• Medallion of Scorpio and the illuminated initial 'S'(corpio)., Fragment of an astrological treatise, including a text on the use of spheres (ff. 6v-7v)

unfoliated leaf and f. i are a late 16th-century paper codex in English. 3 medallions of Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 4v, 5v). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with sprays

• Decorated initial with a leaf pattern., Collection of alchemical secrets

or pen-flourishing. Large initials in brown with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Collection of alchemical secrets Later additions in English and Latin, and alchemical symbols (ff. 17v-20; 30-37; 50v-51v; 65-66, 72v-75v; 89v).John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers,

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi (at left of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Miniature of the Presentation in the Temple (at centre of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Miniature of Christ appearing to two disciples on the road to Emmaus (at right of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 42-50 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings

• Miniature of a bloodletting man., Physician's folding almanac, including Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. B-E, i.e. 9-6), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1398 to 1462 (ff. G-I, i.e. 4-2), and Grosseteste's 'De prognosticatione aeri', abridged (f. K, i.e. 1)

saints in the calendar correspond to those in calendars for the use of Sarum produced in Southern England.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man in colours (f. A,

• Miniature of Zodiac man., Physician's folding almanac, including Somer's 'Calendar' (ff. B-E, i.e. 9-6), diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses from 1398 to 1462 (ff. G-I, i.e. 4-2), and Grosseteste's 'De prognosticatione aeri', abridged (f. K, i.e. 1)

saints in the calendar correspond to those in calendars for the use of Sarum produced in Southern England.One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man in colours (f. A,

• Miniature of Raymond de Peñafort presenting the Decretales to Gregory IX, with an illuminated initial 'G'(regorius), at the beginning of Gregory IX letter to the university of Bologna., Decretales, with the glossa ordinaria

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Gregory IX Gregory IV, glossed by Bernard of Parma France, S.

• Table of eclipses of the sun., Astronomical Calendar

be identified with John Turke (d. c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Table of eclipses John Somer England

• Illuminated initial 'A'(d honorem) at the beginning of John Somer's preface., Astronomical Calendar

to be identified with John Turke (d. c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial John Somer England

• Coloured drawings, of Lot's wife, the Ark, and Egyptian soldiers being drowned in the Red Sea., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of a dragon, with seven heads in its tail. In Joachim's thought, the seven heads correspond to Herod, Nero, Constantinus, Mohometh, Melsemothus, Saladin, the Antichrist, with Gog, the last Antichrist., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawing of Adam and of sacrifices., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Drawings, including of king Saul, the priest Eli, who falls dead after being told that his two sons had been killed and the ark of God taken by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:17-18); and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), and, in the lower margin, the initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial and arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Detail of the lower margin, with initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, a lion, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 255 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

21412, ff. 26-34 [box 41]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Another cutting from the same service book is part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S.

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 275 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

21412, ff. 26-34 [box 41]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Another cutting from the same service book is part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S.

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, trompe l'oeil gems, the arms of Clement VII, plaques inscribed in capitals 'Clemen / VII' and 'Pont / Max', roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 290 x 30 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

21412, ff. 26-34 [box 41]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Another cutting from the same service book is part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S.

• A foliate border with scrolled ends of trompe l'oeil gems and flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 255 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

21412, ff. 26-34 [box 41]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Another cutting from the same service book is part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S.