miniature of a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund
and the building of the abbey at Bury St. Edmond's. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and
Edmund in the abbey at Bury St. Edmunds. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin
and the miraculous appearance of five springs. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin Fremund
on the right, a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Cadmus Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Initials Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
chapel of St Giles near Brompton-on-Swale, but now belongs to the chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle. Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 89-136). Including a calendar (ff. 4-9v), the
note on the contents, beginning 'Liber sancti edmundi in quo continentur', c. 1375 (f. 1).? Possibly notes of 'the librarian', John of Boston 'Boston Buriensis', a monk of Bury St Edmunds (said to have fl. c. 1410) (ff. 1, 159);
collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Saturn Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)
brown initials with penwork decoration. Line-fillers in red. Astronomical/astrological compendium, including a nativity horoscope for Henry VI (the 'Codex Holbrookensis') John Holbroke [Holbrook] (d. 1437), mathematician and astronomer: perhaps written by him: inscription, after a contents list written by Roger