• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Blandus', f. 127v; John lyenell : f. 1v - 'John lyenell'; John Russel : eighteenth century - f. 1v, 124v, 127v - 'John Russel'; John Pygyn eighteenth/nineteenth century - f. 1r, 1v, 2r, 127v - 'John pygyn'; John Legus :

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

by some branches of the Weeks family (Manly and Rickert. 1940. p. 57). F. 259v 'Per me Iohannem Wekes' ( John Wekes ) written in a late sixteenth-century hand. The same hand also wrote an English couplet and a prologue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a dead tree, appear on f. 1. John Dedwood is listed as Sheriff

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc: edited from Cotton MS. Claudius A. II , EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Peacock, E. ed. 1868. Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc , EETS, os, 31,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

23v, ' John Longley ' (?Langley Green, extreme W. Worcs). See also Seymour 1966 for more details, p. 192. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville

• Decorated initial 'P'(rincipia), and plain red initial 'P'(aulus); the upper margin with an ownership inscription of Sir John Prise., Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

that most of John Prise's religious manuscripts came from such houses.Sir John Prise (alias Sion ap Rhys, b. 1502 or 1503, d. 1555): 'John Prise: is Owner of this booke' (f. 2); cf. N. R. Ker, 'Sir John Prise', ~The

• Historiated initial 'F' of John the Baptist., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

'F' of John the Baptist. Italian cuttings.Add. 18161 is also attributed to the Master of the Donato Commission (see Minazzato).These leaves are bound together with other mounted cuttings as Add. 22310. To see these leaves in the Manuscripts Reading Room

• Coloured initial 'P'(aulus) and other plain red and green initials., Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

that most of John Prise's religious manuscripts came from such houses.Sir John Prise (alias Sion ap Rhys, b. 1502 or 1503, d. 1555): 'John Prise: is Owner of this booke' (f. 2); cf. N. R. Ker, 'Sir John Prise', ~The

• Diagrams, in John of Arderne's Medical treatises., Medical treatises, Fistula in Ano (ff. 96v-163v); Liber medicinarum (ff. 20v-96v)

in John of Arderne's Medical treatises. Scott 1996 p. 201 speculates that this manuscript was intended to travel as a physician's ~vade-mecum~. 4 full-page diagrams, in colours (ff. 108-109v). Numerous diagrams in the margins, in colours. Medical treatises, Fistula in

• null, Liturgy of John Chrysostom, imperfect

decorated in red ink; large and small red initials, many decorated with foliate or geometric patterns. Liturgy of John Chrysostom, imperfect ? John Jackson (d. 1794), antiquary: his sale, 28 April, 1784, lot 337, possibly bought by Chapman for 2s.Charles