• Miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels; and the historiated initial 'C'(um) of David playing the harp with two angels, at the beginning of Psalm 4., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 4. 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 a miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

two angels. 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

• Decorated initial 'B'(ritanina) and the inscriptions of Edward Fox and Robert Sansfeld in the right margin., Chronicle

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

• Decorated initials in a medical miscellany., Preface to Compositiones, De medicamentis liber

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

• Diagram of The Tower of Wisdom, with micro-architectural decoration, and on the right, a coloured initial at the beginning of the Explanation of the Tower of Wisdom., Theological miscellany, including provebial Latin poetry, and William of Waddington's Le Manuel des Pechiez (f. 81r-v); the 'Speculum theologie'

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

• Decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing in Martinus Polonus Chronicon., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, to 1285

(f. 2).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); its book-plate (inside upper

• Decorated initial 'A'(d), at the beginning of Johannes de Garlandia's Compendium metricum de synonimis., Compendium metricum de synonimis

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 bookplate, inscribed in

• Detail of the puzzle initial Initial 'H'(ec) at the beginning of book 4 of Boethius's consolatio philosophiae., De Consolatione Philosophiae (index Consolation of Philosophy)

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

• null, Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his

• Full-page frame with interlace, and words in gold and silver, before the beginning of Luke., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Full-page frame with interlace, and illuminated initial 'Q'(uidem) with bird heads, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Full-page frame with interlace, and words in gold and silver, before the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Full-page frame with interlace, and illuminated initial 'I(n) with bird heads, at the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Full page miniature of the arrival of Brutus to England, the slaying of giants and the building of a city, possibly London., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

the slaying of giants and the building of a city, possibly London. The volume is a composite miscellany of historical texts and documents of different provenance, mostly with no significant decoration; it is imperfect at the end. For a detailed

• Illuminated initial 'S'(uper), in a 15th-century copy of Psalm 135: 1-136:5., Leaf of a noted liturgical Psalter, with Psalm 135: 1-136:5 (verso); 136:5-137 (recto)

collected by him.Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Illuminated initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'S'(uper), in a 15th-century copy of Psalm 136:1., Leaf of a noted liturgical Psalter, with Psalm 135: 1-136:5 (verso); 136:5-137 (recto)

fragments collected by him.Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of king David pointing to his eyes at Psalm 26: 'Dominus illuminatio mea' / 'The Lord is my light', and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., 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

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(antate) of monks singing at a lecturn, at Psalm 97: 'Cantate domino canticum novum' / 'Sing to the Lord a new song', and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., 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

• Historiated initial 'V'(erba) of Jerome in his study and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., 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

• Talbot arms within the Garter with mottoes, crest, supporters and mantling., Statutes of the Order of the Garter dated 1561

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. Talbot arms London England, S. E. (London)