• null, Medical treatise

Book Collector and Cataloguer, 1682-1698', _British Library Journal_, 13 (1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. John of Arderne England

• Detail of drawings of surgical implements., Medical treatise

and Cataloguer, 1682-1698', _British Library Journal_, 13 (1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Surgical implements John of Arderne England

• null, Medical treatise

Book Collector and Cataloguer, 1682-1698', _British Library Journal_, 13 (1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. John of Arderne England

• Diagrams of the winds, with the four elements, and the four qualities., Medical treatises, Fistula in Ano (ff. 96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v)

96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Winds John Arderne England

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a plant., Medical treatises, Fistula in Ano (ff. 96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v)

96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plant John Arderne England

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a vessel., Medical treatises, Fistula in Ano (ff. 96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v)

96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Vessel John Arderne England

• Drawings of surgical instruments and anatomical drawings., Medical treatises, Fistula in Ano (ff. 96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v)

Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Surgical instruments John Arderne England

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

/ ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Flourished initial, Atalaya de las Cronicas por Alfonso Martinez de Toledo

abridgment of Spanish history made in 1443 by Alonso or Alfonso Martinez de Toledo, Archpriest of Talavera, and chaplain to John II of Castille (see de Gayangos 1875).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829

• Detail of a miniature in four segments: 1. Pierre Bersuire presenting the book to John II; 2. the wolf with Romulus and Remus; 3. John II enthroned; 4. Knights fighting, at the beginning of the prologue., Ab urbe condita (Les decades de Titus Livius)

Detail of a miniature in four segments: 1. Pierre Bersuire presenting the book to John II; 2. the wolf with Romulus and Remus; 3. John II enthroned; 4. Knights fighting, at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the 'Ab urbe

• Diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including John Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. 3-6), eclipse canon (f. 7), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1431 to 1462 (ff. 8-10)

almanac. A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003.

• Detail of diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1431 to 1462., Physician's folding almanac, including John Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. 3-6), eclipse canon (f. 7), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1431 to 1462 (ff. 8-10)

1462. A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003.

• Decorated initial 'I'(n ye) wit a full border, at the beginning of Genesis., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in the margins, sometimes with annotations (e.g., f. 265). 1 miniature of John writing his

• Detail of an pen-flourished initial 'I'(ou)., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in the margins, sometimes with annotations (e.g., f. 265). 1 miniature of John writing his

• Detail of the left-hand column of the folio with two pen-flourished initials., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in the margins, sometimes with annotations (e.g., f. 265). 1 miniature of John writing his

• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of Esther., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in the margins, sometimes with annotations (e.g., f. 265). 1 miniature of John writing his

• Foliate Initial 'T'(he book) with a full border, at the beginning of Matthew., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in the margins, sometimes with annotations (e.g., f. 265). 1 miniature of John writing his

• Historiated initial 'P'(rimo) of the Nativity with a partial foliate border., Breviary, use of Sarum, imperfect

of saints, including David Chad, Winifred and John of Beverley 15th century (ff. 288-290), with an early 15th century initial pasted down (f. 290).Inscribed 'By me Cornishe Simpsone', 16th century (f. 291).? John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of the Virgin and Child, with the donor, Thomas Besforde, in a Benedictine habit with a scroll reading 'In te confidit a[n]i[m]a / mea', in the margin.', Commentary on Wisdom

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7746).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Virgin and Thomas Besforde John Lutton John Lutton Reading England, S. E. (Reading?)

• Miniature of John the Baptist, with Agnus Dei., Added prayers to saints

of Anne of York.Part 2:Margaret Beauchamp (b. 1405/6, d. 1482), duchess of Somerset, daughter of John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, married to Sir Oliver St John,John Beaufort, and Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, probably made for her before 1443: