• Puzzle initial 'A'(pocalipsis) with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Revelation., Glossed Catholic Epistles (ff. 1-32v), Apocalypse (ff. 33-68v), and Pauline Epistles (ff. 73-167)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.7’(?), inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial P'(rincipium) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Revelation., Glossed Catholic Epistles (ff. 1-32v), Apocalypse (ff. 33-68v), and Pauline Epistles (ff. 73-167)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.7’(?), inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'P'(aulus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of Paul's Epistles., Glossed Catholic Epistles (ff. 1-32v), Apocalypse (ff. 33-68v), and Pauline Epistles (ff. 73-167)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.7’(?), inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with a monk teaching two other monks, at the beginning of Monaldus's Summa de jure canonico., Summa de jure canonico

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.6.11’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'P'(unctus) with Euclid holding a compass, in conversation with three men, at the beginning of Euclid's Elementorum., Elementorum, in the translation by Athelarum

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'S'(uper), in Euclid's Elementorum., Elementorum, in the translation by Athelarum

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) made up of dragons, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.12’, f. [iv]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'G'(losarum), at the beginning of Goffredus Tranensis's Summa super titulis Decretalium., Summa super titulis Decretalium

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.5.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Illuminated initial 'F'(rater), at the beginning of Paul's letter., Bible

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.12’, f. [iv]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Initial 'T'(andem) and 'E'(t) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the prologue and the book of Josue., Bible

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.12’, f. [iv]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'L'(egitur) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Innocent IV's Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium., Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.4.4’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) in Peter Comestor's Historiae scholasticae., Historia scholastica, and Prologus epistolaris ad Guillelmum Campanensem

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v; its book-plate with the

• Marginal diagrams., Elementorum, in the translation by Athelarum

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Illuminated initial and marginal diagrams., Elementorum, in the translation by Athelarum

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Miniatures of the murder of Abel and Noah's Ark., Bible with prologues, and two versions of Psalms

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.8’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Glossed text of Ezekiel 40:6-11., Ezekiel and Daniel, with the Glossa ordinaria

(f. 90v).A Dominican convent, London, founded after 1221, perhaps given by an unidentified countess: inscription on the 18th-century binding, probably copied from a note on the original binding, 'COMITISSAE / TOM VI' and 'OLIM. CONVENT./ PRAED. LONDON'; see also Royal

• Historiated puzzle initial 'D'(ominus) of a figure blessing, in a list of Benedictine houses, with the names of Ely (Eliens), London (Londonicus), Norwich, Stratford, and Thetford visible, and annals from the birth of Christ to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

list of Benedictine houses, with the names of Ely (Eliens), London (Londonicus), Norwich, Stratford, and Thetford visible, and annals from the birth of Christ to 1294. f. i is a book-plate pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf; f. ii is

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 74v): '… as a frende desyre you and as a Christian requer [require] you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not…' (continued on f. 75v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 75v): '… howe the ende of Mathusael [Methuselah] whoe as we reade in the Scriptures was the longeste lived that was of a manne died at the laste for as the…' (continued on f. 76v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk: 'the lorde comforte youre grace and that in his worde whearen all creatures onlye are to be comforted and though…' (continued on f. 78v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)