• Detail of a miniature of the sermon of a hypocritical priest, who preaches to six seated figures while a demon tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,

• Detail from the lower margin of a herald with a horn on the right, and two monkeys in hats jousting, riding a bear and a pig., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

the Vienna and Copenhagen Toison d’Or (ff. 14v, 281v, 284).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Foliation in red beginning on f. 10.Written instructions to the illuminator. 5 half-page miniatures in colours and gold, with full borders, and initials in colours and gold

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man driving an oxen and sheep past a crippled and a king., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

andsheep past a crippled and a king. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated

• Detail of a marginal miniature of a woman shearing a sheep, illustrating the month of June in the calendar., Psalter

and the Trinity (f. 108v). Small marginal calendar miniatures in colours and gold with the labours of the months and Zodiac signs integrated in a full border of acanthus leaves, flowers, birds and fruits on a gold, blue, red

• Table of Virtues in the form of a tree, with coats of arms, a partial rinceaux border, and two wild men wielding clubs., Ethica (index Ethics); De quatuor virtutibus (index On the Four Virtues)

colours and gold with foliate motifs and a partial border with rinceaux decoration in the outer margin (f. 1). Another large initial in colours and gold and foliate motifs (f. 119). Initials in red and blue with red and black

• Miniature of Anthony holding a Tau cross and with a pig, being burned., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')

red and blue ground with a three-sided foliate border (f. 15). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins. Small initials (1 line) and line fillers in gold on red and

• Miniature of Simon de Hesdin presenting his book to the king of France Charles V (index presentation scene), in the foreground, a dog pursues a monkey. Full strew border in the Ghent-Bruges style with acanthus leaves, flowers, figures, and a monkey mounted on a sheep (damaged), with a space left blank for a coat of arms. Decorated initial 'L'(a briefte) at the beginning of book 1., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 1, imperfect

by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian,

• Miniature of courtiers and servants observing a couple lying in bed at the beginning of book 8, and full border with a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 2

a sheep in its mouth and a crippled hybrid creature (f. 47v), a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear (f. 88v). Numerous initials in gold and colours, some with with tendrils of gold leaves and

• Miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter

queen of England and Ireland (1553-1558): inscribed, 'Gode saue the most vertuous and no/bull Quene Marys gras, / and send her to injoye the crou[n]ne / of Eynglande longe tyme and spas / her enimys to confunde, and / hutterly

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sheep-horned dragons., Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre)(index Alexandre)

ff. 83, 86, 92). Foliate initials in colours and gold with extensions. Small initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white, and line-fillers in blue, rose and gold with penwork decoration in white in the

• Detail of a miniature of a stray sheep returning home by the advice of the stag, at the beginning of Chapter 9 of Book 2., Spiegel der Weisheit

sheep returning home by the advice of the stag, at the beginning of Chapter 9 of Book 2. 1 large decorated initial with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (f. 1). 73 small miniatures, in colours

• Detail of a nine-part miniature of a lion, a bear, a boar, a stag, a leopard wearing a crown, a horse, a unicorn, a camel, and a sheep., De proprietatibus rerum (Livre des proprietez des choses)

colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold, and a partial border, at the beginning of the prologue (f. 9). 19 one-column miniatures in colours and gold, with puzzle initials in gold and blue with red and

• Historiated border men driving sheep from a shed, for April., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

is missing. 11 full historiated borders on versos, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1v-11v). 3 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 229, 251, 259). Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours Letters 'IK' linked

• Historiated border with sheep shearing, for June., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

is missing. 11 full historiated borders on versos, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1v-11v). 3 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 229, 251, 259). Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours Letters 'IK' linked

• Detail of a miniature of a fox, having grown old and setting off on a pilgrimage, refusing the companionship of the watch-dog, the wild ass, the bear, the lion, the peacock, the wolf, the pig, and the mule, and choosing the companionship of the panther, the ape, the lamb, the hare, the hedgehog, the ox, the young hound, and the ant, at the beginning of Chapter 24 of Book 1., Spiegel der Weisheit

of a fox, having grown old and setting off on a pilgrimage, refusing the companionship of the watch-dog, the wild ass, the bear, the lion, the peacock, the wolf, the pig,and the mule, and choosing the companionship of the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'U' of Amos tending his sheep with God above., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

287). Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 143 historiated initials in colours, gold, and silver, with full borders, at the beginnings of biblical books and prologues and 1 miniature in the margin (f. 192v). 23 large foliate initials in colours and gold,