• Detail of a miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Puzzle initial ‘A’(u), at the beginning of part II., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial

• Colophon reading 'Ce livre est accompli et achive / le vendredi ixe jour de juil/let lan mil iiiic. xxviii. / deo gracias'., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Colophon Durandus

• Inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Added tinted drawing

text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 1 with, on one side a pen & brown ink wash faintly tinted in red, and on the verso, recipes in English. It

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Bowers, R. H. 1960. ‘ A Middle English Wheel of Fortune Poem ’ , English Studies , 41, 197-198. Dennison, L., Driver,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

woldust lorde'. English f. 9r-v Psalter of the Passion 'De psalterio passionis'. A sequence of Latin prayers with English instructions. English Latin f. 9r Instructions for prayer ( IMEV 3888 ) 'Wele is him þat wele can'. English f. 9r

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 71-73. McIntosh,