• Coloured initials with pen-flourished decoration and music staves., Fragments of a leaf from an early 14th century English Missal containing the Mass for the 5th and 6th Sunday after Pentecost

of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical purposes. 190 printed book fragments from the volume were transferred to the

• Detail of a drawing of an author portrait of Aldhelm., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus Added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ dated in 540, 16th century (f. 1). John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed

• Detail of a historiated initial 'Y'(maginum) of an altar with statues of the Crucifixion with Mary and John, with the instruction for the illuminator reading 'Fia[n]t ymagi[n]es sup[er] / altare', next to the initial., Omne Bonum (Jacob-Zacharias)

altar with statues of the Crucifixion with Mary and John, with the instruction for the illuminator reading 'Fia[n]t ymagi[n]es sup[er] / altare', next to the initial. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le

• Four miniatures: 1. the Crucifixion with Mary and John; 2. the Deposition; 3. the Entombment; 4. the Descent into Limbo., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

Crucifixion with Mary and John; 2. the Deposition; 3. the Entombment; 4. the Descent into Limbo. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound