• Unexecuted drawing, with captions for the three mighty men bringing water to David., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Drawing of David with a lion and bear., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Drawing of the Return of the Prodigal Son., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Detail of a drawing of Jews with the Pascal lamb., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Detail of a drawing of the Flagellation., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Drawing of Lamech and his wives., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Detail of a drawing of the Resurrection, with angels., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Detail of a drawing of the finding of the lost pieces of silver., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Drawing of a marriage., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Detail of a drawing of the Coronation of the Virgin., Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters

details. Large initials in blue. Small initials in brown. Speculum humanae salvationis, with tabula, prohemium, and 45 chapters 15th-century inscription 'John west of new (?) Beryy' [in Berkshire?] (f. 1).15th-16th century inscription of a marriage bann (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane

• Marginal drawing of a surgical procedure., Fistula in ano (ff. 1-180), and other texts, including part of the Liber medicalium

folio. Anol. 1637' (f. 181v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Surgical procedure John Arderne England

• Marginal drawing of a surgical procedure., Fistula in ano (ff. 1-180), and other texts, including part of the Liber medicalium

folio. Anol. 1637' (f. 181v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Surgical procedure John Arderne England

• Detail of a diagram., Fistula in ano (ff. 1-180), and other texts, including part of the Liber medicalium

4 folio. Anol. 1637' (f. 181v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Diagram John Arderne England

• Text page with coloured initials and a partial bar border., The Regement of Princes, with other poems

century (f. 3),Signatures including: Blount (ff. 1v, 2), and Humfrey Blount (f. 3), John Myll (ff. 2, 3), Acton (f. 2), Folyet (f. 2), Stoughton (f. 2), John Womgey (f. 2), Roland Schakyrley (f. 3), 16th century.John Lumley, 1st baron

• Initial 'C'(onditor) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of hymnal., Martyrology of Usuardus

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6478.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer's manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 255.Charles

• Foliate initial 'D'(omine) with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 89., Commentary on the Psalms

with human heads. Commentary on the Psalms John Russell, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a prebendary of Peterborough Cathedral, author of the ~Proposals for Printing the Holy Bible~, (1721): his initials, 'J[ohn] R[ussell]' and note numbering the manuscript as

• Text page with inscriptions., De corpore et sanguine Domini

fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: inscribed 'Liber Henrici Iacksoni Oxoniensis, Collegii Corporis Christi, mdc. Maii xxi liberati' (f. 145). John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer

• Miniature of John the Baptist, and hybrid creature in the margin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

of John the Baptist, and hybrid creature in the margin. 9 full-page miniatures, followed by large historiated initials, with full foliate borders including birds and hybrid figures, in colours and gold (ff. 50v, 60v, 76v, 82v, 86v, 90v, 94v, 98v,

• Miniature of John with his Evangelist symbol, the eagle., Book of Hours

of John with his Evangelist symbol, the eagle. 3 diptychs of full-page miniatures with foliate borders, in colours and gold, inserted as a separate quire after the calendar (ff. 18v-21). 37 full-page miniatures in semi-grisaille against coloured backgrounds, with large

• Decorated initial 'A'(luredus) with pen-flourishing added by a later hand at the beginning of book 6 of the Polychronicon., Various texts including Dialogus inter Militem et Clericum; Polychronicon (ending with 1357), the Pseudo-Methodius, The Beginning and the End of the World (ff. 21v-23v)

hand at the beginning of book 6 of the Polychronicon. John Trevisa (b. c.1342, d. in or before 1402) completed his translation of the Polychronicon in April 1387. Contains a few diagrams (e.g., f. 128v). Catchwords. Large puzzle initials in