née Cecily Neville], duchess ofYork (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband RichardofYork, 3rd duke ofYork (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes the Yorkists badges of the white rose
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 52a); New York, The
Initials 'L'(iber) and 'D'(eus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 4 ofRichardof St-Victor's In apocalypsim. 1 large initial in blue, with reserved designs, with foliate penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 1). Smaller initials mostly
Decorated Initials 'L'(iber) and 'D'(eus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 4 ofRichardof St-Victor's In apocalypsim. 1 large initial in blue, with reserved designs, with foliate penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 1). Smaller initials
on a ground of red dots, and decorated letters in a calligraphic copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V at the beginning of Mark, and on the lower part of the page, an alphabetical 'sampler' of the letter forms
Miniature of the Visitation, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin. The calligraphic copies include representations of a harp (f. 68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the
in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Richard II England
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England) The text of the chronicle ends with Richard III (f. 33). The pictorial genealogy continues to Henry VIII in the same scribal and artistic hand, including Catherine of Aragon, Mary, and
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the
heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the