• Historiated initial 'O' of Romauld enthroned with a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits., Cutting from a Gradual

a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits. Italian cutting.The present initial is boxed with Add. 37472, ff. 1-2, 4-7. To see this initial in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• 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

• Illuminated headpiece with foliate decoration and initial at the beginning of John., Four Gospels and Hebrews 12:17-13:25, imperfect (see notes), adapted for liturgical use

and initial at the beginning of John. The volume of which this manuscript was originally a part also contained Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 4 (destroyed in 1944), which comprised Acts, Catholic and Pauline Epistles, and Hebrews 1:1-12:16. Pink silk endpapers

• Decorated puzzle initial 'Q'(uadam) of the first book of Gregory's Dialogues, with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, and and pen-flourished border., Dialogues, with alphabetical index

verso) and price ‘25 Gs' (f. 134). ? Price '3: 3: 0' inscribed in ink, f. 133v, lower left corner).? John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Gregory the 1st Dialogues, Compleat, Wrote about/ Anno

• 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

• Late xivth cent MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 33995 British Library, London 161 images.

copy the concluding passage, which in Roy. 17 C. viii. (f. 335 b) asks the reader to pray "for frcero John saule of Waldby" who made pis tale in latyn right," and also "for William saule of Nassyngton" Who "

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 34,193 British Library, London 230 images.

moral treatises, poems, etc., in Latin and English, viz.:— Paper and vellum; ff. 228. xvth cent. With book-plate of Rev. John Fuller Russell; and formerly belonging to Richard Heber (Sale, 1836, lot 821). The following names (17th-18th cent.) also are

• late XIVth cent. MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 22,283 British Library, London 186 images.

of the Godhead; in prose. Imperfect. f.163. 41 41. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, often, but erroneously, ascribed to John Alcock, Bishop of Ely; in prose. Imperfect at the beginning, f. 165. 42 42. "A good tretis that men