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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a monk and a nun approaching a house., 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 a nun kneeling before a monk., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

Decorated initial 'I'(ncipit) with a marginal extension containing a hybrid and birds at the beginning of the prologue to the apocryphal epistle of Jeremiah, and a historiated initial 'P'(ropter) of Jeremiah giving a letter to a messenger with a marginal extension containing a hybrid and a dragon, at the beginning of the apocryphal epistle of Jeremiah., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

Miniature in four registers at the end of the prologue to the Psalter: the Crucifixion, the Martyrdom of Thomas of Canterbury, the Virgin instructing Thomas to wear a hair shirt and, in the same register, Christ coming to Thomas, and Christ standing before Thomas, in the lower register. Illuminated initial 'D'(avid) with a hybrid, at the beginning of the prologue to the Psalter., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

Decorated initial 'S'(anctum) and 'I'(onas) with a dog, human heads and marginal extensions containing hybrids, at the beginning of the prologues to Jonah, and a historiated initial 'E'(t factum est), of Nineveh in the upper register and Jonah in the mouth of the fish, in the lower register, at the beginning of Jonah., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

Historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome, dressed in grey habit, sitting at a desk in the act of writing, holding pen and knife, with marginal drolleries and hybrids, and four pairs of figures standing on columns: Franciscans (top left), Dominicans (top right), Pied Friars or Trinitarians? (bottom left) and Carmelites (bottom right), at the beginning of the prologue., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation and the scenes of Adam and Eve cycle: the Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with the Crucifixion in the lower register, at the beginning of Genesis. Full border with hunting scenes, an animal parody of a bishop and cleric, birds and hybrids., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

Beginning of a glossary of herbs in Old French, Anglo-Norman and Latin., Musical, medical and literary miscellany, 'Sumer is icumen in', Fables and Lays of Marie de France (index Fables de Marie de France, Lais) (ff. 40-67v, 118-160), poems by Walter Map (ff. 68v-74v), goliardic satires and songs (ff. 75-107), and the 'Song of Lewes' (ff. 107-114).

glossary of herbs in Old French, Anglo-Norman and Latin. Evidence of the loss of 22 leaves after f. 37 from Edward Lapworth's foliation (see Provenance).Musical notation on staves (ff. 2-15).Texts below top line.Contents include: Middle English lyric 'Sumer is icumen

Large coloured initial and square music notations on six-line staves for the four-part rota canon (song for singing in rounds) 'Sumer is icumen in' ("Summer is 'comin' in"). Middle English text in black ink, alternative Latin text in red ink., Musical, medical and literary miscellany, 'Sumer is icumen in', Fables and Lays of Marie de France (index Fables de Marie de France, Lais) (ff. 40-67v, 118-160), poems by Walter Map (ff. 68v-74v), goliardic satires and songs (ff. 75-107), and the 'Song of Lewes' (ff. 107-114).

Middle English text in black ink, alternative Latin text in red ink. Evidence of the loss of 22 leaves after f. 37 from Edward Lapworth's foliation (see Provenance).Musical notation on staves (ff. 2-15).Texts below top line.Contents include: Middle English lyric

List of contents of a collection of polyphonic music, now lost., Musical, medical and literary miscellany, 'Sumer is icumen in', Fables and Lays of Marie de France (index Fables de Marie de France, Lais) (ff. 40-67v, 118-160), poems by Walter Map (ff. 68v-74v), goliardic satires and songs (ff. 75-107), and the 'Song of Lewes' (ff. 107-114).

foliation (see Provenance).Musical notation on staves (ff. 2-15).Texts below top line.Contents include: Middle English lyric 'Sumer is icumen in' (f. 11v), the earliest known example of English polyphony;Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum (from the Secretum Secretorum; ff. 22-23 and 35v-36v);A