• Miniature of various locations set out in a landscape: 'La Chastel en Chaire', 'Le jardin du baume,' 'La cite de Babiloine,' and 'Les Moulins de Babiloine'., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of Nectanebus receiving a letter; miniature of Nectanebus on a roof, in flight, having shaved his head., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Detail of a coat of arms with a mermaid holding a mirror., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

passage on f. 78 (see 'Provenance') announcing a text that is missing.Catchwords.Parchment was used for the outside bifolio of most quires (ff. 9-10, 19-20, 30, 39-40, 49-50, 59-60, 67-68, 75-76, 83, 94-95, 105-106, 117-118, 129-130, 141-142, 153-154, 166-167).The paper contains

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

passage on f. 78 (see 'Provenance') announcing a text that is missing.Catchwords.Parchment was used for the outside bifolio of most quires (ff. 9-10, 19-20, 30, 39-40, 49-50, 59-60, 67-68, 75-76, 83, 94-95, 105-106, 117-118, 129-130, 141-142, 153-154, 166-167).The paper contains

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

passage on f. 78 (see 'Provenance') announcing a text that is missing.Catchwords.Parchment was used for the outside bifolio of most quires (ff. 9-10, 19-20, 30, 39-40, 49-50, 59-60, 67-68, 75-76, 83, 94-95, 105-106, 117-118, 129-130, 141-142, 153-154, 166-167).The paper contains

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

'Of hem that writen ous The bokes duelle'. 'un amie soulain'. Macaulay 1899-1902; Macaulay 1957. Codex Paper 290 210 mm Quires of eights. Catchwords. Three leaves missing according to Brown. Single columns with 30-48 lines. Not ruled. Macaulay describes the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

damage - folio blackened. 'Of goddys eyrenes þenkyn owght'. Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 355-406. Codex Parchment 155 120 mm. Four quires: 1 12 , ff. 1r-12v; 2 12 , ff. 13r-24v; 3 12 , ff. 25r-35v; 4 10 , ff.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

i.e. small pricking marks along the outside edge of the margin roughly 5 mm apart in quire 3, 4. In quires 6-9 lines seem to have been ruled in lead or brown crayon/ink (e.g. ff. 347-348). Scribe 1 : ff.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

mitred and pasted on 5 mm thick oak boards with 10 mm bevelled edge, cushion bevel. Boards cut flush with quires. Original sewing. Six double thongs across the spine. Remains of two leather straps on fore edge attached by round

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

god withoute end'. Amen Explicit maundeuyle'. Codex Parchment 290 193 mm Note on the first flyleaf, 'The order of the quires, badly confused in the 18th century. Rebinding, was set right in 1929.' 1 8 (wants 1), catchword f. 7v;