Readers should welcome Alexandra Barratt's study of a sixteenth-century manuscript, a devotional handbook that was owned by a mother and daughter, both named Anne Bulkeley: the first was probably a gentlewoman belonging to the Poyntz family of Gloucestershire, whose husband Robert Bulkeley of Fordingbridge in Hampshire died in 1514; and the second (as Barratt demonstrates with impressive detective work) was a nun at Amesbury Priory. They compiled the manuscript (now BL, ms Harleian 494) with the help of clerical scribes, and it is heavily infused with the special devotions that were promoted by the Birgittine order at Syon Abbey. The manuscript dates from the 1530s, and it contains a rich array of prayers that invoked the Name of Jesus, and other devotions. It featured meditations for the mass. Some of the source material came from the great luminaries associated with Syon, including Richard Whytford and William Bonde. Among Barratt's most fascinating disclosures is the inclusion of writings on the Five Wounds by Maria van Oisterwijk of Brabant, a Beguine mystic who was not known previously to have had any great influence in England. The manuscript is a fascinating example of a textual community that was centred on Syon Abbey and its clientage. Barratt's text is accompanied by a valuable annotated transcription of ms Harleian 494. Something could have been said, perhaps, of the connections between the Poyntz family and William Tyndale, which means that Anne Bulkeley's manuscript could connect traditional devotions with fresh Christocentric trends through its focus on the Holy Name. A work as rich as this one deserves to have had an index.