• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man attacking a butterfly with a sword., 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 a man playing a fife and drum, with a man on his shoulder, while below, a bad baker is being dragged on a horse-drawn hurdle with his deficient loaf of brea around his neck., 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 grotesque figure., 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 playing a fife and drum, with a man on his shoulder, while below, a bad baker is being dragged on a horse-drawn hurdle with his deficient loaf of brea around his neck., 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

• Decorated initial 'F'(rater) and display capitals at the beginning of the general prologue., Old Testament with prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah

prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah Unidentified contemporary readers: with numerous marginal annotations, often in red ink, especially in vol. II.? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1102,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) and display script at the beginning of Genesis., Old Testament with prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah

prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah Unidentified contemporary readers: with numerous marginal annotations, often in red ink, especially in vol. II.? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1102,

• Illuminated miniature of a bearded John seated before a lectern; his name inscribed above him., Four Gospels (ff. 6v-288v), adapted for liturgical use, each preceded by a table of capitula

of a bearded John seated before a lectern; his name inscribed above him. 4 miniatures (evangelist portraits: ff, 6v, 90v, 142v, 226v), before each Gospel. Four foliate headpieces (ff. 7, 91, 143, 227), titles in gold, and large initials in

• Flyleaf with extract from Isidore and list of books borrowed by John de Haliwell from Ramsey Abbey., Sententiae (f. 3); Speculum Gregorii (f. 45); Abbreuiatio Moralium Gregorii Magni in Iob (f. 116)

and list of books borrowed by John de Haliwell from Ramsey Abbey. St. Gregory the Great's 'Moralia In Job' was a hugely important medieval text, but is also extremely long: it was typically bound in three or more large volumes.

• Decorated initial 'A'(bsolucio) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs at the beginning of the alphabetical index., 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise

on f. 190). Capitals marked in yellow. Coloured initials and paraphs in red or blue. 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise John Blacman (index Joannes Blakman) (b. 1408, d. ?1485), biographer of Henry VI, fellow of Merton College Oxford c. 1437-1443,

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Initial 'C' with a dog-headed hybrid., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a bird biting a dog., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'A'(nglia), with a hooded hybrid creature, at the beginning of a description of England., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• End of the annals from the birth of Christ to 1294, with an entry for the birth of King Edward II for 1284., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature with a human face, at the beginning of a chronicle of the Saxons to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with a hybrid creature, and 'B'(ritannia) with hybrid creatures biting, at the beginning of the prologue to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, with the signature of William Herbert in the upper margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Historiated initial 'A'(pres) of the Emperor John enthroned, with a courtier and a messenger, who points to the lower part of the initial that extends into the margin, where John's knights are assaulting two men., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

of the Emperor John enthroned, with a courtier and a messenger, who points to the lower part of the initial that extends into the margin, where John's knights are assaulting two men. 25 historiated initials, with zoomorphic extensions into the

• Historiated puzzle initial 'D'(ominus) of a figure blessing, in a list of Benedictine houses, with the names of Ely (Eliens), London (Londonicus), Norwich, Stratford, and Thetford visible, and annals from the birth of Christ to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; ff. iii-vi are notes on paper; ff. vii-viii are pages from the preface by John Romilly to a printed edition describing the manuscript; f. 200 is a lined parchment leaf, ff. 202-204 are parchment

• Detail from the roll: a man on stilts playing a pipe with an animal-head., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with a roll