• Historiated initial 'D'(ixi) of David before God, pointing to his mouth, at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of David and a fool, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Detail of a historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David drowning in water, with God above, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Detail of a historiated initial 'E(xultate)' of David playing the bells, at the beginning of Psalm 80., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the litany includes Fara, Honorine (f. 175; translated to Conflans Ste. Honorine, near Pontoise, in 1250), and a special listing of widows (f. 175).Added prayer to the Virgin and John for

• Miniature of the author, Thomas Hoccleve, presenting the book to prince Henry, with a partial border containing the arms of William FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, and a foliate initial 'H'(ye)., 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

• Marginal miniature of Geoffrey Chaucer pointing the text, with a caption reading 'Chauceris ymago'., 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

• Illumianted initial ‘I'(n), with a partial bar border, and an added drawing of two interlaced gloves., 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

• Text page., 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

• Illuminated initial ‘M’ in colours and gold with a partial bar-border and the arms of William FitzAlan, earl of Arundel impaling those of his wife, Joan, daughter of Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury., 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

• Detail of a miniature of the author, Thomas Hoccleve, presenting the book to prince Henry., 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

• Detail of a marginal miniature of Geoffrey Chaucer pointing the text, with a caption reading 'Chauceris ymago'., 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

• Illuminated initial 'T'(o) with a partial bar and foliate 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

• Drawing of a white horse in the lower margin of the folio, with a badge bearing the motto 'My trust ys'., 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

• Detail of an added drawing of a white horse in the lower margin of the folio, with a badge bearing the motto 'My trust ys'., 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

• Miniature of the Annunciation in the upper register and of the Nativity in the lower register., Psalter and Canticles

December, f. 7v).John of Dalling, monk of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans: given by him with the permission of John of Hertford, abbot of St. Albans (1235-60), before 1260, inscribed, 'Hunc librum dedit Frater Johannes de Dal/ling ex licencia

• Initials with pen-flourishing., Various texts including Ashendon's Summa de accidentibus mundi (ff. 1-98v)

red and blue. John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: these three manuscripts were sold as a separate volumes to Edward Harley with the rest of Batteley's collection through his nephew John Batteley (of the

• detail of a woman physician treating a female patient, Medical treatise

(1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. detail of a woman physician treating a female patient John of 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

• Miniature composed of four compartments: 1. Boccaccio reading a book; 2. Boccaccio presenting the book to Andrea Acciaiuoli and a group of women; 3. A messenger presenting a letter to a lady; 4. A queen with four women playing musical instruments, with a full border, and a foliate initial 'I', at the beginning of the prologue., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury: Royal 15 E VI, a collection of romances presented to Margaret of Anjou in honour of her marriage to Henry VI in 1445; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book