16th-century panel-stamped calf bearing a panel with a design incorporating acorns on the front, and a panel with portraits of four saints on the rear (Catherine, Peter, Paul & Barbara). From Pius II's Cosmographia (Paris, 1509).

16th-century English English panel-stamped calf bearing the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon over wooden boards (see Oldham's "Blind panels of English binders", plate 15, HE 3 & 4), with the remains of book-clasps. From Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (1503).

Bequest of Francis Dee.

16th-century English blind-stamped calf bearing the only known examples of these panels, one depicting a Tudor Rose, the other Christ in an Image of Pity (see Oldham's Blind panels of English binders, plate 38, RO.11, and page 32, REL.13). From a Sarum Breviary (1499).

15th-century English (Oxford?) blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, bearing a selection of characteristic floral stamps which have given the name the "Floral Binder" to the man who bound it (for stamps see Oldham's Blind-stamped English bindings, plate 18, figs. 167, 172, 174 and 168?).

15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards with the author's name "Bartholomeus" as a title stamped in Gothic script in the top border of the front cover, and roll containing rose motif; impressions of 5 bosses on both covers (4 corners, 1 central), and book clasps. This style occured in Nuremberg at the end of 15th-century and continued into the 16th century.

Bound by the 'Scales' binder of London (G.D. Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge libraries pp.14-16.). From Duns Scotus' Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum (Venice, 1481). The second image shows a detail of a distinctive 'Scales' stamp.

It is not clear exactly who Joseph Jenoure might be, although several members of a family bearing this name and hailing from Bigods in Essex are to be found attending the University in the 17th and 18th centuries.

An edition of Cowper's poems (1788) bearing the inscription of John Heyrick on the title page, and with the wax seal of the Heyrick or Herrick family on the front pastedown. Heyrick's First flights was published in the year of his death.

Two of several inscriptions in a volume containing The way to the holy lande (1524), William Thomas' History of Italie (1549), and an English translation of the Gesta Romanorum (1510), all bearing the name of Myles Blomefylde.

This manuscript verse entitled 'An elogy upon the author in this 13th song' is found in a copy of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1622), a long topographical poem describing the counties of England. It is signed at the bottom with the initials J.B. and elsewhere the volume bears an inscription saying that it was given by Francis Wortley to John Bladen, so he appears to be the author of the verse.