• Blank folio., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Back end paper with British Library conservation details., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Red marbled inside back cover., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Front cover and spine., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Back cover of binding., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Flourished initial., Theological tracts

were purchased subsequently for £2 9s. 6d. (Egerton MSS 710-730). Small initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Theological tracts John Topham, 18th century: his armorial book-plate (inside upper cover).Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar:

• Decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Detail of an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam), with a display script, at the beginning of Luke., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam), with a display script, at the beginning of Luke., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Text page., Gospel Book

Matthew, Mark, and Luke (ff. 15, 15v, 55, 84). Smaller initials in ink with interlace decoration at the beginning of John, prologues, and other lists of capitula (ff. 1, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5, 8, 52, 128, 130v). Canon Tables with

• Detail of a historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with the coronation of a king by a bishop at the beginning of the Magna Carta., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), including the Magna Carta, etc., vol. 1, imperfect

Detail of a historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with the coronation of a king by a bishop at the beginning of the Magna Carta. 2 pieces of parchment (possibly with erased inscriptions) are bound after f. [iii], and 2 after f.

• Historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with the coronation of a king by a bishop at the beginning of the Magna Carta; arms of England, Lancaster and Beauchamp in the borders., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), including the Magna Carta, etc., vol. 1, imperfect

Historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with the coronation of a king by a bishop at the beginning of the Magna Carta; arms of England, Lancaster and Beauchamp in the borders. 2 pieces of parchment (possibly with erased inscriptions) are bound after

• Contents list in humanistic script., Polychronicon (to 1327); Expugnatio Hibernia; travel writings, historical and religious texts (see Notes below for detailed contents)

Contents list in humanistic script. Detailed contents:Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon (ff. 3-165);Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernia (ff. 166-194);Jacques de Vitry, Historia Orientalis (ff. 195-215);Odoricus de Pordenone, Itinerarium (ff. 216-224);Willelmus de Rubruk (index William de Rubruque), Itinerarium ad partes orientalis (ff.

• Miniature of a knight with a drawn sword and a shield, standing on the edge of two fountains. The knight's shield is inscribed: ‘Ex duabus aqui unam facite, qui quaeritis sole et luna facere et dare bibere inimico vino. Et videbitis cum mortuum. Deinde de aqua terra facite, et lapidem multiplicastis.’, Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal. 1 full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 146v). 2 large historiated initials, in colours and gold (ff. 10v, 147), the first accompanied

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the Old English gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink, and the ownership inscription of Sir Henry Spelman in the upper margin., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

date 'May 17 1638' and 'imprimatur' (f. 180v) for the 1640 edition of the Psalter made by his son, Sir John Spelman (b. 1594, d. 1643), royalist author.Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700,

• Bas-de-page scene of John baptising Christ, with a woman holding a cloak to the right., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

scene of John baptising Christ, with a woman holding a cloak to the right. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic material, are closely connected to two important manuscripts

• Miniature of Christ at table between a man and a woman, while Mary Magdalen, with a gold casket by her, kneels and washes Christ's feet. In the bas-de-page scene below, John the Baptist is led by a man before Herod and Herodias., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

a gold casket by her, kneels and washes Christ's feet. In the bas-de-page scene below, John the Baptist is led by a man before Herod and Herodias. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and