• Initial 'C' with a dog-headed hybrid., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a bird biting a dog., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'A'(nglia), with a hooded hybrid creature, at the beginning of a description of England., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• End of the annals from the birth of Christ to 1294, with an entry for the birth of King Edward II for 1284., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature with a human face, at the beginning of a chronicle of the Saxons to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with a hybrid creature, and 'B'(ritannia) with hybrid creatures biting, at the beginning of the prologue to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, with the signature of William Herbert in the upper margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Historiated puzzle initial 'D'(ominus) of a figure blessing, in a list of Benedictine houses, with the names of Ely (Eliens), London (Londonicus), Norwich, Stratford, and Thetford visible, and annals from the birth of Christ to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Text page in Jeremiah., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'T'(he) with an animal head, at the beginning of Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Illuminated initial 'T'(he) and full border with foliate decoration and hybrid creature, at the beginning of Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Illuminated initials in Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Illuminated initial 'I'(n) and full border with hybrid creature at the beginning of Zechariah., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Detail of illuminated initial 'A'(ud) in 1 Maccabees., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

? (f. 2); perhaps that of Eleanor de Bohun (see Sandler 1986).Dr. John Hunter: inscribed 'This Ms. was once in the Collection of Doctor John Hunter' (f. 1v).Dr. John Fell (d. 1797); his sale, purchased by Clarke: see ~Facsimiles of

• Detail of illuminated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of John., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version: New Testament, with lessons (ff. 160-177)

617, f. 2); suggested by Sandler that it could have been that of Eleanor de Bohun.Dr. John Hunter: inscription in Egerton 617, f. 1v.Dr. John Fell: see record for Egerton 617.Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and

• Text page., Letters

Text page. Rubric and numbers in red (f. 1v-2v). Numbers in red. Rubrics in uncial. Letters The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vaast, Arras (?), France (according to Steigmann and Wemhoff 1999).Charter in a 10th-century hand whereby Megenhardus conveys land at

• Text page from Numbers, with a flourished initial 'Q'(uod) at the beginning of Numbers 21. A cut in the lower margin has been mended with a patch cut from a similar (or perhaps the same?) manuscript., Bible with prologues

characters alternately red or blue. Bible with prologues Unidentified English owner: with numerous annotations, second half of the 15th century.Inscription: 'John', 18th century? (f. 153).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(n) formed of two dragons with linked necks, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible with prologues

characters alternately red or blue. Bible with prologues Unidentified English owner: with numerous annotations, second half of the 15th century.Inscription: 'John', 18th century? (f. 153).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of

• Flourished initials and marginal drawing of a hand holding a fishing rod, line, and hook., De fide orthodoxa

by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Flourished initials, and a marginal drawing of a fishing rod John of Damascus (translated by Burgundio of Pisa) England, Central England, Central? (Oxford?)

• Illuminated miniature of the Crucifixion with Christ on a green cross flanked by Mary and John., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis, including a Martyrology

on a green cross flanked by Mary and John. 1 large miniature, in colours and gold (f. 166v). Large initials in red with blue (foliate) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (foliate) pen-flourishing. Line-fillers decorated in red and blue. Registrum

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with John the Evangelist, at the beginning of De Johannis evangelio., Liber de laudibus beatissime Virginis Marie (ff. 1-97) and De Johannis evangelio (ff. 97-111v)

'B'(eatus) with John the Evangelist, at the beginning of De Johannis evangelio. The authorship is uncertain. The manuscript ascribes the first text to Petrus Comestor. 2 large historiated initials, in colours and gold (ff. 3v, 98). 2 large decorated initials,