• 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,

• 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,

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• Two miniatures of the offices of angels. In the upper miniature, an angel brings food and a jug of wine to a kneeling Ezekiel; in the lower miniature, two angels carry the soul of a dead holy man to heaven as he lies upon his deathbed; a devil retreats on the right, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

In the upper miniature, an angel brings food and a jug of wine to a kneeling Ezekiel; in the lower miniature, two angels carry the soul of a dead holy man to heaven as he lies upon his deathbed; a

• Miniature of Christ distributing food during the miracle of the loaves and fishes; miniature of Christ giving the keys to the kingdom of God to Peter, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

Christ distributing food during the miracle of the loaves and fishes; miniature of Christ giving the keys to the kingdom of God to Peter, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. The text is originally a Provencal poem composed between

• Miniature of the imprisoned Margaret receiving food from a maid., Life of Margaret of Antioch in verse (index Vita di S. Margarita) (ff. 1-54); Latin prayer (ff. 55-56)

imprisoned Margaret receiving food from a maid. Horizontal catchwords. Miniatures in colours and gold of scenes from Margaret of Antioch's life and martyrdom: 2 full page (ff. 5, 31); 3 three-quarter page (ff. 26v, 29, 30); 12 half page (ff.

• 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

• Miniature of Agrippina, widow of Germanicus, refusing food., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

widow of Germanicus, refusing food. 106 miniatures in colours and gold with partial bar borders and large foliate initials in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 5 (in four panels with a full border), 7, 8v, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16v,

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

beclene And fatte his soule , and make his body leene We fare as seith the Appostel , cloth and food Suffiseth vs , though they be nat ful good The clennesse and the fastynge , of vs Freres Maketh

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

ye ben wex thral and foul and membres of the feend , hate of angelis sclaundre of holy chirche and food of the fals ser pent perpetuel matere of the fir of helle and yet moore foul and abhominable for