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[Preces]
[ca. 1500-1520]
ff. iii, 214-218 are contemporary ruled vellum flyleaves. Decoration: 8 full-page borders in designs of flowers, birds and insects on decorated gold ground. 11-line (or smaller), initials throughout...
Calendar: January (fol. 1r)
[ca. 142-?]
The double-compartment miniature has Janus looking in both directions while dining, and the zodiacal sign of Aquarius (the water carrier). The scenes in the historiated border are: the stoning of St S...
Birds and flowers (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The gold-wash border is decorated with pinks, borage, strawberries, buttercups, forgetmenot, lungwort (?), periwinkle, beetles, birds, ladybirds and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial 'H' formed of ...
Buttercup seedpods (fol. 27r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with tall buttercups (with seedpods), a yellow daisy and curved acanthus leaves. 5-line foliate initial 'G'.
Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Francis Tallents
2 Dec 1696
Regarding selling copper plates upon which his tables were engraved to Mr Aunshaw Churchill, bookseller at the Black Swan in Pater Noster Row
Letter to Ralph Thoresby from John Milner, St John's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
31 Dec 1696
Regarding Cambridge Theatre designed, and Physic garden, Archbishop Sancroft's benefactions, new printing house, and Mr Wotton
Acanthus leaves and flowers (fol. 9r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
Curved acanthus leaves in various colours and pink daisy-like flowers decorate the lower border. 6-line foliate initial 'D' formed of acanthus leaves on a gold ground.