• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

z-shaped ȝ used regularly. Body height: 2 mm. Illuminated by the scribe, John Lacy. Thirty-seven of forty-two miniatures survive. On f. 16v is a half-page miniature depicting John Lacy in his anchorhold watching the crucifixion (Hanna 2002, plate IV). Below

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Harley 1260, f. 166r. f. 69r-v Indulgence of Clement V for the gospel (curus evangelii) of St. John Latin ff. 69v-70r Indulgence of John XXII (1317) for the psalter of St. Mary. Latin ff. 70v-71r Memoriale for St. Mary 'De

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

239). A mid fifteenth-century (c. 1420-1426) collection of devotional and didactic texts with some in Latin, compiled by the author, John Audelay . ff. 1r-2r Instructions in Christian Living ( IMEV *39 ) 'In hel ne purgatore non oþer plase'.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

kyngys of coleyne primo die Januare anno domini millesimo ccccxlij'. English prose abridgement of the Historia SS. Trium Regum of John of Hildesheim, c. 1400. The text is collated and described in Horstmann 1886. ff. 216ra-255ra Titus and Vespasian (IMEV

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

; f. 68v (eighteenth century) - Nicholas Berbour ; f. 111v (nineteenth century) - Edward Burbecke , Jane Lawson , John Empson ; ff. 108r-109r - recipes in the hand of Nicholas Watson , surgeon to Sir William Hylton ,

• CP.F.338

undefined Participant: John Smith [Smyth] Role: witness Details: male; 70 Location: Thurnscoe (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Thurnscoe (Thurescogh) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Winch [Winke] Role: witness Details: male; 34 Location: Thurnscoe (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Thurnscoe (Thurnescogh) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Wodemlosse

• CP.F.167

Role: witness Details: male; 40 Location: Ormskirk (Lancashire) Place(s): Lathom St John (Lethome) : undefined Participant: WilliamCollin [Colyn] Role: witness Details: male; 45 Location: Ormskirk (Lancashire) Place(s): Lathom St John (Lethom) : undefined Participant: ThomasElswick [Elleswyke] Role: testator Details: female;

• CP.F.115

St Denys (Sanctus Dionisius) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: JohnMoor [More] Role: witness Details: male Location: York, St John (micklegate) (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St John (Micklegate) (Sanctus Johannes ad pontem Use) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: Joan wife of ThomasBrignall [Brignall] Role:

• CP.F.316

Role: promoting parties Details: male; clerk Employment: proctor Participant: RobertEasingwold [Esyngwald] Role: prosecution proctor Details: male; clerk Employment: proctor Notes: After John Stanton died, Easingwold took over the suit. Participant: WilliamDriffield [Dryffeld] Role: defence proctor Details: male; clerk Employment: proctor

• CP.F.52

[Bransby; Brandysby] Role: witness Details: male Employment: Butcher (bucher) Location: York (Ebor') : undefined Place(s): York, St John (micklegate) (Yorkshire) York, St John (Micklegate) (Sanctus Johannes ad finem pontis Use) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: StephenShutt [Shut] Role: witness Details: male

• Decorated initial 'H'(unc) with the John Beaver's initials, 'IB', in gold, at the start of the inscription, stating that Lord John Beaver, monk of St. Albans, had the manuscript made, and that with the permission of John Whethamstede, the abbot (1420-1440), he has given it to God, the Virgin Mary, and the church of St. Alban. This is followed by an anathema and a list of the contents., Liber de exemplis sacre scripture; Commentary on Wisdom; Commentary on Proverbs; Commentary on Ecclesiasticus

initial 'H'(unc) with the John Beaver's initials, 'IB', in gold, at the start of the inscription, stating that Lord John Beaver, monk of St. Albans, had the manuscript made, and that with the permission of John Whethamstede, the abbot (1420-1440),

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with Gervasius de Someren, his wife, and a knight of the Church of St John Baptist in prayer., Missal, Use of Utrecht?

de Someren of Utrecht, for the Church of St John Baptist, Utrecht, 1510, four Latin verses stating that Gervasius de Someren presented the manuscript in 1510 to the Church of St John Baptist: inscribed 'Annis verbgene quingentis mille peractis. Et

• Full-page miniatures of Sir John de Lisle, on the left, facing Sir John Beauchamp, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full-page miniatures of Sir John de Lisle, on the left, facing Sir John Beauchamp, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulta)., Commentary on Malachi and Homilies

and Homilies The Benedictine abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester: perhaps to be identified with a volume mentioned by John Leland, (see John Leland ~Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis~, ed. by A. Hall (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1709), p. 216, and ~Joannis Lelandi antiquarii

• 'Champ' initial 'M'(ichi) with foliate and spray decoration at the beginning of Pierre d'Ailly's 'Elucidarium'., A miscellany of historical and scientific texts, including Dudo's 'De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum', lacking first leaf (ff. 1-57v), William of Jumièges's 'Gesta Normannorum Ducum', redaction A, books 5-7, lacking the first two leaves (ff. 57v-69), Pierre d'Ailly's works, including 'De concordia astronomice veritatis et narrationis historice', imperfect (ff. 163v-181), 'Elucidarium astronomice concordie', imperfect (ff. 181v-203), and Norfolk's 'In artem progressionis' (ff.238v-241)

one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Illuminated initial. John Norfolk John Norfolk Dudo of St Quentin, William of Jumièges (index Gulielmus Gemeticensis), Pierre d'Ailly (index Petro de Alliaco), John Norfolk (index Johannes Norfolke) Oxford England, Central (Oxford)