hand. 3 pink foliate headpieces and large decorated pink initials (ff. 138v, 180v, and 187v) added in the

• Initial 'H'(anc) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Ovid's Heroides; headings in unusual ornamental capitals., Heroides, with glosses

possibly in his sale, 29 March 1742, p. 95 lot 104.? Unidentified owner: perhaps in John Egerton, ~Catalogue of Books, including the Library of John Smeaton … and Many Other Collections~, 1794, item 3891, priced £3 3s.Sir Robert Smyth (b.

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n), developing three-sided extensions, at the beginning of Oon of foure, John Wycliffe's English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels., New Testament in the later Wycliffe version (ends imperfect), including Oon of foure (ff. 19-86)

at the beginning of Oon of foure, John Wycliffe's English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in purple and red, developing three-sided extensions in red and

• Pen-flourished initials 'A'(ffter) and 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise Inscribed 'this is my name Richard Bruer' (f. 39). ? John Clark: inscribed 'John Clark' (ff. 53v, 79v, 120, 124v); 'scriptum per me Johannem Clarke' (f. 58v).Inscribed 'L'Aedry (?) Moulton' (f. 46v);

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise Inscribed 'this is my name Richard Bruer' (f. 39). ? John Clark: inscribed 'John Clark' (ff. 53v, 79v, 120, 124v); 'scriptum per me Johannem Clarke' (f. 58v).Inscribed 'L'Aedry (?) Moulton' (f. 46v);

• Flourished initial 'F'(ro), at the beginning of John Lydgate's Guydo de Warwih., Collection of Poems

at the beginning of John Lydgate's Guydo de Warwih. 19 small initials in blue with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of the poems (ff. 3, 18v, 28, 35, 41v, 51, 61v, 67, 79, 81, 83v, 85v, 88v, 90, 91v, 96,

• Decorated initial 'E', at the beginning of the Law treatise entitled 'Breton'., Law treatise called Britton

Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller and small initials in plain red or blue. Law treatise called Britton John Eltonhed(?), 15th-century: inscriptions (ff. 188, 188v).Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh of Toulouse, his sale in 1789: note by 'F[rancis].D[ouce] .'

• Flourished initial 'T', in the Law treatise called Britton., Law treatise called Britton

Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller and small initials in plain red or blue. Law treatise called Britton John Eltonhed(?), 15th-century: inscriptions (ff. 188, 188v).Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh of Toulouse, his sale in 1789: note by 'F[rancis].D[ouce] .'

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n), and part of the three-sided extensions, at the beginning of Oon of foure, John Wycliffe's English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels., New Testament in the later Wycliffe version (ends imperfect), including Oon of foure (ff. 19-86)

extensions, at the beginning of Oon of foure, John Wycliffe's English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in purple and red, developing three-sided extensions in red

• Pen-flourished initial 'A'(ffter)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise Inscribed 'this is my name Richard Bruer' (f. 39). ? John Clark: inscribed 'John Clark' (ff. 53v, 79v, 120, 124v); 'scriptum per me Johannem Clarke' (f. 58v).Inscribed 'L'Aedry (?) Moulton' (f. 46v);

• Pen-flourished initial 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise Inscribed 'this is my name Richard Bruer' (f. 39). ? John Clark: inscribed 'John Clark' (ff. 53v, 79v, 120, 124v); 'scriptum per me Johannem Clarke' (f. 58v).Inscribed 'L'Aedry (?) Moulton' (f. 46v);

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise Inscribed 'this is my name Richard Bruer' (f. 39). ? John Clark: inscribed 'John Clark' (ff. 53v, 79v, 120, 124v); 'scriptum per me Johannem Clarke' (f. 58v).Inscribed 'L'Aedry (?) Moulton' (f. 46v);