• null, Consilia medica and other texts

1 large initial in red (corrected with brown) with red pen-flourishing (f. 4). 21 smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in red, at the beginning of the texts (ff. 7, 31v, 40, 43, 101, 156, 159v, 161,

• Initial 'A'(ristoteles) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Aristoteles's De generatione animalium., Consilia medica and other texts

Initial 'A'(ristoteles) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Aristoteles's De generatione animalium. 1 large initial in red (corrected with brown) with red pen-flourishing (f. 4). 21 smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in red, at the beginning

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of devils in stocks, while a queen and an angel look on., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

University of Paris (f. 4). John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St

• Inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Added tinted drawing

standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of

• Miniature of the battle of the Khan and the men of Mien., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

de Pordenone, Merveilles de la terre d'outremer, written in 1330 and translated by Jean de Vignay in 1331 (ff. 136v-148); John of Plano Carpini, Travels to the East in the abridgement of Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum Historiale 32, 2-66, in

• 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'.