• Detail of a miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• Calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

Gilson 1921).In the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 42, no, 3.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimens Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, with an illuminated initial 'A' and partial foliate border, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 28.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal arms of England Stephen Baron London England, S. E. (London?)

• Puzzle initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of the statutes for Westminster., A collection of English statutes and laws to the reign of Richard II, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1-29), and a chancery register (ff. 30-54)

nation 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. Puzzle initial London England, S. (London ?)

• Diagrams of the eclipses of the moon, from Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium., Kalendarium

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. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Text page., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border, at the beginning of Judges., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the marginal decoration., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• null, Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• null, Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Text page., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Initial words decorated with pen-flourishing in brown ink, at a ~Hoshanah~ (poetical prayer) for ~Hoshanah Rabbah~ (the seventh day of Sukkot; for the poem, see Davidson vol. 1, no. 1857)., Prayer book with Haggadah (ff. 71-88) and ~Pirqei Avot~ (ff. 88v-115), Ashkenazi rite

Gaster' (f. 161v); no. 582 in his collection [Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London(London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996]; purchased by the British Museum from him in 1925 together with

• Detail of puzzle initial., 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

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• 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

• Detail of a miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, from the De Lisle Psalter (Arundel 83 II)., Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter'; 'Arundel 83 II'), including a Sarum calendar (ff. 117-122v), followed by 24 illustrations: 13 moral, devotional, and theological diagrams, 9 pages of images of the life of Christ, and two facing miniatures of the Madonna and child and the Crucifixion (ff. 123v-135)

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. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• 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

• Detail of a minature of the Flight into Egypt, from the De Lisle Psalter (Arundel 83 II)., Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter'; 'Arundel 83 II'), including a Sarum calendar (ff. 117-122v), followed by 24 illustrations: 13 moral, devotional, and theological diagrams, 9 pages of images of the life of Christ, and two facing miniatures of the Madonna and child and the Crucifixion (ff. 123v-135)

London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Flight into Egypt Master of the Madonna