• Miniature of Mark writing, with his evangelist symbol, a winged lion, in front of him, with an illuminated initial 'I'(n) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

'I'(n) and a full foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v).

• Miniature of Matthew writing, with his Evangelist symbol, a winged man, holding the book upon which he writes, with an illuminated initial 'C'(um) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

'C'(um) and a full foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v).

• Text page with illuminated initials and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small decorated initials for

• Text page with illuminated initials and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small decorated initials for

• Detail of a miniature of the Visitation, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with

• Miniature of the Nativity, in which the newborn Christ is washed by two assistants in the foreground, with animals and angels looking upon from beyond the stable, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

'D'(eus) and a full foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v).

• Text page with iluminated initials and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small decorated initials for

• Miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border with three shepherds among the vines., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

three shepherds among the vines. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with

• Miniature of the Presentation in the Temple, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with

• Miniature of the Flight into Egypt, with an inhabited initial 'D'(eus) and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small

• Detail of a man scything., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small decorated initials for the Gospel

• Miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin, with an inhabited initial 'C'(onuerte) containing an angel and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

full foliate border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures

• Miniature of a naked corpse next to an open coffin, with figures and heraldic device in the border., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

the border. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with

• Miniature of the Pentecost, in which the Virgin Mary sits at the centre with the Holy Spirit above and surrounded by the twelve Apostles, with an inhabited initial 'D'(omine) and a full foliate border including arms., Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

a full foliate border including arms. Quaternion with the Gospel Lessons misbound, in the unusual order of Luke (ff. 15-16v), John (ff. 17-18v), Marc (ff. 19-20), and Matthew (ff. 21-22v). 24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3-14v).

• Illuminated initial 'S'(i) entwined with strapwork, square capitals in a four-colour sequence, and a trompe l'oeil page with its corners curling at the edges, surrounded by a full border with all'antica elements, a frieze, and griffins supporting a shield in a wreath; at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

also attributed Additional 16983 and Burney 292 to the same scribe (unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal. 1 full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 146v). 2 large historiated initials, in colours and gold (ff. 10v, 147), the first accompanied

• Detail of a nativity horoscope of Henry VI, 1421., Astronomical/astrological compendium, including a nativity horoscope for Henry VI (the 'Codex Holbrookensis')

brown initials with penwork decoration. Line-fillers in red. Astronomical/astrological compendium, including a nativity horoscope for Henry VI (the 'Codex Holbrookensis') John Holbroke [Holbrook] (d. 1437), mathematician and astronomer: perhaps written by him: inscription, after a contents list written by Roger

• Decorated initials 'T'(his) and 'S'(omtyme) with acanthus leaves combined with a partial bar border with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering, at the beginning of the text. Ownership inscription of William Lambarde in the upper right corner., The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)

Leaf signatures.f. 57 is a vellum strip with a chancery bill dated 22nd September, 1457, requesting letters of safeconduct for John Ponce and four of his servants.ff. 157v-[157b]v are ruled and blank. f. 159 is a former pastedown. 2 initials

• Historiated initial 'C'(antate) with singing clerics, and foliate borders recalling the 14th-century pattern, at the beginning of Psalm 97., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

same hand (1st 3 parchment flyleaves [ff. v-vii verso]). Thomas Thorpe, bookseller: his 1828 catalogue, lot 2902, priced at £25. John Wilkes the Elder (d. 1894): his sale 12 March 1847, lot 442, bought by Rodd. Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797,