• Miniature of the Last Judgment at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• Full-page miniature of the Virgin and Child at the beginning of a prayer to the Virgin., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• Beginning of a prayer to the Virgin in Dutch, surrounded by a full border., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• 'Champ' initials at the beginning of a prayer to the Virgin in Dutch., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• 'Champ' initials at the beginning of prayers to the Virgin in Dutch., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• Miniature of the Crucifixion at the beginning of a prayer to the Instruments of the Passion., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• Miniature showing dice and Christ's robe to illustrated a prayer to the Instruments of the Passion., Prayer book with an alphabet and texts for beginning readers (index Primer)

name 'Iohannis Heesbeen' and referring to the city of Bosch (?s'Hertogenbosch) (f. 209). Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed ‘Bought of H. W.' (f. [ii]).

• Marginal miniatures of the kingship ritual in Trirconnell of killing of the white mare, the bath of a king in a stew of mare's meat, and eating of the meat by the king's supporters; and on the opposite page, two men of Connaugh in a boat called a curragh and an Irishman riding bare-chested on a horse., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

d.1609), in the entry of the catalogue of St. Augustine's abbey (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008, p. 939)The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1116' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Marginal miniatures of examples of bestiality: the Cow-stag of Chester, the woman of Connaught embracing a goat and Joanna of Paris embracing a lion, with an Irish cockerel, and Kevin of Glendalough allowing a bird to nest in his hand., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

d.1609), in the entry of the catalogue of St. Augustine's abbey (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008, p. 939)The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1116' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• null, Legendae sanctorum

initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red. Legendae sanctorum Inscription in English (f. 166v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and

• null, Medical treatises

plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• null, Medical treatises

plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as

• Drawing of flasks., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• 3 jars., Medical treatises

in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased

• Coloured initials., 5 wisdom books from the Old Testament, including part of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus (the 'Egerton Codex')

or red. 5 wisdom books from the Old Testament, including part of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus (the 'Egerton Codex') Purchased by the British Museum from William Pickering on 11 November 1843 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Coloured initial and display script., Part of the Old Testament, including part of Canticum canticorum

of letters in yellow, red, or blue. Part of the Old Testament, including part of Canticum canticorum Purchased by the British Museum from William Pickering on 11 November 1843 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• Drawing of a battle between mounted knights., Chanson d'Aspremont, imperfect

According to Hunt 1987, one of three thirteenth-century English manuscripts with secular romance illustrations. 45 pen drawings and fragments of 2 more, with a wash of green, and often red, or sometimes yellow and/or blue, often of knights on horseback

• Diagrams of some 'pictura urinarum', in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Drawing of a zodiacal man, in a medical treatise., Medical treatises

20). Small initials in plain red. Spaces for initials. Diagrams (ff. 4v-9. Medical treatises Inscriptions in English in different hands, 15th-century (ff. 30v, 31, 71v, 72, 72v).Inscription, 15th-century: 'Francis Stuplero(?)' (f. 31v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician

• Puzzle initial 'N'(umquid) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of 'Ordinarium sive Alphabetum vitae religiosae'., Opera (index Works), imperfect at the end

as '168', omitted by the modern pencil foliation that corrects the old one from f. 168 onwards. Loss of 16 leaves (i.e. one gathering) after f. 247, corresponding to old foliation '250-265', with consequent loss of the rarely attested 'Pastoralia'