• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

frere To preche and eek to begge it is no doute In which þer wente a lymytour aboute , A mersshy countre called holdernesse LOrdynges þer is in york schire , as I gesse Here begynneþ þe Somnours tale ,

• null, Château d'Amour, called 'The Myrour of Lewed Men' (translated into English)

(£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Flourished initials Robert Grosseteste York England, N. E.? (York)

• Illuminated initial 'S'(elon), with a full border including an added white rose of York and the closed fetterlock in the lower border., La cité des dames

pen-flourishing. La cité des dames Cecily [Cicely; née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband Richard of York, 3rd duke of York (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes

• null, Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York

15). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing including human heads. Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York Heading 'Liber ordinacionis Fraternitatis corporis Christi fundate in Ebor ... Incepte Anno domini millesimo cccc^o^ octavo' (f. 15).William Petty

• Full page miniatures of the fortified town of York., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. York Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) York England, N. (York ?)

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and partial foliate border., Breviary, Use of York, imperfect

Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and partial foliate border. Containing a York calendar (ff. 7-12v) including in red William of York (8 June) and his translation (6 Jan.), Wilfrid of York (12 Oct.). These saints also appear in the litany (ff. 76v-77).Catchwords