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boren was'. English Conlee 1991, pp. 10-17. f. 197v Doomsday ( IMEV 39 67 ) 'Uuen i þenke on domesdai wel sore mai me drede'. 'Amen'. English Cf. Brown 1932, pp. 42-54. ff. 198r-200r ( IMEV 3517 ) English Items

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'How many partyse of speche ben ther? viii'. Late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century grammatical treatise. Ff. 57v-58r blank. English Thomson 1984, p. 55. Scribe of the English grammar beginning on f. 53r wrote in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: dotted y ; sigma

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Copying of Vernacular Literature in England ’ , Yearbook of English Studies , 33, 1-17, pp. 16-17. De Vries, F. C., ed, 1966. Floris and Blauncheflur : A Middle English Romance. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary , Groningen: Drukkerij

• Initial 'P' with foliate decoration with ownership inscription of Sir Robert Cotton., Historia Romana (ff. 4-50), Historia gentis Longobardorum (ff. 51-102v); Gesta Alexandri magni (index: Alexander the Great) (ff. 102-130).

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Tite 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698 catalogue of

• Miniature in four compartments, with portraits of English kings: William I and William Rufus, in the upper register, and Henry I and Stephen, in the lower register., Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III; Continuation of Chronica maiora

of 1534; notes in his hand (ff. 10-100).Added leaves replacing the original folios, 16th century (ff. 34-35v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1041' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Miniature in four compartments, with portraits of English kings: Henry II and Richard I, in the upper register, and John and Henry III, in the lower register., Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III; Continuation of Chronica maiora

of 1534; notes in his hand (ff. 10-100).Added leaves replacing the original folios, 16th century (ff. 34-35v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1041' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop approaching a church, while the Virgin Mary leads a woman away behind the church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of the Virgin Mary leading a bishop and woman away from a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper