• Full-page miniatures of Sir John de Lisle, on the left, facing Sir John Beauchamp, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. de Lisle and Beauchamp London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Sir Hugh Courteney and Sir John Gray (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Courtney and Grey London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Sir Miles Stapleton and Sir Hugh Wrottesley, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Stapleton and Wrottesley London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Sir John Chandos and Sir Otes Holland (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Chandos and Holland London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Sir Sanset Dabrichecourt and Prince Edward of Woodstock, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Sanset Dabrichecourt and Prince Edward London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Thomas, Earl of Warwick and Ralph, Lord Stafford, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Earl of Warwick and Lord Stafford London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniature of Roger, Earl of March, and Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Earl of March and Burghersh London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniature of John, Lord Mohun (unfinished), and Sir Thomas Holland (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each unfinished and wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Lord Mohun and Holland London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniatures of Sir Richard FitzSimon and Sir Thomas Walle, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. FitzSimon and Walle London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniature of Sir Niel Lorying and Sir James Dandele, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Lorying and Dandele London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniature of Sir Harry Eam (unfinished) and Sir Walter Paveley (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in his Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Eam and Paveley London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Decorated initials, in Bartolus de Saxoferrato's In secundam partem digesti veteris., In secundam partem digesti veteris (ff. 6-160), and others

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of decorated initial., In secundam partem digesti veteris (ff. 6-160), and others

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Historiated initial 'C'(um) depicting a layman in profile (Priscian?) holding a book, at the beginning of Priscian's Grammatica maior., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Initial 'D' with pen-flourishing, in Priscian's Grammatica maior., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Illuminated initials, in Sedulius's Carmen paschale., Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Detail of historiated initial., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Detail of decorated initial., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcus) with birds' heads and interlace on a ground of red dots, and decorated letters in a calligraphic copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V at the beginning of Mark, and on the lower part of the page, an alphabetical 'sampler' of the letter forms found in the manuscript., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Miniature of the Visitation, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Single leaf of a Book of Hours

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). 1 large miniature of the Visitation, accompanied by a large decorated initial and