• Decorated initial 'A', at the beginning of the Tract against clerks., Tract against clerks (ends imperfectly)

in colours and gold (f. 4). Tract against clerks (ends imperfectly) Unidentified owner, 18th century: note attributing the tract to John Wycliffe (f. 1v). Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: catalogue 1836, no. 1359; bought by Phillipps.Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d.

• 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:

• Historiated initial 'U' of John the Baptist, measuring 85 x 80 mm (upper left)., Cuttings from liturgical manuscripts

'U' of John the Baptist, measuring 85 x 80 mm (upper left). Italian cuttings.The present cuttings are bound in an album with Add. 18196, ff. 2-44, 49-51, 56-60, and 65-90. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• 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 headpiece and initial 'P'(anti) in John Chrysostom's commentary In Ioannem., Homilies on John (index In Ioannem), imperfect

initial 'P'(anti) in John Chrysostom's commentary In Ioannem. 5 patterned headpieces in red and black (ff. 38, 74v, 78, 91v, 310). Numerous patterned or linear headpieces in red. Large initials in red with penwork decoration, a few also with black

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149). A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns. ff. 1r-33v John Mirk Instructions for Parish Priests (IMEV 961 ) 'God seythe hymselfe as wretyn

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

218, LP 6960 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 196). An early fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial . ff. 1r-32v John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'Ne dar þe noþyng drede'. 'grete peyne þu schalt childe bere

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

23v, ' John Longley ' (?Langley Green, extreme W. Worcs). See also Seymour 1966 for more details, p. 192. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ista anglie confinia ita quod fere omnes turbarentur in lectis'. Good. On f. 1r: ' John nycholas owethe this book' and again on f. 214v: 'John nycholas owethe this book 1576'. Other names on f. 214v: ' dominus thomas browne

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). A mid fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial . ff. 1r-164r John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'God maker of all þyng be at our begynnyng and ȝif