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Henry gave me a wonderful lecture yesterday. You gave us a brief glimpse of what you described as a cut and paste.

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So I'm going to talk a little about paste printing glue, I suppose,

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and Martin is going to reveal a little bit of printing in this wonderful manuscript.

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And there it is. This is the Bosnian prayer book.

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And what you can see is a maiden.

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With long flowing hair, wearing clothes of a lay woman and holding in her outstretched left hand foliage or floral sprig.

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The figure is actually printed on paper and comes from, we must assume, a single sheet or an early printed book as yet unidentified,

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and the figure has been cut out and glued onto the lower margin of this leaf.

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As you can see, the maiden is standing on a ground which is a green field with coloured flowers,

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and you will already have seen some images showing absolutely identical grounds.

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Elsewhere. The contexts would seem to suggest that the maiden was intended to be identified with the impassioned soul, the bride of God,

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and seems to be associated with a speech in a Latin Easter play in which the bride addresses the risen Christ as her bridegroom.

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This is one of three little printed figures in this prayer book,

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and they all seem to date from somewhere between about the middle of the 1490s and 1520.

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The maiden colours you can see has been coloured in in yellow, flesh, colour and red.

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And has a band row behind her. Martin I wonder whether we might move to the second set of images.

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Folio 217 recto. Now here we move from a maiden to two lions.

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They again are printed on paper, in black ink. They too, probably come from.

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A single sheet or a printed book, and once more we have not been able to identify the source.

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The lion on the left. Would be described in heraldic terms, I think, as being patterned to the sinister.

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That is to say, it's walking and it is.

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It has one paw raised. Three on the ground.

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Three and it's head is looking forward.

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And in this case, it is facing. Towards the right.

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The lion on the right. I will.

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Looks as though it just hasn't as well. However, I think.

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This might be a problem with the glue because I think actually he is supposed to be rampant.

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If one looks at his feet there, that is the classic pose of a rampant line.

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I suspect you may have imbibed too well of since Edmund Hall's hospitality last night and showing signs of keeling over this morning.

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The Lions, as you can see, are coloured in a sort of light yellow wash, and they too are on the ground of green with coloured flowers.

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The Lions are illustrating a prayer for the Sunday after Easter, and it has been suggested that they should be seen as symbols of the resurrection.

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The right hand line has always also been suggested that the right hand line is to be identified with

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the line in the Coat of Arms of Tillman above a published data mentioned yesterday and this morning,

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Provost of Madigan from 1478 to 1497, and that this may provide evidence that he had an association with the production of this manuscript.

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Perhaps just by way of a very brief conclusion.

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From the printed side, I tried to say a little about. The acquisition of this book by the Bodleian.

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We know sadly almost as little about that as we do about the the ident where these printed items came from.

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The book seems to have been acquired at a sale at Sotheby's in London in 1887.

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The sale catalogue is one of William Price, but when one looks inside, it offers only the first part of the catalogue and the lot five,

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three, five, which is this item was this item has that rather enigmatic.

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Titled The Property of a Gentleman. Be nice to know who the gentleman was.

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And the Bodleian paid £8 for each and I think very, very nice purchase.

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The auction catalogue seems to have been annotated specifically by the then bodiless librarian

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AWP Nicholson and it seems to me very clear that Nicholson was keen We should have this.

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Most recently, these printed items have been catalogued, as Henriques mentioned yesterday by Professor Palmer in the audience and Tuneable catalogue.

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And. Further information about them.

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Maybe sort their. And I think that probably Henrico concludes what I would like to say about these two of these three printed items,

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and we would be delighted to know if anybody else in the audience can throw further light on them.