• null, Glossed Gospel of Mark

1 large puzzle initial in red and blue, with red and blue foliate decoration (f. 1). 2 large initials in red or blue, with red and blue foliate decoration (ff. 2, 89v). Glossed Gospel of Mark ? Lichfield Cathedral,

• Verses concerning good and bad luck, with marginal drawings, including a pedler, money bag, and brazier., John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect

animals, birds, fish, ships and various figures. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect John Crophill, (d. c. 1485) medical practitioner and bailiff at Wix priory, Essex

• Marginal drawings of Moses and a pious woman born on the twelfth day of the moon, with verses concerning good and bad luck., John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect

animals, birds, fish, ships and various figures. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect John Crophill, (d. c. 1485) medical practitioner and bailiff at Wix priory, Essex

• Verses concerning good and bad luck, with marginal drawings, including a dagger and an arrow., John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect

animals, birds, fish, ships and various figures. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect John Crophill, (d. c. 1485) medical practitioner and bailiff at Wix priory, Essex

• Verses concerning good and bad luck, with marginal drawings of a plough, a basket of seeds, and a hunting dog., John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect

animals, birds, fish, ships and various figures. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect John Crophill, (d. c. 1485) medical practitioner and bailiff at Wix priory, Essex

• Verses concerning good and bad luck, with marginal drawings, including a fish and bellows., John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect

animals, birds, fish, ships and various figures. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. John Crophill's commonplace book with astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, and medical and alchemical treatises, imperfect John Crophill, (d. c. 1485) medical practitioner and bailiff at Wix priory, Essex

• Detail of a foliate initial 'D'(omino) with human heads, at the beginning of the preface., Commentary on Matthew

iii libri claudii p[re]sbiterii sup[er] Math[eum], 13th century (f. i).The Augustinian priory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, Llanthony: noted by John Leland c. 1533-36 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione

• Foliate initial 'D'(omino) with human heads, at the beginning of the preface, with the Westminster inventory number '207', in the upper corner., Commentary on Matthew

iii libri claudii p[re]sbiterii sup[er] Math[eum], 13th century (f. i).The Augustinian priory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, Llanthony: noted by John Leland c. 1533-36 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione

• Coloured initials in red, blue, and green, with foliate decoration., Fragment of a leaf from an early 13th century English Missal containing the Masses for St Chrysostom, St Catherin, St Saturninus, St Andrew (f. 81) St. John (f. 81v).

century English Missal containing the Masses for St Chrysostom, St Catherin, St Saturninus, St Andrew (f. 81) St. John (f. 81v). John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716), bookseller and antiquary: part of the Bagford fragments sold to Edward Harley after

• Foliate initial 'P'(ost) at the beginning of the text., Commentary on Matthew

iii libri claudii p[re]sbiterii sup[er] Math[eum], 13th century (f. i).The Augustinian priory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, Llanthony: noted by John Leland c. 1533-36 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione

• Decorated initial 'E'(t cum)., Commentary on Matthew

iii libri claudii p[re]sbiterii sup[er] Math[eum], 13th century (f. i).The Augustinian priory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, Llanthony: noted by John Leland c. 1533-36 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione

• Inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

initials in outline drawing, partially coloured, and display script in red and blue, at the beginning of Mathew, Luke, and John (ff. 9, 72, 114v). 2 historiated (ff. 6, 6v), 5 inhabited or zoomorphic (ff. 2v, 5, 44, 46, 70),

• Detail of an initial 'M'(atheus) of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, at the beginning of an 'argumentum' to Matthew., Gospels

initials in outline drawing, partially coloured, and display script in red and blue, at the beginning of Mathew, Luke, and John (ff. 9, 72, 114v). 2 historiated (ff. 6, 6v), 5 inhabited or zoomorphic (ff. 2v, 5, 44, 46, 70),

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'M', formed of two dragons., Gospels

initials in outline drawing, partially coloured, and display script in red and blue, at the beginning of Mathew, Luke, and John (ff. 9, 72, 114v). 2 historiated (ff. 6, 6v), 5 inhabited or zoomorphic (ff. 2v, 5, 44, 46, 70),

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hair-covered Mary of Egypt feeding a lion, a bear and a stag., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

University of Paris (f. 4). John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a blue-faced grotesque, hunched, with a man standing on his shoulders, from Book 1 of the Decretals., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

University of Paris (f. 4). John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St

• Text page., Commentary on Martianus Capella

to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944) and noted by John Leland (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione notis et indice ad editionem primam~,

• Text page with marginal notes., Commentary on Martianus Capella

to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944) and noted by John Leland (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione notis et indice ad editionem primam~,

• Decorated initial 'S'(pes) at the beginning of the Sermo de pastoribus of Augustine, with the list of contents (f. 1v)., Sermo de pastoribus, Sermo de ouibus, De baptismo contra Donatistas, De baptismo parvulorum, Epistola ad Marcellinum, De unico baptismo, De spiritu et littera

spiritu et littera The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Saviour, St Peter, and St Paul, Bath: noted by John Leland, (see John Leland ~Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis~, ed. by A. Hall (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1709), p. 160.Added glosses, 12th century (e.g.,

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uamvis) at the beginning of Augustine's De baptismo parvulorum., Sermo de pastoribus, Sermo de ouibus, De baptismo contra Donatistas, De baptismo parvulorum, Epistola ad Marcellinum, De unico baptismo, De spiritu et littera

spiritu et littera The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Saviour, St Peter, and St Paul, Bath: noted by John Leland, (see John Leland ~Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis~, ed. by A. Hall (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1709), p. 160.Added glosses, 12th century (e.g.,