• Detail of a miniature of Athaliah ordering the slaughter of the princes of Judah, with her death by stoning behind., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Athaliah

• Detail of a miniature of Theoxena in a ship, fleeing from Philip V of Macedon, and taking poison., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Theoxena

• Detail of a miniature of the queen of Orgiagon presenting the head of her ravisher to the king of the Gaulgres., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Queen

• Detail of a miniature of Aemilia, wife of Scipio Africanus, condoning her husband's affair with a slave., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Aemilia

• Detail of a miniature of Seneca and his wife Pompeia Paulina being bled to death., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Seneca

• Detail of a miniature of Faustina, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, with one of her lovers, and a man with an anvil., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Faustina

• Detail of a miniature of Jeanne, queen of Jerusalem and Sicily, receiving gifts from her subjects., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne

• Detail of a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl writing, with a partial border and a foliate initial 'E'(rithire), at the beginning of chapter XXI., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Erithrean

• Detail of a miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Miniature of Durandus de Campania presenting the book to Jeanne de Navarre, with a foliate initial 'S'(elon) and a full border, at the beginning of the text., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Jeanne de

• Puzzle initial ‘A’(u), at the beginning of part II., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial

• Colophon reading 'Ce livre est accompli et achive / le vendredi ixe jour de juil/let lan mil iiiic. xxviii. / deo gracias'., Speculum dominarum (Le Miroir des Dames)

a crown (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Colophon Durandus

• Detail of a miniature composed of four compartments of Boccaccio presenting the book to Andrea Acciaiuoli and a group of women., De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

et renomées) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 11v, or 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Boccaccio

• Frontispiece of green drapery bearing the royal arms of England, with masks, jewels, putti, and the inscription 'Fortunam Augusti superes et Nestoris annos'., Strategikos (a treatise on military tactics)

arms of England supported by hybrid creatures, and the inscription, 'Fortunam Augusti superes et Nestoris annos' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1235' (f. 1).John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d.

• Text page with coloured initials and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initial and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

mon[achum]' (f. I verso).Flyleaf (f. i) contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• null, De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Full border and white vine initial 'G'(allia) at the beginning of Julius Caesar's De bello gallico., De bello gallico with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, De bello alexandrino, De bello africo, De bello hispaniensis (index Bellum Gallicum, Commentarii de bello gallico)

Young, the Royal Librarian, in 1616 (see also 15 B VII)Red royal seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],