• Two historiated initials 'D'(eus) and 'E'(xaudi) of a king's head (David?), at the beginning of Psalms 53 and 54., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

and 54. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(eus) of a king's head (David?), at the beginning of Psalm 53., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 53. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'E'(xaudi) of a king's head (David?), at the beginning of Psalm 54., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 54. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initials 'I'(n) of a building with a small face visible behind the bars of the window, and 'N'(isi) of a church building., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

church building. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I'(n) of a building with a small face visible behind the bars of the window., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

the window. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'N'(isi) of a church building., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

church building. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of heads of king David and Christ (?), and at the beginning of Psalm 69., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 69. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initials 'D'(eus) with a head of a king, a historiated initial 'O'(mnipotens) with a head of a bishop, and a historiated initial 'D'(eus) of the holy Spirit as a dove, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'C'(eli) of the Virgin and Child, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(eli) of the Virgin and Child, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) with heads of the Virgin and archangel Gabriel, a historiated initial 'D'(eus) of a head of the Virgin and the Holy Spirit as a dove, a historiated initial 'G'(raciam) of a head of the Virgin, and a historiated initial 'C'(oncede) of the Virgin and Child., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

and Child. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Illuminated initial 'S'(uscipere) with the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, and a partial bar border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

bar border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'S'(uscipere) with the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

of Gloucester. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, in the lower margin of the folio., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

the folio. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'S' of the Entombment of Christ., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Decorated initial 'C'(onverte) with acanthus leaves combined with a full foliate border, at the beginning of Compline of the Virgin., Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect

1-6v), including: Edward, Wulstan, Milburgie (in red)(index Milburga), Cuthbert, Erkenwaldi (in red, 30 April and 14 November; London), Ethelburga (in red; Barking, London), etc.ff. 7-8v are blank leaves with later inscriptions. f. 16v is blank.Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures. Including

• null, De chorographia (ff. 1-23), and other works, including an account of a sea voyage (ff. 23v-25v)

(his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7931): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12837, bought by Burney for £1 2s.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical

• Sketch of a blood-letting man 'Awe, wie we ist mir', at the end of the of the Versus de sanitate per menses., Miscellany, with a calendar and medical texts

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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of a historiated initial 'V'(erba) of Jerome in his study., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 2-5), a litany (ff. 143-146), and excerpts from the New Testament

Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, while Capell was imprisoned in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(nima) combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of book 3., Elucidarium

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. Decorated initial Honorius Augustodunensis (index Honorius d'Autun, Honorius of Autun) London England, S. E. (London)