• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt and monkeys among trees., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt with wild animals in a forest., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt holding loaves of bread, with a lion and a leopard at her feet., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt prostrate on the ground, approached by an angel., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt reaching up towards a bird in a tree; a lion and a unicorn are on either side of her., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt with a lion and a bear., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt with a boar, an antelope, a leopard and a lion approaching her., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt lying prostrate on the ground with birds above her., 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

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hairy Mary of Egypt lying prostrate on the ground while an angel plays a harp to her., 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

• Coloured initials with pen-flourished decoration., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical purposes. Drawings and printed book fragments from the volume were transferred to

• Historiated initial 'I' with the coat of arms of Bury St Edmunds (~azure~ three imperial crowns ~or~ two and one) and foliate feathering at the beginning of the first poem., Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect

112-157). Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect ? The Benedictine

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I' with the coat of arms of Bury St Edmunds (~azure~ three imperial crowns ~or~ two and one) and foliate feathering at the beginning of the first poem., Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect

112-157). Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect ? The Benedictine

• Paraphs with pen-flourishing including a bird., Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect

112-157). Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect ? The Benedictine

• 'Champ' initials with foliate feathering and paraph with pen-flourishing in the Fifteen Oes of St Bridget., Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect

112-157). Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect ? The Benedictine

• 'Champ' initial 'G'(rounde) with foliate feathering and paraphs with pen-flourishing., Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect

112-157). Collection of 45 minor poems including The Legend of Saint Austin at Compton (ff. 24-32), The Testament of Dan John Lydgate (ff. 47-66v), Fabula duorum mercatorum (ff. 72-88), and the Hood of Green (ff. 153v-156v), imperfect ? The Benedictine

• Decorated initial 'A'(lvredus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of book 6., Polychronicon (to the 25th year in the reign of Henry VI, i.e. 1445), including 2 extracts from the Latin Brut Chronicle of England (ff. 227-228v) (imperfect)

Includes a genealogy and chronological diagrams at the end including a diagram (ff. 235v-236) listing the archbishops of Canterbury to John Stafford (archbishop from 1443, d. 1452) and the popes to Pius II (elected 1458, d. 1464) (ff. 229v-236).Added index

• Illuminated initial 'H'(e) at the beginning of John Lydgate's Fall of Princes., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)

at the beginning of John Lydgate's Fall of Princes. f. 2r-v is an added a poem of moral and political advice; f. 3r-v is an added prayer, and f. 189v is an added a prophecy relating to the events of

• Illuminated initials and decorated verses in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)

decorated verses in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes. f. 2r-v is an added a poem of moral and political advice; f. 3r-v is an added prayer, and f. 189v is an added a prophecy relating to the events of the

• Facsimile of a decorated initial 'L'(iber) copied from St Gall MS 51., Collection of 42 facsimiles of manuscript pages copied by J. O. Westwood

Milan, Leyden, Utrecht, Stockholm, St. Gall, and Abbeville. Collection of 42 facsimiles of manuscript pages copied by J. O. Westwood John Obadiah Westwood (b 1805, d. 1893), entomologist and palaeographer: his signature after the list of the facsimiles dated November

• null, Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England, from Adam to Edward IV (the 'Considerans' chronicle)

red lines connecting them. Diagrams. Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England, from Adam to Edward IV (the 'Considerans' chronicle) John Sprotte: inscription 'Liber symfom dono me Johannie Sprotte de Gryndon rectoris' (f. 2v).? Shelfmark 'LLg 148' (f. 1).William Petty