• In the lower margin is an added historiated initial 'D' of God in a cloud throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin. Volume I contains Genesis-Psalms; volume II contains Proverbs-Revelation.Originally written without a break after Psalms, as shown by the

• Historiated initial 'S'(alve) with the Tree of Jesse with the Virgin and Child at its apex. The body of the letter is decorated with reserved designs and pen-flourishing extending into the margins. The flourishing includes acorns, oak and ivy leaves, a bird and a hybrid creature with the head of a king, a reference to the subject depicted inside the letter., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany' ; beginning and end imperfect), part 2

of the Holy Cross, Waltham, Essex (founded 1177): inscribed 'Explicit liber q[ue] intitulatur liber niger qui fuit inventus cu[m] cruce magna de Waltham S[an]c]t]e Crucis' (f. 18v). This colophon indicates that this treatise was copied from the now lost 'Liber

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I'(nstrumentum) of a man giving a written document to a lawyer., Omne Bonum (Jacob-Zacharias)

1698?), no. 8275).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Instrumentum sive Carta (Written instrument, or charter) James le Palmer James le Palmer James le Palmer London England, S. E. (London)