• Detail of miniature of knights and ladies riding to a London tournament., Chroniques, Vol. IV, part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart')

with red pen-flourishing. Line fillers decorated in gold and blue. Cadels. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Chroniques, Vol. IV, part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart') Philippe de Commynes (b. 1447, d. 1511), statesman and chronicler: his added arms, quartered with those

• Historiated initial 'F'(ratres) of the Trinity, at the reading for Trinity Sunday, and an historiated initial 'F'(ratres) of the Last Supper, at the reading for Corpus Christi, with partial bar borders., Epistolary of the Sainte-Chapelle, Use of Paris

in colours and gold (ff. 1, 13, 15, 84, 99v, 108v, 116v (x2)). Large puzzle initials in gold and blue, with pen-flourishing in blue (and red) and red (and blue), developing decorated extensions with fleur-de-lys, 1 developing a full border

• Headpiece and decorated initial at the beginning of the text., Commentary on Plato's Phaedo (index Scholia on Plato's Phaedo)

Headpiece and decorated initial at the beginning of the text. Watermark of an angel, see C. M. Briquet, ~Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600~, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition

• Decorated initial 'D'(e partibus) at the beginning of Georgius Trapezuntius' text., De quatuor declinabilibus partibus ex Prisciani compendium

text in 1471.Catchwords written vertically. Leaf signatures.ff. i-iii are blank flyleaves.Composite codex. Large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Large coloured initials in red or blue, some with reserved lines, others with a small amount of penwork decoration

• Decorated initial 'P'(ascales) at the beginning of Sedulius's Carmen paschale, with simple red decoration in the bowl of the letter., Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

24v, for a list of contents of the composite manuscript; inscribed ‘Seduli(us) & p(ro)sp(er). Glosati’ in a formal script (f. 1, top margin; the Prosper is now Burney 344). Simple red or green initials, some decorated with the other colour

• Detail of decorated initials., Super tribus libris postremis codicis Justiniani, etc., with glosses; and other works

Detail of decorated initials. Ff. 1-24 is a separate manuscript with no illumination except paraph marks in plain red or blue, but the whole volume belonged apparently to Pirckheimer. He added a table of contents at the end (ff.

• Historiated initial 'F' of a doctor in blue coat with ermine collar and red hat standing in front of a lectern and lecturing two pupils in a large hall, with a spray border in colours and gold with foliate tendrils, small leaves, flowers and berries., Commentary on the Canon Medicinae by Avicenna, Book III, Fen XIII-XV

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (unfoliated flyleaf before f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Crayon drawing of an ornament, in the lower margin., De diversis artibus and other texts including De Unguentis, recipes and extracts from the Liber de Coloribus and the Mappae Clavicula

Crayon drawing of an ornament, in the lower margin. Quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of quires 1-13). One leaf missing between ff. 102-103, another between ff. 110-111, and

• Interlaced initial 'D'(isciplina) at the beginning of Isidore, 'Etymologies'., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

man (f. 20v). Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect Written by several scribes from Western France (probably Brittany), partly on palimpsest leaves (14) containing extracts from Eusebius-Jerome's

• Marginal pen drawing of the head of a bearded man., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

man (f. 20v). Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect Written by several scribes from Western France (probably Brittany), partly on palimpsest leaves (14) containing extracts from Eusebius-Jerome's

• Interlaced initial 'D'(yalectica) at the beginning of the chapter on Logic in Book II of Isidore, 'Etymologies'., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

man (f. 20v). Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect Written by several scribes from Western France (probably Brittany), partly on palimpsest leaves (14) containing extracts from Eusebius-Jerome's

• Ink diagram of the Nativity., Chronicle of England ( the 'Anonimalle Chronicle')

chronicle in the same later hand (ff. 336-343)Religious and moral works in a 15th C hand (in two columns) (ff. 1, 344-5) Marginal ink drawings depicting events in the chronicle including: the Nativity (f. 20), the baptism of Ethelbert, the

• Genealogical diagram, ink drawing of sword and decorated initial C., Chronicle of England ( the 'Anonimalle Chronicle')

chronicle in the same later hand (ff. 336-343)Religious and moral works in a 15th C hand (in two columns) (ff. 1, 344-5) Marginal ink drawings depicting events in the chronicle including: the Nativity (f. 20), the baptism of Ethelbert, the

• Ink drawing of a castle., Chronicle of England ( the 'Anonimalle Chronicle')

chronicle in the same later hand (ff. 336-343)Religious and moral works in a 15th C hand (in two columns) (ff. 1, 344-5) Marginal ink drawings depicting events in the chronicle including: the Nativity (f. 20), the baptism of Ethelbert, the

• Ink drawing of coat of arms of Henry II with 3 lions passant gardant, crest and lion crowned and of crown and sceptre., Chronicle of England ( the 'Anonimalle Chronicle')

chronicle in the same later hand (ff. 336-343)Religious and moral works in a 15th C hand (in two columns) (ff. 1, 344-5) Marginal ink drawings depicting events in the chronicle including: the Nativity (f. 20), the baptism of Ethelbert, the

• Decorated initial 'F'(ata) at the beginning of the text., Laurentias carmen

Decorated initial 'F'(ata) at the beginning of the text. ff. 244v-245 are written in Filelfo's hand, the rest of the manuscript was written in a different hand, but annotated by Filelfo.Catchwords. Leaf signatures.For another autograph manuscript by Filelfo, see

• Text page with the third and fourth chapters of the Inferno., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

Text page with the third and fourth chapters of the Inferno. Horizontal catchwords.This manuscript was made in Milan in 1469, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Marginal drawings in black

• Marginal drawings of Dante and Virgil entering Hell., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

Marginal drawings of Dante and Virgil entering Hell. Horizontal catchwords.This manuscript was made in Milan in 1469, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Marginal drawings in black ink of subjects

• Detail of a drawing of the constellation Aries, with the stars picked out as red dots., Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea)

Detail of a drawing of the constellation Aries, with the stars picked out as red dots. Containing Hygenius De Astronomia (ff. 1-30); Priscian, De Duodecim Signis (f. 30r-v); Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere (ff. 30v-32); De

• Detail of a drawing of the constellation Aquarius, with the stars picked out as red dots., Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea)

Detail of a drawing of the constellation Aquarius, with the stars picked out as red dots. Containing Hygenius De Astronomia (ff. 1-30); Priscian, De Duodecim Signis (f. 30r-v); Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere (ff. 30v-32); De