• Miniature of a standing John Chrysostom holding a book., Leitourgikon, including ordination services and prayers

71, 38v).Bought from Sotheby's on 16 February 1875 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). John Chrysostom Euthymius Greece, S. Greece, S. (Peloponnese)

• Miniature of a standing Basil the Great holding a book., Leitourgikon, including ordination services and prayers

(ff. 71, 38v).Bought from Sotheby's on 16 February 1875 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Basil Euthymius Greece, S. Greece, S. (Peloponnese)

• Miniature of a standing saint., Leitourgikon, including ordination services and prayers

(ff. 71, 38v).Bought from Sotheby's on 16 February 1875 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Saint Euthymius Greece, S. Greece, S. (Peloponnese)

• Coloured initials., Service book, fragment

the red preparation ground for the silver. Rubrics in silver showing its red ground. Service book, fragment A list of ancient Italian kings ending with Julius Caesar added by a 14th-century hand (f. 126).Marginal notes and ~maniculae~ added by 14th-

• Detail of a miniature of Priam sending Paris to Greece., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

of Priam sending Paris to Greece. Contains the Historia destructionis Troiae of Guido delle Colonne (c. 1287), in a French translation.The rubric of the prologue states that the translation was commissioned by a 'maire' of Beauvais for Charles V of

• Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Greece and the Aegean Sea. 'Links with Andrea Bianco's nautical atlas (1436) suggest a Venetian provenance for the manuscript and a date of between 1436 and 1450.... The codex constitutes one of the earliest examples of the synthesis of

• Decorated initial 'P'(lacete) at the beginning of the prologue to the History of Jerusalem of Foucher de Chartres., De muliere Chananaea, Miracula S. Letardi

Augustine's abbey of the end of 15th century, no. 358, with a shelfmark 'D. 4. G. 3' (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903, p. 223; and St Augustine's Abbey 2008).John Joscelyn, (b. 1529,

• Text with decorated initial 'A' at the beginning of the History of Jerusalem of Foucher de Chartres., History of Jerusalem

Augustine's abbey of the end of 15th century, no. 358, with a shelfmark 'D. 4. G. 3' (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903, p. 223; and St Augustine's Abbey 2008).John Joscelyn, (b. 1529,

• Text page with 9th century and 10th century scripts., Libri evangeliorum quattuor; Aenigmata; De arte metrica (extract)

late 15th-century library catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey, no.1438, with the shelfmark D.xi Gii (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) and Barker-Benfield 2008).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intial 'P'(luribus)., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial foliate borders with decorated initials 'A' and 'S', and a bird in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intials 'I' and 'C', and a hare in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Historiated initials 'D' (e) and 'P'(er), with faces., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial border with a decorated initial 'A'(ve) at a hymn to the Virgin Mary, and a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

margin. ff. 51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of

• Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises.

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the

• Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de

• Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel,

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from