• Foliate initial 'M' (sixth row, centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Foliate initial 'A' (sixth row, right)., Cuttings from a choir book

red stave lines visible to sides of cuttings. 21 foliate initials in colours and gold. Cuttings from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the

• Diagram illustratng a treatise on free will, showing connections between various sorts of sin. In the lower portion of the diagram is a small rectangle with the word 'vicium' (meaning fault/blemish/flaw/vice) linked to four more similar rectangles, marked 'furtum', 'fraus', 'fallacia', and 'mendacium', words with similar meanings, all connected with fraud, trickery, deceit, treachery, etc., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Between the end of some prefatory treatises and the prologue to Leviticus is a rubric stating that this is 'The book of [the Cistercian abbey of] St. Mary, Buildwas, written in the year AD 1176' ('Liber Sancte Marie de Bildewas. Scriptus anno ab incarnatione domini Millesimo centesimo septuagesimo sexto') followed by a decorated initial 'E'., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Decorated initial 'V'(ocavit) at the beginning of Leviticus., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Decorated initials, and flyleaf., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Decorated initials., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Decorated initial., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

of the preface to John and John (ff. 59, 59v). Diagrams in brown ink (ff. 3v, 6v). Paraphs in brown with penwork decoration. Small paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short

• Tinted pen-drawing of the Crucifixion.

'William le Poher lord of Pirton' (see 'Parishes: Pirton', in ~The Victoria History of the County of Worcester~, ed. by John William Willis-Bund and H. Arthur Doubleday, 5 vols (London: A. Constable, 1901-1926), vol. 4 (1924), pp. 180-184; available at

• Historiated initial 'O' (intemerata) with John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a prayer to the Virgin and John the Evangelist., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

Historiated initial 'O' (intemerata) with John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a prayer to the Virgin and John the Evangelist. The Veronica image is the earliest in Western art, according to Lewis 1987 p. 127.This is the earliest richly

• Illuminated initial 'C'(upientes) at the beginning of the prologue., Sententiarum libri IV

by a purchase of John Gigur: inscribed, 'Hunc librum emit Gigurde executoribus magistri More', 15th century (f. 1v).Included in the list of manuscripts from Lincolnshire houses entitled 'de historiis antiquitatum ac divinitate tractancium', perhaps composed by John Longland, bishop of

• Foliate initial 'S' at the beginning of s space left for the word 'Samaritanus', at the beginning of book 4., Sententiarum libri IV

by a purchase of John Gigur: inscribed, 'Hunc librum emit Gigurde executoribus magistri More', 15th century (f. 1v).Included in the list of manuscripts from Lincolnshire houses entitled 'de historiis antiquitatum ac divinitate tractancium', perhaps composed by John Longland, bishop of

• Five decorated initial 'D's, with figurative borders and a bas-de-page scene of a castle flanked by grotesques., 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

• Table of contents, for the Decretals, with five decorated initial 'D's, with decorated borders, including mermaids and mermen., 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 the bottom border of the folio with a bas-de-page scene of a messenger delivering a letter to a man seated at a desk., 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 man attempting to invade a castle being killed by one of the defenders., 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

• Bas-de-page scene of two ships engaged in a battle., 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 man on stilts, another man, a woman and a bird., 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