• Miniature of Simon de Hesdin writing his book, in the upper register, and Simon de Hesdin in a hospitaller's habit giving his book to Charles V of France, in the lower register, with a full border containing the royal arms of England, and a foliate initial 'L'(a brevite), at the beginning of book 1., Facta et Dicta Memorabilia (Le livre de Valerius Maximus)

181, 211, 232, 261, 297). Initials in gold on rose and blue grounds with penwork decoration in white, those at the beginning of chapters with foliate extensions. Line-fillers in blue and rose with penwork decoration in white. Facta et Dicta

• Pen-flourished initial 'Q'(uoniam ut ait Gregorius super Ezechielem)., Summa de casibus conscientiae

the lower margin.f. [317] is a former pastedown. 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Catchwords in simple frames. Summa de casibus conscientiae Written in 1473:

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ec) and ivy-leaf borders incorporating a dragon, at the beginning of Bertrand de la Tour's Sermones Quadragesimales., Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

gold ground, and full borders with a dragon (f. 2). Small initials alternately red with blue flourishing, or blue with red flourishing. Paraphs in blue or red. Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents An erased inscription,

• Historiated initial 'C' of a doctor in red and blue coat with ermine collar and red hat lecturing in front of a sectioned corpse, with a spray border in colours and gold with foliate tendrils, small leaves, flowers and berries. Arbaleste's arms and motto 'Ingenium superat vires' in the lower margin., Commentary on the Canon Medicinae by Avicenna, Book III, Fen XVI-XVIII

large historiated initials in gold on blue or red ground with white tracery (ff. 1v, 128, 147v). Puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 37, 67, 84, 114v, 154v). Initials and paraphs in alternating blue and red. Sentence initials touched

• Historiated initial 'F' of a doctor in blue coat with ermine collar and red hat standing in front of a lectern and lecturing two pupils in a large hall, with a spray border in colours and gold with foliate tendrils, small leaves, flowers and berries., Commentary on the Canon Medicinae by Avicenna, Book III, Fen XIII-XV

3 large historiated initials in blue or red with white tracery (ff. 1v, 141, 250). Puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 52v, 83v, 96v, 108v, 167, 184, 209, 271v). Initials and paraphs in alternating blue and red. Sentence initials

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

þ . Body height c. 2mm. Red brackets for couplets throughout. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into the margins for c. 14 lines. Ff. 37v-39v: two-line blue paraph marks with c. five-line red pen flourishing, on f. 38v

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

right column in elaborate penwork in red and blue. The border forms a T-shape running at the top of the two columns with red and blue infill. Lombardic two-line capitals in blue with red penwork, red rubrics and marginalia and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Each part is marked in this way. Two-line blue lombardic capitals with red penwork flourishing. Red running titles. Occasional red or blue one-line initials. Occasional red paraphs. Text 2 - four-line blue initial with red serrated pattern on left side

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red; two-line blue initials at beginning of text; some letters coloured red within text. First letter of each line of verse tinted red with red brackets; two-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork; six-line initial, eg. f. 8r, blue with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

initials with feathering ending in filled oval lobes and pairs of leaves terminating in a cone-like elongated flower. Bound in blue morocco by Kalthoeber. Unfoliated. 64 folios. A note on the end flyleaves, 'NB. Mr. Whittaker, Bookseller, Wirksworth, being commissioned