• Detail from the roll: a man on stilts playing a pipe with an animal-head., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of Cnut, king of England, Denmark, and Norway, and his sons Harald Harefoot and Harthacnut., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll: Rolo, duke of Normandy, his son William with his son Richard and his descendents, and William the Conqueror, with a marginal scene of a hare on a horse hunting a deer., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of king Henry I, his wife Maud (or Matilda), their son William and daughter Maud (or Matilda)., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll: Henry III holding a model of a church, and his children: Edward, Margaret, Edmund, Beatrice, Katharine, and again Edward wearing a crown., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll: diagram of the Heptarchy., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of three kings: Egbert (or Ecgberht), king of the West Saxons, his son Æthelwulf, and king Beorhtric, with a man on stilts playing a pipe with an animal-head., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of king Alured (or Alfred, king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons) and his daughter Alfled (or Æthelflæd)., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of six roundels of Edmund II Ironside and his descendants: Edward Ætheling, Edgar, Margaret, Edmund, and Christine., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Fragment of the roll with a diagram of the Heptarchy., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Fragment of the roll with the genealogical line from Ethelred to Edred., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Fragment of the roll with the genealogical line from Edwin to Edmund II Ironside and his descendants: Edward Ætheling, Edgar, Margaret, Edmund, and Christine., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Fragment of the roll with the genealogical line of Cnut, roundels of Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, and the line of the Normam ancestors of William the Conqueror: Rollo, William and Richard I the Fearless., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of the descendants of Richard I the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, to Henry II and his descendants., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Detail from the roll of the royal line from Henry II to Edward I., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

beginning. Numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing. Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with

• Pen-flourished initial 'F'(rater) with two sided pen-flourished border, at the beginning of the Prologue., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a pen-flourished initial 'H'(ec sunt), at the beginning of Exodus., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a pen-flourished initial 'L'(ocutus), at the beginning of Numbers., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Illuminated initials 'T'(andem) and 'E'(t factum) with a partial trompe l'oeil border, at the beginning of the prologue to Joshua and of Joshua., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Illuminated initial 'F'(uit vir) with trompe l'oeil border containing a miniature of David killing Goliath, at the beginning of 1 Kings., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after