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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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The upper pastedown, with a typical Bury press-mark, '.J. 7.' ('J' is for Jerome). To the right of this is an inscription headed 'A book of St. Edmund, in which are contained', followed by a note on the contents., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

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-

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

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