• null, Breviloquium de quatuor virtutibus antiquorum

lot 8090, bought by Combe for 2s.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail John of Wales (index Johannes Guallensis) England

• Decorated initial 'A'(pocalypsis) with John the Evangelist and his symbol the eagle, at the beginning of the Apocalypse., Bible with prologues

'A'(pocalypsis) with John the Evangelist and his symbol the eagle, at the beginning of the Apocalypse. 32 large and smaller decorated foliate initials, mostly with partial foliate borders, many including figures or animals, in colours and gold, at the beginning

• Decorated initial 'J'(ohannes), at the beginning of the prologue to John., Gospel Book

beginning of the prologue to John. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon examples of the practice of inserting records in sacred books. It was believed to be the

• Decorated initial 'In'(principio), at the beginning of John., Gospel Book

at the beginning of John. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon examples of the practice of inserting records in sacred books. It was believed to be the book

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnibus), at the beginning of the Historia Mongalorum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica (see notes for complete list)

to Richard, count of Poitou, beginning 'A [multis] requisitus et multociens', and the revised version of the dedication to King John of England (ff. 58v-106v);Philomela, the poem on the voices of birds and beasts ascribed to Ovid in the 16th-century

• Detail of a miniature of two episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin; on the left, a priest talks to a wolf near a roaring fire; on the right, the priest follows the wolf., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of three episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin: the priest of Ulster approached by the wolf; the priest led by the wolf; and brought to its female partner to administer the viaticum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of a bird perched on a building, and a man with the tame falcon of Kildare killing prey; miniature of a scribe writing the miraculous Gospels of Kildare, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Calendar page for February, with the dedication of the church of St. Lawrence, Ludlow (the largest parish church in Shropshire): about half-way down the page, written in red ink at 13 February, is 'Dedicacion de la eglise seint Laurence de Lodelawe'., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

in Latin with initials in red (ff. 204-212v). John Clerk, grocer and apothecary to Edward IV, warden of the London Company of Grocers in 1467 and 1475: inscribed 'Iste liber constat John Clerk grocero apocethario regis Edwarde quarti post conquestum'

• Coloured initials in the litany. Each column on this page has the saint's name to the left, followed by a space and an abbreviation of the word 'priez' (pray [for me]), with a hybrid creature in the lower right margin., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

in Latin with initials in red (ff. 204-212v). John Clerk, grocer and apothecary to Edward IV, warden of the London Company of Grocers in 1467 and 1475: inscribed 'Iste liber constat John Clerk grocero apocethario regis Edwarde quarti post conquestum'

• Ink drawings of a huntsman and his dog chasing a female ape: the ape carries one child on her back, and the other on her front, and a mermaid and a ship in the sea., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

in Latin with initials in red (ff. 204-212v). John Clerk, grocer and apothecary to Edward IV, warden of the London Company of Grocers in 1467 and 1475: inscribed 'Iste liber constat John Clerk grocero apocethario regis Edwarde quarti post conquestum'

• A miniature of three episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin: the priest of Ulster approached by the wolf; the priest led by the wolf; and brought to its female partner to administer the viaticum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Decorated initial 'I' with a partial bar border, and a rabbit on the extender., Scientific miscellany, including Kalendarium Petri, Tabule Gerlandi, Tabula Petri Daci de loco lune inueniendo..., Treatise on arithmetic, Tractatus de sp[h]era, Compotus, Tractatus quadrantis veteris, Tables of the sun's place in the ninth sphere and of the sun's declination, Tractatus quadrantis noui compositus, Composicio quadrantis, Tractatus de minuciis philosophicis (a treatise on fractions), Tractatus de turketo (treatise on the torquetum, an astronomical instrument), Tractatus chilindri (on the astronomical cylinder), Astrolabium Messehallach, Theorica planetarum, Tractatus de spera solida

d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 310.Charles

• Calendar page (January)., Scientific miscellany, including Kalendarium Petri, Tabule Gerlandi, Tabula Petri Daci de loco lune inueniendo..., Treatise on arithmetic, Tractatus de sp[h]era, Compotus, Tractatus quadrantis veteris, Tables of the sun's place in the ninth sphere and of the sun's declination, Tractatus quadrantis noui compositus, Composicio quadrantis, Tractatus de minuciis philosophicis (a treatise on fractions), Tractatus de turketo (treatise on the torquetum, an astronomical instrument), Tractatus chilindri (on the astronomical cylinder), Astrolabium Messehallach, Theorica planetarum, Tractatus de spera solida

d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 310.Charles

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnia)., Scientific miscellany, including Kalendarium Petri, Tabule Gerlandi, Tabula Petri Daci de loco lune inueniendo..., Treatise on arithmetic, Tractatus de sp[h]era, Compotus, Tractatus quadrantis veteris, Tables of the sun's place in the ninth sphere and of the sun's declination, Tractatus quadrantis noui compositus, Composicio quadrantis, Tractatus de minuciis philosophicis (a treatise on fractions), Tractatus de turketo (treatise on the torquetum, an astronomical instrument), Tractatus chilindri (on the astronomical cylinder), Astrolabium Messehallach, Theorica planetarum, Tractatus de spera solida

d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 310.Charles

• Detail of decorated initial 'O'(minia)., Scientific miscellany, including Kalendarium Petri, Tabule Gerlandi, Tabula Petri Daci de loco lune inueniendo..., Treatise on arithmetic, Tractatus de sp[h]era, Compotus, Tractatus quadrantis veteris, Tables of the sun's place in the ninth sphere and of the sun's declination, Tractatus quadrantis noui compositus, Composicio quadrantis, Tractatus de minuciis philosophicis (a treatise on fractions), Tractatus de turketo (treatise on the torquetum, an astronomical instrument), Tractatus chilindri (on the astronomical cylinder), Astrolabium Messehallach, Theorica planetarum, Tractatus de spera solida

d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 310.Charles