The covers are lined with four half-leaves of a folio XVth century Missal in double columns, with parts of the Offices for St. Thomas of Canterbury and Sundays after Epiphany. At the end are bound in 7 smaller leaves of paper on which Kirkpatrick (?) has carefully facsimiled alphabets and abbreviations, and arranged the latter in alphabetical order.
Contents: The occasional offices to be used by a priest, according to Sarum use. The first page has a rather rough border in gold, red, and blue, and an initial of the same. Other like initials head the principal offices.
Bible: Genesis to Psalms. Wycliffe’s Translation. XVth century.
Vellum, 17 2/10 x 12 inches, ff. 208 + 1, double columns of 59 lines.
Original sides of brown leather have been laid down on modern binding; ornamented in blind with rectangular panel formed
by two roll stamps, enclosing another panel formed by the same stamps. Illuminated page at beginning of each book.
It belonged to Sir James Boleyn of Blickling Hall, who died in 1561, and was presented to the Library in 1692 by Richard Ireland.
Astrological Tractates. XVth century.
Paper, 5 3/4 x 4½ inches, ff. 120, 32 lines to a page. In three hands; clearly written.
Original binding, wrapper of skin lined with linen. Contains thirteen items: astrological treatises, tables, etc.