• Miniature of the death of Sweyn, the king of the Danes; miniature of a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

miniature of a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund

• Detail of a miniature of the installation of abbot Baldwin and the building of the abbey at Bury St. Edmond's., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

and the building of the abbey at Bury St. Edmond's. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and

• Detail of a miniature of the entombment of Edmund in the abbey at Bury St. Edmunds., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

Edmund in the abbey at Bury St. Edmunds. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin

• Detail of a miniature of Edmund praying, and the miraculous appearance of five springs., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

and the miraculous appearance of five springs. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin Fremund

• Miniature of the death of Sweyn, the king of the Danes, and on the right, a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

on the right, a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king

• Detail of miniature and illuminated initial., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• Detail of decorated and illuminated initials., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• On the left, large calligraphic initial 'L'(envoye) and illuminated initial 'T(his), and on the right, a miniature of the story of Cadmus, possibly retouched, and the illuminated initial 'B'., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Cadmus Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• Detail of a miniature of the story of Cadmus, possibly retouched, and the illuminated initial 'B'., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• Detail of a large calligraphic initial 'L'(envoye) and illuminated initial 'T(his)., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Initials Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnipotens) with pen-flourishing, and 15th-century ownership inscription added in the margin stating that the manuscript once belonged to the chapel of St Giles near Brompton-on-Swale, but now belongs to the chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle., Liturgical texts including Offices, masses, etc., with a York calendar (index Breviary)

chapel of St Giles near Brompton-on-Swale, but now belongs to the chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle. Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 89-136). Including a calendar (ff. 4-9v), the

• The upper pastedown, with a typical Bury press-mark, '.J. 7.' ('J' is for Jerome). To the right of this is an inscription headed 'A book of St. Edmund, in which are contained', followed by a note on the contents., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

note on the contents, beginning 'Liber sancti edmundi in quo continentur', c. 1375 (f. 1).? Possibly notes of 'the librarian', John of Boston 'Boston Buriensis', a monk of Bury St Edmunds (said to have fl. c. 1410) (ff. 1, 159);

• Miniature of Saturn devouring his children, Pharoah's men drowning in the Red Sea, the plague of heat during Cecrop's reign in Athens, and Procne serving the head of his son to Theseus, possibly retouched, with calligraphic initial 'T(he), and illuminated initialls 'O'(f) and 'T'(his)., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), fragment

collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Saturn Giovanni Boccaccio, translation by John Lydgate based on translation by Laurent de Premierfait England, S. (Bury St Edmunds?)

• 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