• Detail of inhabited initial 'A'., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

Detail of inhabited initial 'A'. The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was originally part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the

• Historiated initial 'A', with foliate borders., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

Historiated initial 'A', with foliate borders. The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was originally part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by

• Miniature of Charles V, king of France with his court, receiving a book from the translator, Jean Corbechon, with a full border containing the royal arms of England on banners held by two angels and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's IV colours of red and blue, with two shields with the same arms differenced, for the king's two sons, in the lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the outer margin, at the beginning of the prologue., Ruralia commoda in French translation (Rustican des ruraulx prouffiz du labour des champs)

and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the outer margin, at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the Commoda Ruralia of Petrus de Crescentiis, in twelve books,

• Miniature of the author discussing with other two men outside cattle and horse-shed, with a full border containing the royal arms of England on a banner held by an angel and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's IV colours of red and blue, with two shields with the same arms differenced, for the king's two sons, in the lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 9., Ruralia commoda in French translation (Rustican des ruraulx prouffiz du labour des champs)

lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 9. Contains the Commoda Ruralia of Petrus de Crescentiis, in twelve books, in a

• Miniature of the author discussing with two men, with two figures of Winds, with a full border containing the royal arms of England on a banner held by an angel and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's IV colours of red and blue, with two shields with the same arms differenced, for the king's two sons, in the lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 12., Ruralia commoda in French translation (Rustican des ruraulx prouffiz du labour des champs)

lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 12. Contains the Commoda Ruralia of Petrus de Crescentiis, in twelve books, in a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

endyth a [part ] of þis book'. Fragment English ff. 25v-26v Three Workings of Man's Soul (IPMEP 5 ) 'A grete clerke richardof seynt victores'. Epistle on thought, thinking, and contemplation based on Richardof St. Victor's De Preparatione

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

forms of citation, of banns 'Regula quintonis'. Some ecclesiastical forms of citation, of banns ('Thomas Vrmestone capellanus parochie de Lyme', 'capellanus de Rothestorne', 20 Jan. 1473), or declaring causes of excommunication (in English, f. 2), of an indenture of apprenticeship

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

operacionoui quadrantis'. Latin f. 61v Charm based on the measurement of the length of the body of Jesus (IPMEP 733 ) 'Thys crosse xv tymes metyng ys þe length of owre lorde'. The prayer also contains a reference to saints