• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers, the motto 'Semper', and a cherub, measuring 430 x 45 mm (at left of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

Add. 60630, ff. 8, 33-38; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and

• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave', and a winged putto, measuring 410 x 50 mm (at right of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

Add. 60630, ff. 8, 33-38; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and

• Full-page border and section of border pasted at its centre in colours and gold with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, and bezants., Cuttings from a manuscript of Innocent VIII

and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 60630, ff. 13-18, 39-42; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A full-page border in colours and gold, with the text removed, of trompe l'oeil flowers, fruit, jewels and cameos, naturalistic birds, hybrid creatues, and three medallions containing the inscriptions 'In / Domino / Confi / do', 'Spes mea Deus' above three violas, and the bishoply arms of Francisco de Mendoza Bobadilla., Cutting from a liturgical manuscript, probably a Missal, of Francisco de Mendoza Bobadilla (index Bovadilla)

Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings possibly from the same Missal are London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 83 (former Mr Neil F. Philips, Q. C., Collection); and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica

• Miniature of the Virgin with the Christ Child, adored by an angel, and a full trompe l'oeil border, at the beginning of the Mass of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.10.2’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Miniature of the Virgin with the Christ Child, adored by an angel, at the beginning of the Mass of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.10.2’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Faceted initial 'M'(agna)., De factionibus extinguendis et civibus in gratiam pristinam revocandis continendisque (a political treatise on the dissensions of the Guelfs and the Ghibellines)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6526.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

• Miniature with Christ praying on the Mount of Olives, accompanied by a full border with the Betrayal, at the beginning of the Passion of Christ., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• A section of foliate border with a lozenge made up of Medicean ~bronconi~ inscribed 'GLO / VI / S' (at left of image)., Cutting from a de' Medici manuscript, probably of Leo X

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on 8th day of sale, 8 May 1856, according to

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Illuminated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Decorated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Miniature of the Baptism of Christ, at the beginning of the second article of Jean le Meung's Sept articles de la foi., Les sept articles de la foi

a eté doné, le 24 May 1765, par Madame Richard à M. Biscarel Prêtre de St Sulpice' (f. 1).Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: sold anonymously (the identification is in the Department of Manuscripts's copy of the catalogue) at Fletcher's, 21 April

• Miniature of Christ the Redeemer, at the beginning of an added prayer in English., Added miniature for an inscribed prayer in English

in colours and gold (f. 3v). Added miniature for an inscribed prayer in English A member of the Gower family, London, by 1467: the birth of Annas Gower is inscribed as having taken place on 25 August, 1467, in the

• Miniatures of the Annunciation and Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (underdrawing on recto) with historiated borders including heraldic arms of the Butler family., Added miniature

in colours and gold (28v). Underdrawing for the same miniature (f. 28). Added miniature A member of the Gower family, London, by 1467: the birth of Annas Gower is inscribed as having taken place on 25 August, 1467, in the

• Drawing of the world, with God wearing a crown above, Christ in Majesty, and the devil bound below., Tractatus de sphaera (index De sphera)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for 10s, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Miniature of the Visitation, with a scatter border of red roses, moths, a fly, and a deer, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Calendar roundel with a gentleman and a lady riding the same horse, and an insect in the right margin, at the beginning of May., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Calendar roundel with a man warming himself by a fire, at the beginning of January, with a bumble bee in the right margin., Book of Hours, Use of Rome

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis