• Detail of a miniature of Pamphila collecting cocoons of silk worms from trees and spinning the silk., 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. Pamphila

• Detail of a miniature of men digging the grave of Rhea Silvia, with a wolf and twins 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. Rhea

• 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

• Illuminated initial 'V'(so) with marginal extensions, at the beginning of the text., Treatise on the Love of God

VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: the monogram 'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 549' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Excised initial with a partial foliate border, at the beginning of book 5., Siege of Troy (the Troy Book)

Audelay' (ff. 1-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library: included in in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Excised

• Detail of an excised initial with a partial foliate border, at the beginning of book 5., Siege of Troy (the Troy Book)

Audelay' (ff. 1-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library: included in in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Excised

• 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

• Miniature of le Jouvencel received by a king, queen and princess above the decorated initial 'L'[e] with rose motif., Le Jouvencel (index Jennencel), imperfect at end

in top and bottom margins, some with highlighting in yellow. Le Jouvencel (index Jennencel), imperfect at end The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the list of books at Richmond Palace in 1535 (no 56) and

• Miniature of Le Jouvencel with prisoners above the framed initial 'A'[pres] with red and white roses., Le Jouvencel (index Jennencel), imperfect at end

in top and bottom margins, some with highlighting in yellow. Le Jouvencel (index Jennencel), imperfect at end The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the list of books at Richmond Palace in 1535 (no 56) and

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O'(yez) of a woman holding a book and kneeling before Paul, at the beginning of the Miroir de l'âme., Speculum animae in French translation (Miroir de l'âme)

VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: the monogram 'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 545' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• 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.

• Foliate initial 'Q'(uis) with a full border, at the beginning of the works of Peter of Blois., Letters and opuscula

xp[ist]iana / Will[el]m[u]s Bedmystre' (f.161), and 'Explicit tractat[us] Pet[r]I Ble/sens[sis] cont[ra] p[er]fidia[m] Iudeorum/ quod Will[el]m[u]s Bedmestr[e]' (f. 183).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 17; and in the 1698

• Illuminated initial 'O'(migty) at the beginning of Book 1, with a partial foliate border., Siege of Troy (the Troy Book)

Audelay' (ff. 1-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library: included in in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated