• Illuminated initial 'I' with foliate decoration., New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version, with prologues and a calendar and table of lessons for the use of Sarum from both Testaments

Cat. Part xi. MS no. 1537 / February 1826' (f. [ii]); his sale, 1836, lot 1513, bought by Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller for £18 18s.Payne and Foss: bought by the British Museum in 1849, for £30, using the Bridgewater fund

• Marginal diagrams., De Philosophia, Astronomical treatises, Imago Mundi (f. 43), etc.

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1 5s., along with 32 other

• Coloured initial., Kalendaria (ff. 1-12v); Astronomical treatises

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Illuminated initial and border., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Decorated initials., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Drawing of a chemical process with a standing man, in the Practica geometrie., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Puzzle initial 'M'(an) with pen-flourishing., Memoriale Credencium

Paraph marks in red or blue. Memoriale Credencium 15th century annotations throughout.Statutes of Bishop Roger Niger for the archdeaconry of London: added in a 15th century hand (ff. 1-3).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend

• White vine initial 'E'(go) in brown ink at the beginning of the text., Epistulae ad familiares (index Epistolae ad familiares)

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• White vine initial 'P'(re multis) with a butterfly at the beginning of Demosthenes' Orationes., Various works including Demosthenes' Orationes (index Orations), Aeschines' Orationes, Oratio pro Ctesiphonte, and other orations

formulae addressing various persons beginning with Pope Martin V (dedication) and ending with the nobles and aldermen of London (ff. 177-184). 9 large white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 1, 9, 14, 19v, 23v, 29v, 42, 92, 157),

• Initial 'H'(ere) in red with pen-decoration at the beginning of the Dietary for Henry V., Miscellany of verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, medicine and veterinary, including a translation of Gaston Phebus's 'Livre de Chasse', in the Middle English translation by Edward of Norwich entitled 'Master of the Game' (ff. 3-85v), a dietary for King Henry V (ff. 91-98v) and a treatise on equine medicine (ff. 99-128v)

Kenington, 16th century: inscribed with his name (f. 129).Peter Otteley, 16th century: his inscription 'Peter Otteley parson of Wansted from London sivene miles in Essex...' (f. 1*; see Wright 1972). Rawfe Parker, 16th century: his inscription 'Rawfe parker de Fulham

• Illuminated initial 'V'(enio) entwined with blue knotted strapwork, with the opening words of the text in square capitals, written in a three-colour sequence, at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem, book 4., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A member of the Contarini family of Venice: with their arms, bendy of seven,

• Illuminated initial 'P'(renotandum) with a catchword in the lower margin., Miscellany, including a chronicle from 1326 to 1399, De remediis utriusque fortune, extract (f. 10); Epigramma de Goliardo et episcopo; various recipes, including some cookery recipes from the 'Forme of Cury'

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; its book-plate, inside upper

• Initial 'S'(equitur) made up of a hybrid creature with a bird or dragon's (?) body and a horned human head, at the beginning of book 10 of Pliny's Historia naturalis., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), 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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated initials 'P'(linius) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Vita Plini Secundi and letter 11., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), 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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Andrew G. Watson, ~Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library~, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166, where he rejects this as the date of the manuscript).Ludovico Carbone (b. 1430, d.

• Detail of initial., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Andrew G. Watson, ~Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library~, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166, where he rejects this as the date of the manuscript).Ludovico Carbone (b. 1430, d.

• Detail of initial., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Andrew G. Watson, ~Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library~, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166, where he rejects this as the date of the manuscript).Ludovico Carbone (b. 1430, d.

• Detail of the upper portion of an illuminated border and initial 'O', with various flowers., Troy book, imperfect (translated from the Latin of Guido de Columna)

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. 1v); its book-plate (f. iii

• Illuminated border with flowers and a peacock at the beginning of book 5 of John Lydgate's Troy book., Troy book, imperfect (translated from the Latin of Guido de Columna)

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. 1v); its book-plate (f. iii

• Detail of initial., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Andrew G. Watson, ~Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library~, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166, where he rejects this as the date of the manuscript).Ludovico Carbone (b. 1430, d.