• 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)

• null, Letters, extracts, scholia

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail ff. 177-178v written by Demetrios Paoul Kavakes (see ~Repertorium~) Demetrios Raoul Kavakes Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others Italy Greece (Mistra) or Italy, Central (Rome)

• 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-

• Illuminated initial 'R'(egine) at the beginning of Ambrose's De fide, decorated with acanthus leaves., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uisnam) at the beginning of the prologue to book five of Ambrose's De fide, with pen-flourishing., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• 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

• Headpiece with geometric forms, people and birds, display script in colours, and decorated initials., Letters, extracts, scholia

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Headpiece ff. 177-178v written by Demetrios Paoul Kavakes (see ~Repertorium~) Demetrios Raoul Kavakes Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others Italy Greece (Mistra) or Italy, Central (Rome)

• null, The four Gospels, adapted for liturgical use (index New Testament, Bible)

possibly acquired together with Burney 105, another Saibante manuscript.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Theodoros Hagiopetrites Theodoros Hagiopetrites Eastern Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean, Greece (Thessalonica, monastery of Philokalos)

• 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

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

included in the catalogue of Henry of Eastry (beginning of the 14th century), no. 246 (see M. R. James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903, p. 45).Added note in English, 'elde me is bestolen on

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

included in the catalogue of Henry of Eastry (beginning of the 14th century), no. 246 (see M. R. James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903, p. 45).Added note in English, 'elde me is bestolen on

• Inhabited initial 'D'(ici) with lions and dragons, at the beginning of the Enchiridion of Augustine., Enchiridion

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,

• 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,

• Coloured initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of Pseudo-Ambrose's De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum., De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum, Excerpta from Augustine and Ambrose

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,

• Coloured initial 'M'(ulti) at the beginning of John Chrysostom's De muliere Chananaea., 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,

• Initial 'R' with decoration and outline drawing of a flower., 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):

• Text page with initial and rubric., 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):