• 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

• Historiated initial 'E' of Christ in Majesty, his robes covered with the words 'Rex Regum', surrounded by the busts of twelve saints including John the Baptist, Jerome, and a Bishop (lower miniature)., Cutting from a choir book

'Rex Regum', surrounded by the busts of twelve saints including John the Baptist, Jerome, and a bishop, with foliate extension of acanthus leaves and bezants. Cutting from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author:

• Miniature of a standing John Chrysostom., Leitourgikon (containing the texts needed by the celebrant at the Eucharist in the Orothodox church: Liturgies of John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, and the Presanctified)

a standing John Chrysostom. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold of standing saints (ff. 2v, 21v ). 3 large historiated headpieces in colours and gold (ff. 3, 22, 49). Large historiated initials in colours and gold (ff. 3, 6,

• Decorated Initial 'C'., Theological miscellany relating to the Great Schism and to the power of the pope and ecclesiastical councils, including Waleys's 'Communiloquium sive Summa collationum ad omne genus hominum' (ff. 1-127v), Trevet's 'De officio missae' (ff. 128-155), Pierre d'Ailly's 'Tractatus super reformatione ecclesiae' (ff. 167-173v), Fakenham's 'Determinatio de sedando schismate' and 'Conclusiones' (ff. 188-196, 196-196v), and texts relating to the Council of Basel of 1432 (ff. 156-166, 173, 175v)

manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial and border John Gobych John Gobych John Waleys (index John of Wales, John Wallensis, Johannes Vallensis), Nicholas Trevet (index Nicholaus Trevet), Pierre d'Ailly (index Petrus Aliacensis, Petrus

• Initial 'C'(um) on a gold ground, with a hybrid creature in the bowl of the letter and the ownership inscription of Fountains abbey in the upper margin., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Illuminated initial John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• 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