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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Explicit ot Pseudo-Seneca's Tractatus de quatuor virtutibus. 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Space for a small initial at
letters 'ihc', at the beginning of Pseudo-Seneca's Tractatus de quatuor virtutibus. 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Space for
lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Seneca's Tractatus de quatuor virtutibus. 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Space for
Explicit ot Pseudo-Seneca's Tractatus de quatuor virtutibus. 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1). Heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Space for a small initial at
initials in blue, red, and green (ff. 1, 9, 26v). Initials for the lesser divisions are red with blue flourishing, or vice versa. Blue or red paraphs. Contemporary(?) marginal drawings (e.g. ff. 3v, 17v, 19, 21, 26v) and other designs
1 quire signature (in crayon in the centre of the lower margin of f. 25).ff. 163v and 164 are blank. 1 large foliate initial with a winged dragon and clasps in brown ink with red and green (f. 1).
at the beginning of Cicero's Philippic orations. 1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border with a shield in a wreath in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). Large white vine initials, in colours
the beginning of Cicero's ninth Philippic oration. 1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border with a shield in a wreath in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). Large white vine initials, in colours
1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border with a shield in a wreath in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). Large white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the
1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border with a shield in a wreath in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). Large white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the
1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border with a shield in a wreath in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). Large white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the
the beginning of each book (ff. 1, 14, 27, 36, 45, 62v, 77v, 87, 98v, 110, 136, 148v, 174v, 186, 200, 214, 225, 235v). The white vine decoration extends into the margin on f. 1. Coloured initials in blue. Epistulae
signatures.f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. Large white vine initial in gold and colours with decoration extending into the margin, a wreath enclosing the coat of arms of the Strozzi family, surrounded by pen-flourishing with flowers and besants (f. 1).
border with a wreath enclosing unidentified arms. The decoration, especially the initial on f. 1, is in the Ferrarese manner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Large initial in colours on
198v). Smaller gold initial on coloured ground (f. 2v). Numerous smaller initials in blue (1 in gold but seems to have been originally blue, f. 1; some have not been painted in, e. g. f. 124). Some of these initials
(f. 1). 18 large white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 12, 22v, 29v, 36, 43, 48, 56v, 63, 71v, 77, 84, 94v, 100v, 107v, 114, 123, 128, 133v). Numerous initials in blue. Noctes atticae Unidentified arms (f. 1;
the recto of the 1st in the next quire). Leaf signatures. 21 white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 1, 12v, 24v, 32, 40, 41v, 53, 65v, 74, 84, 95, 105, 118, 129, 142v, 153, 163, 175v, 188, 198,
collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime
to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate motifs (f. 1). Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal notations
Apostle's Creed in Latin scribbled on f. 183v. Full border and initial with foliate decoration in gold and colours (f. 1). Initials in blue with penwork decoration in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red and blue. Cadels in ink