• Detail of a miniature of a monk and two laymen with a monastic habit, illustrating the case of two novices, one of whom becomes a monk, while the other returns to the world, with a foliate initial 'D'(uo), at the beginning of causa 20., Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria

of major text and gloss divisions. Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in blue. Running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue. Display script with cadels and first letters of sentences highlighted

• Gothic text on the verso of initial from Ps. 109: 2-4, reading: 'Virgam virtutis tue e / mittet d(omi)n(u)s ex Syo(n): do / minare i(n) medio inimi / corum tuorum. / Tecum pri(n)cipium i[n] die / virtutis tue in splen / dorib(u)s s(ancto)rum ex utero / an(te) luciferu(m) genui te. / Iuravit d(omi)n(u)s et non / penitebit eum tu es sa'. Affixed nineteenth-century inscription reading: 'Magnificent sheet from a Missal bought at Palermo in 1803. Painted by Peter Peruginei the book contained two large paintings and eight smaller ones which with much regret cut from the binding in consequence of the fear of losing the book - it having been taken from the convent of St. Jerome. It is to be regretted that we possess but very incomplete accounts of the artists of the 13th and fourteenth centuries to whom we are indebted for the labours and often splendid performances which decorate the choral books and other illuminated manuscripts written in Italy during these periods. Sometimes it is true these illuminations were the work of monks who could do little more than evince their devotion to the saints by their prodigial use of gold and rich colours, still it is certain that the cloisters often produced Artists of great ability, and besides Italy as at all times produced professional illumanists and miniature painters of an Superior Order, this book could it have remained perfect by the Chevalier de Bronti - at 1000 Florins - and he remarked that whatever now remains to us of those performances merit our highest veneration as the monuments of a LOST ART - W.Y.O'., Cutting from a Missal

choir of angels, medallions inhabited with saints, and ‘drôlerie’ of a Franciscan monk, dressed in the Order’s original grey hooded habit, climbing amongst the foliage. On the reverse text: 'Virgam virtutis tue e / mittet d(omi)n(u)s ex Syo(n): do /

• Puzzle initial 'A', at the beginning of Guilelmus Britonis's Vocabularius biblicus., Vocabularius biblicus

red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, and decorated extension in red and blue (f. 1). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue. Vocabularius biblicus

• Decorated initials., Medical miscellany, including receipts (ff. 11-24v); the 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' (ff. 25-64v); a calendar (ff. 92-97v)

red and blue penwork decoration (f. 25). 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red and blue penwork decoration (f. 66). Initials in red with blue or brown penwork decoration, or in blue with red and/or blue penwork

• Puzzle initial., Martyrologium, etc.

and smaller puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red. Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue. Martyrologium, etc. ff. 1-2 and 147-148

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red or blue with pen-flourishing in blue or red, some with green infill. Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or penwork decoration or in blue with red pen-flourishing or penwork decoration. Line-fillers decorated in red and blue. Medical treatises

• Decorated initial 'O' (heer) at the beginning of a prayer, with a penwork border of acanthus scrolls in red and blue winding around aubergines., Prayer Book

blue penwork decoration incorporating aubergine motifs, either full (ff. 1, 57), or three-sided (ff. 17, 29, 37). Large blue initials with green and red foliate or geometric penwork decoration, some with red and/or blue pen-flourishing. Simple alternating red or

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puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in blue and red, and partial decorated extensions in red and blue (ff. 3, 14v, 27v). Small initials in red with blue foliate pen-flourishing or in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing.

• Decorated initial 'C'(e) and marginal image of a king., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book)

and blue penwork decoration (f. 2). Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and sometimes also blue penwork decoration, sometimes extending into the margin. Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal

• Detail of puzzle initial., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book)

and blue penwork decoration (f. 2). Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and sometimes also blue penwork decoration, sometimes extending into the margin. Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal

• Detail of initial and marginal drawing., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book)

and blue penwork decoration (f. 2). Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and sometimes also blue penwork decoration, sometimes extending into the margin. Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal

• Illuminated initial 'P'(hylaretus) at the beginning of a treatise on the pulse., Medical miscellany, including a treatise on the pulse; De coitu (ff. 35v-37v)

in gold on blue and red grounds with gold balls, extending into a partial border (f. 4). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration, or in red with blue penwork decoration. Small initials in red, blue, or brown. Paraphs

• Detail of illuminated initial., Law treatise called Britton

and blue ground (f. 3). 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, some incorporating zoomorphic figures, with decorated extensions in red and blue (ff. 36v, 39v, 74, 123). Smaller initials in blue with

• Detail of decorated initial., Law treatise called Britton

and blue ground (f. 3). 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, some incorporating zoomorphic figures, with decorated extensions in red and blue (ff. 36v, 39v, 74, 123). Smaller initials in blue with

• Puzzle initial 'E'(dwardus) at the beginning of the Statuta vetera., Various legal texts including Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), and Glanvill (ff. 5-6)

and blue with red and blue penwork decoration extending into the margin (ff. 19, 51, 87v, 88v). Small initials in red with blue and red penwork decoration, or in blue with red and/or blue penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue or

• null, Various legal texts including Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), and Glanvill (ff. 5-6)

and blue with red and blue penwork decoration extending into the margin (ff. 19, 51, 87v, 88v). Small initials in red with blue and red penwork decoration, or in blue with red and/or blue penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue or

• Puzzle initial 'P'(or) in Aldobrandino of Siena Régime du corps., Le Régime du corps, imperfect

corps. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 58). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and in red with blue pen-flourishing. Small simple initials in blue. Paraphs in red. Highlighting of letters in red.

• Puzzle initial 'D'(icco), at the beginning of book 6 of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum., De proprietatibus rerum, with an index in a later hand (ff. 388-392)

Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum. Large and smaller puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red. Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. De proprietatibus rerum, with an index in a

• Calendar page for December, and flourished initial 'D' in an astronomical treatise., Astronomical treatises (begins imperfectly)

in an astronomical treatise. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 28). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Spaces for initials (ff. 42v, 46v). Diagrams.

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam)., Medical miscellany

the illuminated parts are described. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 119v). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Medical miscellany Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d.