• Coloured drawings of a saint being brought food (?) by ravens and a person praying in bed., La Cronica General de España (tercera parte)

a saint being brought food (?) by ravens and a person praying in bed. 12 large coloured drawings (ff. 2v, 27, 31, 63, 137, 149, 189, 239, 301, 325, 326, 393). Large and small initials in plain red, some with

• Detail of a painting of a man sitting at the spread table lifting his cup and saying the blessing over food., Prayer book, Italian rite

spread table lifting his cup and saying the blessing over food. Captions of the drawings are perhaps in Judeo-Italian. Watermark of a ~fleur-de-lis~, f. [183], unidentified. Decorated initial-word panel with full floral border (f. 1). 3 drawings illustrating the text,

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man stealing food from a blind beggar's bowl, through a tube., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

scene of a man stealing food from a blind beggar's bowl, through a tube. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous

• Marginal micrographic design of foliate scroll and a bird standing on top of three square boxes pecking from the upper one illustrating the chief baker’s dream of Joseph's story saying, ‘I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head’ (Gen. 40:16-17)., Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onkelos (ff. 1-290), small pieces on the feasts (ff. 291-293v), Five Scrolls (ff. 294-313v) and ~Haftarot~ with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (ff. 314-358).

dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head’ (Gen. 40:16-17). Ruling and

• Marginal micrographic design of foliate scroll and a bird standing on top of three square boxes pecking from the upper one illustrating the chief baker’s dream of Joseph's story saying, ‘I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head’ (Gen. 40:16-17)., Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onkelos (ff. 1-290), small pieces on the feasts (ff. 291-293v), Five Scrolls (ff. 294-313v) and ~Haftarot~ with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (ff. 314-358).

dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head’ (Gen. 40:16-17). Ruling and

• Bas-de-page scene of Christ seated at a table, flanked by Apostles and Mary and being served food., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

flanked by Apostles and Mary and being served food. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic material, are closely connected to two important manuscripts thought to have been illuminated

• Miniature of an admiral in a passing ship giving Nascien some food; miniature of Nascien greeting his companions in a boat., Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, Morte Artu

a passing ship giving Nascien some food; miniature of Nascien greeting his companions in a boat. Includes: Estoire del Saint Graal, imperfect (ff. 1-88); La Queste del Saint Graal (ff. 89-139); abridged version of the Morte Artu, imperfect, attributed to

• Detail of a miniature of an admiral in a passing ship giving Nascien some food., Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, Morte Artu

in a passing ship giving Nascien some food. Includes: Estoire del Saint Graal, imperfect (ff. 1-88); La Queste del Saint Graal (ff. 89-139); abridged version of the Morte Artu, imperfect, attributed to Walter Map (ff. 140-161). This manuscript is connected

• Detail of a miniature of Habbakuk carrying food and a jug, and his hair being caught by a flying angel., Bible historiale complétée moyenne (the 'Bible Historiale of John the Good')

miniature of Habbakuk carrying food and a jug, and his hair being caught by a flying angel. Contains the Bible historiale, a French adaptation of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95), classified as the bible historiale

• Miniature of Isaac giving Jacob the blessing intended for Esau, in the upper register; miniature of Esau bringing food to Isaac, in the lower register., Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')

Esau, in the upper register; miniature of Esau bringing food to Isaac, in the lower register. Includes 150 Psalms (ff. 85-280) with a calendar of Sarum use (ff. 71v-83), canticles (ff. 280v-302) and litany (ff. 302v-318).Catchwords and quire signatures. 223

• Detail of a miniature of Esau bringing food to Isaac, in the lower register., Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')

miniature of Esau bringing food to Isaac, in the lower register. Includes 150 Psalms (ff. 85-280) with a calendar of Sarum use (ff. 71v-83), canticles (ff. 280v-302) and litany (ff. 302v-318).Catchwords and quire signatures. 223 prefatory miniatures in colours, in

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus), with Paul (in prison?) while a bishop (St Nicholas of Myra?) gives a bag of money or food to a beggar, at the beginning of Philemon. In the page layout typical of glossed manuscripts of the Bible, short excerpts from the Epistle to Philemon are written in large letters. The commentary is written to the side, top and bottom of it, in smaller letters. Underscored phrases in the commentary are from the text, and the discussions on them follow. In the upper margin of the page, the red inscription is an abbreviation of 'Ambrose', citing the author whose writing is excerpted in the gloss., Commentary on the Epistles, glossed

(St Nicholas of Myra?) gives a bag of money or food to a beggar, at the beginning of Philemon. In the page layout typical of glossed manuscripts of the Bible, short excerpts from the Epistle to Philemon are written in

• Text page with a bar border and an historiated initial 'L'(auda): Christ is offered food., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

an historiated initial 'L'(auda): Christ is offered food. The former 18th-century binding now kept separately as Egerton 3277B. 15 very large historiated initials with three-sides bar borders in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalms 38, 68, 97, 101,

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(ibus) of a banquet., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8275).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Cibus (Food) James le Palmer James le Palmer James le Palmer London England, S. E. (London)