• Detail of an illuminated initial 'C'(um)., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Illuminated initial 'T'(andem), with a partial bar border, at the beginning of the prologue to Joshua., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'E'(t) of Christ and Joshua holding a book, with a partial border, at the beginning of Joshua., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'E'(t) of Christ and Joshua holding a book, at the beginning of Joshua., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) of Christ giving a spear to Judah, at the beginning of Judges., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) of Christ giving a spear to Judah, at the beginning of Judges., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Foliate initial 'R(uth) with a partial border, at the beginning of the prologue to Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis. Full border with a medallion of Descent into Limbo in the lower margin., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of a miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Text page from Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Text page of Leviticus 18: 16, reading 'Et uxorem fratris sui nullus accipet' ('Nobody may marry his brother's wife') marked by a manicule in the margin., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated miniature of the Apparition of Michael, with the saint and two other archangels plunging their lances into the devil's throat watched by Christ and the company of heaven. Historiated full-page border in colours and gold, of foliage, (lower left) the Miracle of Mount Gargano, and two lay figures, one of which is in a roundel. Beneath the miniature is a single four-line red stave, musical notation and a single line of text in gold capitals 'Exultando in Gesu'., Leaf of a Hymnal (index laudario), containing part of the hymn to Michael.

1836), writer on art and collector: his sale, 11 May 1838, lot 186.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; purchased by him at Ottley's sale for £2 1s according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of

• Miniature with a dead landscape, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's De mortis effectibus, on the facing page a brief prose letter addressed to Joachim Bretoner., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniature of the martyrdom of Alban in the upper register, and of the martyrdom of Amphibaldus in the lower register., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Illuminated initials., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire