• Historiated initial 'F'(ratres) depicting Andrew at the beginning of the Sanctorale, with a full historiated border incorporating putti holding garlands or playing musical instruments, a male saint, and busts of classical? figures., Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• Historiated initial 'F'(ratres) depicting All Saints, and historiated border incorporating putti, Renaissance candelabra, and Peter holding a key., Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• Full foliate border containing putti, a unicorn, a female head in profile, a gem, and an escutcheon with the arms of Tedaldi, and an illuminated initial 'S'(emper) at the beginning of Juvenal's Satires., Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

Full foliate border containing putti, a unicorn, a female head in profile, a gem, and an escutcheon with the arms of Tedaldi, and an illuminated initial 'S'(emper) at the beginning of Juvenal's Satires. 1 full foliate border, heraldic arms,

• Initial 'D'(eus) decorated with abstracted foliate forms in the bowl, at the beginning of Psalm 69, and seventeenth-century marginal annotation of a copy of part of a charter/debt? with the name 'Johnem Lone de Brampton in comitatu Suff' signed 'Wm Reynolds'., Commentary on the Psalms (imperfect, starting in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 9 and ending in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 146)

Reynolds' , f. 116, and 'Anthony Harris of Cheston in the county of Suff', f. 92v, in the same hand). John Reynolds, 17th century: (inscription, f. 282v). ? Price: 'ei/r', f. i verso. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

1 full foliate border, heraldic arms, putti, unicorn, and profile heads (f. 2). 2 large initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 79). Small initials in plain blue (or absent). Satires (index Saturae, Satirae) A member of the Tedaldi

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

1 full foliate border, heraldic arms, putti, unicorn, and profile heads (f. 2). 2 large initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 79). Small initials in plain blue (or absent). Satires (index Saturae, Satirae) A member of the Tedaldi

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

1 full foliate border, heraldic arms, putti, unicorn, and profile heads (f. 2). 2 large initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 79). Small initials in plain blue (or absent). Satires (index Saturae, Satirae) A member of the Tedaldi

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

1 full foliate border, heraldic arms, putti, unicorn, and profile heads (f. 2). 2 large initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 79). Small initials in plain blue (or absent). Satires (index Saturae, Satirae) A member of the Tedaldi

• null, Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• null, Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• null, Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• null, Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• null, Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o

• Decorated foliate initial 'C'(um) and three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of book 2 of Petrus Crescentius Bononiensis's Liber ruralium., Liber ruralium, followed by a tabula (ff. 200-207)

of northern saints in red, e.g. Cuthbert (20 March), and his translation (4 Sept., with an octave), Wilfrid (24 April), John of Beverley (7 May); in plain ink are William of York (8 June), Carileffus (1 July), the rare Boisil

• Diagram, De chirobalistra (ff. 16v-19), Belopoeea (ff. 19-32v), Extracts (ff. 33v-52)

Extracts (ff. 33v-52) Written in 1545: colophon ( f. 358).The monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai: inscription (f. 1). ? John Spencer Smith, minister plenipotentiary to Turkey: sale catalogue notices that the manuscript was 'collected by one of His Majesty's

• Detail of marginal diagram., De chirobalistra (ff. 16v-19), Belopoeea (ff. 19-32v), Extracts (ff. 33v-52)

Extracts (ff. 33v-52) Written in 1545: colophon ( f. 358).The monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai: inscription (f. 1). ? John Spencer Smith, minister plenipotentiary to Turkey: sale catalogue notices that the manuscript was 'collected by one of His Majesty's

• Detail of a miniature of a seated author with a book, with three other scholars; outside, two doctors consulting the stars., Régime de Senté, Li Livres dou Tresor (extract)

hind-quarters of a lion, collared, chained, and ringed or (f. 158v), inscribed twice 'the Lorde Morley's best' (ff. 157v, 158). John Messe, binder: inscribed twice by the same hand as above 'Iohannes Meese me ligavit', late 15th century (f. 158).The

• Miniature of a seated author with a book, with three other scholars; outside, two doctors consulting the stars., Régime de Senté, Li Livres dou Tresor (extract)

hind-quarters of a lion, collared, chained, and ringed or (f. 158v), inscribed twice 'the Lorde Morley's best' (ff. 157v, 158). John Messe, binder: inscribed twice by the same hand as above 'Iohannes Meese me ligavit', late 15th century (f. 158).The

• Detail of a miniature of burning costumes of the 'hommes sauvages' during a masked dance in Paris, at the beginning of chapter 32., Chroniques

Detail of a miniature of burning costumes of the 'hommes sauvages' during a masked dance in Paris, at the beginning of chapter 32. Includes a volume 4 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1389-1400, preceded by a

• Evangelist portrait of Mark as a scribe, in colours and gold., Gospel Lectionary

colours and gold. Musical notation (ecphonetic).Contents:Daily readings in John (ff. 1-65v);Saturday-Sunday readings in Matthew (ff. 66v-103);Saturday-Sunday readings in Luke (ff. 104-143);Saturday-Sunday readings in Mark (ff. 143v-187);Holy Week readings (ff. 187v-245v);Synaxarion (ff. 246-359).f. 66 is a blank leaf.The portrait of Luke