• Calendar with the beginning of the month of September., 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 Henry Suso at the beginning of a prayer dedicated to him., 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 a woman teaching a group of girls how to read, at the beginning of the ABC. The teacher holds a ferule, a wooden paddle for striking students., 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 the alphabet with 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]).

• Full-page miniature of the Trinity at the beginning of the 'Pater Noster'., 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 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

• 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

• 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'

• null, Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England)

brown pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in red and/or blue. Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England) The text of the chronicle ends with Richard III (f. 33). The

• Illuminated initial 'C'(ome) at the beginning of the statutes of Edward III., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 23 Henry VI

of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 23 Henry VI On f. 298 are verses in English (for a transcription see the 1819 catalogue); on f. 296 is an added extract from the 'Constitutio Cantuuar' Archiep'

• Illuminated initial 'H'(enry) at the beginning of the statutes of Henry IV., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 23 Henry VI

of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 23 Henry VI On f. 298 are verses in English (for a transcription see the 1819 catalogue); on f. 296 is an added extract from the 'Constitutio Cantuuar' Archiep'