• Historiated initial of the General Resurrection of the dead., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

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

• White vine initial 'N'(on) and border. Added 17th-century ownership inscription by Antoninus Martius Medice in the lower margin., Various works including De nobilitate vera (ff. 2-29), a letter of Carlo Aretino to Poggio (ff. 33-35), etc.

Martius Medices, 17th century: inscribed with his name (f. 2).James Woodman (d. 1728), London bookseller and Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: acquired from Woodman via Davis by Edward Harley on

• Detail of historiated initial of a bishop., Summa de casibus poenitentiae, imperfect

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. 3); its book-plate with the

• Detail of decorated initial., Summa de casibus poenitentiae, imperfect

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. 3); its book-plate with the

• Detail of coloured initial., Summa de casibus poenitentiae, imperfect

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. 3); its book-plate with the

• Detail of colophon., Summa de casibus poenitentiae, imperfect

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. 3); its book-plate with the

• Decorated initial 'P'(ost), with the book number in the upper margin. Citations of the Gospel are marked with their first letters in red (contrasting with green for sections of the commentary) and a diplet in the margin by each line., In Lucam

Mainwaring of Over Peover, Philip's grandfather.Sir Henry Mainwaring (b. 1726, d. 1797), 4th baronet.: his book-plate (inside upper cover).Joseph Lilly, London bookseller: purchased by the British Museum at the Lilly sale, 27 January 1873, lot 1375 for £14 using the

• Pedigree of the Grimshaw of Claiton (index Clayton), with their coat of arms., 'The Visitacion of Lancashire' (index Visitation of Lancashire) (unfinished)

of Lancashire) (unfinished) William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), herald, playwright and topographer, c. 1575 citizen and Haberdasher of London, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1597: written by him in 1598 following a visitation in 1467 (f. 2*), notes probably

• 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

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) depicting Quintilian(?) writing; with a three-sided border incorporating putti supporting heraldic arms., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,

• Illuminated white vine initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of Book 9 of Quintilian's Institutiones., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,

• Illuminated white vine initia 'V'(entum), at the beginning of Book 12 of Quintilian's Institutiones., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,

• 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 illluminated initial., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,

• 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

• Flourished initials., Lives of female Saints in verse

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; its book-plate with the

• 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

• Detail of illluminated initial., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,

• Detail of historiated initial., Institutiones

A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries~, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): ~Great Britain to Spain~ (1989), p. 45).Anthony Askew (bap. 1722,