• 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-

• 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

• Miniature of the genealogical table of descendants of Louis IX in the form of a fleur-de-lys, with portraits of kings in medallions, supported by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester with his arms and the arms of Anjou encircled by the Garter, and Richard, duke of York with his arms and an initial 'M' encircled by the Garter; the arms of France and of George encircled by the Garter, and a banner bearing the royal arms of England impaled with the arms of Anjou, wrapped with a scroll inscribed with a motto 'Dieu est mon droit', and supported by the royal device of an antelope with a crown and chain., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

king of Macedonia (b. 356 B. C., d. 323 B.C.), only child of king Philip and Queen Olympias, emperor of Greece and Persia;3 Carolingian Chansons de Geste (Songs of heroic deeds), epic poems : Simon de Pouille, Aspremont, and Fierabras

• Miniature of John Talbot identified by his white talbot dog, presenting the book to queen Margaret seated in a palace beside king Henry VI, and surrounded by the court, with the royal arms of England at the back of the throne, and banners of England, France, George, and Anjou at the top of the roof; with a full border containing the royal arms of England impaled with the arms of Anjou; the arms of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury with the arms of Beauchamp, earls of Warwick in pretence, for his wife, Margaret Beauchamp, surrounded by the Garter, a scroll inscribed with the verses reading 'Mon seul desir / Au Roy et vous / Et bien servir / Jusqu au mourir/ Ce sachent tous / Mon seul desir / Au Roy et vous', and a bunch of daisies, or 'marguerites', referring to Margaret of Anjou., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

king of Macedonia (b. 356 B. C., d. 323 B.C.), only child of king Philip and Queen Olympias, emperor of Greece and Persia;3 Carolingian Chansons de Geste (Songs of heroic deeds), epic poems : Simon de Pouille, Aspremont, and Fierabras

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Ritson, J. 1829. Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution , London: Printed for J. Johnson. Samuels,