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

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, in

• Coloured pen drawing of the Emperor Charlemagne kneeling in front of a plant pierced by an arrow. The plant is called 'Carlina' and the caption explains that an angel advised Charlemagne to eat it in order to be purged of poison., Herbal with treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones (index Peutingerorum Liber Botanicus)

12, 22v, 32v, 33, 38v, 53v, 58, 73). Herbal with treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones (index Peutingerorum Liber Botanicus) Added texts on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones by Cadamosto, written

• Detail of a miniature of Agrippina, the wife of Germanicus, refusing food., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

Agrippina, the wife of Germanicus, refusing food. Illuminated by the Talbot Master, an artist active in Rouen, named after two manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of

• Painting of a couple standing at the spread Seder table, lifting the seder basket. Under the table, there is a big cat. Beneath the scene, two figures are preparing food for the Seder., Prayer book, Italian rite

Under the table, there is a big cat. Beneath the scene, two figures are preparing food for the Seder. 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a woman offering food to a man., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

scene of a woman offering food to a man. 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 corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated

• 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.

• Miniature of Dante and Virgil before Forise Donati, who explains the punishment due to the Gluttons, who see food they cannot reach., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

explains the punishment due to the Gluttons, who see food they cannot reach. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, in building during these years. 3 large

• 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,

• Miniatures of Quiritus Fabius Maximus bringing ransom money to Hannibal; Catilene distributing food to the poor., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia) (part 1, vol. 1)

ransom money to Hannibal; Catilene distributing food to the poor. The second part of this work is Harley 4375, bound in 3 vols. 1 full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 1). 8 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials

• Detail of a miniature of Dante and Virgil before Forise Donati, who explains the punishment due to the Gluttons, who see food they cannot reach., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

Donati, who explains the punishment due to the Gluttons, who see food they cannot reach. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, in building during these years.

• 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

• 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 miniature of the Khan dispensing food to his people., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

of the Khan dispensing food to his people. Includes 8 works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: Historia de proeliis translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre (ff.1-46); Jehan

• 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)

• 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