• 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

• 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

• 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,

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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,

• 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

• 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,

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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)