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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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Puzzle initial 'N'(umquid) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of 'Ordinarium sive Alphabetum vitae religiosae'., Opera (index Works), imperfect at the end

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Puzzle initial 'I.M.' and other scribes I.M. John of Wales (index John of Waleys, Johannes Gualensis, Ioannes Gallensis) England

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

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

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?)

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?)

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