• Detail of decorated initial 'U'., Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany, including the Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 100-108v; 109-34), the Mirror of Light (ff. 155-168); Cistercian statuta and ordinationes (ff. 200-220); De sphaera (ff. 59-75); algorismus with commentary (ff. 26-43)

(ff. 26-43) The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Buckfast, Devon: see Ker 1964.Inscription with the name John Fox (f. 34v)Inscriptions: 'John Sgacton (?), 'John Shabeton' (?) (ff. 1, 221).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial foliate borders,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

of an historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial foliate borders,

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

initial 'D'(ominica) of a portrait of a man, perhaps John the Evangelist, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of a reading for Rogation Sunday, with the text of John 16:23. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial

• Bas-de-page scene of a mounted king hunting a fleeing stag; he raises a horn to his lips., 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 mounted king, hawking, coming upon two stags feeding., 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 mounted king, hawking, coming upon two stags feeding., 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 mounted king, shooting at a stag with a bow and arrow., 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 king with a hunting horn standing beside a lady; to their right a man bears a stag's head on a pole., 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 king with a hunting horn standing beside a lady; to their right a man bears a stag's head on a pole., 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 an historiated initial 'V'(alde) of John writing on a scroll ('S. Iohannes') with an eagle, his symbol, at his feet, with a partial bar border including a grotesque hybrid, at the reading for 27 December., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

historiated initial 'V'(alde) of John writing on a scroll ('S. Iohannes') with an eagle, his symbol, at his feet, with a partial bar border including a grotesque hybrid, at the reading for 27 December. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D' of John the Baptist, holding the Agnus Dei., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

historiated initial 'D' of John the Baptist, holding the Agnus Dei. 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 16v, 20v, 23v, 25v, 27v, 40, 87, 109, 121, 125v, 128, 130, 131, 136,

• Historiated initial 'V'(alde) of John writing on a scroll ('S. Iohannes') with an eagle, his symbol, at his feet, with a partial bar border including a grotesque hybrid and dragon extender, at the reading for 27 December., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

'V'(alde) of John writing on a scroll ('S. Iohannes') with an eagle, his symbol, at his feet, with a partial bar border including a grotesque hybrid and dragon extender, at the reading for 27 December. 46 large historiated initials, with

• Drawing of the Crucifixion, with the thieves, Mary pierced by a sword, and John., Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect

thieves, Mary pierced by a sword, and John. Numerous drawings in ink, with captions and sometimes details in red or a red wash, identified by Scott as by three artists: 'A' of 100 miniatures, of c. 1330-1340 (ff. 1-33v, 35-38v,

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum. Includes the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (ff. 1-100v) and a series of extracts from Ecclesiasticus and Isidore, Sententiae, under the title 'Hic pauca incipiunt

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum. Includes the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (ff. 1-100v) and a series of extracts from Ecclesiasticus and Isidore, Sententiae, under the title 'Hic pauca incipiunt

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

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

• Illuminated headpiece decorated with a foliate pattern on a gold ground, (the right hand portion replaced with a similar pattern in red) and illuminated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John, with a marginal inscription in Ottoman Turkish., Gospel Lectionary for the liturgical year starting from the lesson for Easter Sunday

with a similar pattern in red) and illuminated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John, with a marginal inscription in Ottoman Turkish. Marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish (ff. 1, 49, 149). Headpiece with vine scroll decoration in

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

with interlace patterns within full-page rectangular frames of gold and red or colours at the beginning of Gospels, that for John on a purple background (ff. 15, 57, 86, 132). Initials and text entirely in gold. Numbers in red. Gospels,

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials