• Puzzle initial 'F'(orma), at the beginning of Gilbertus Porretanus's Liber de sex principiis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.17’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'D'(e sophisticis) and flourished heading, at the beginning of Boethius's translation of De sophisticis elenchis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.17’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'F'(orma), at the beginning of Gilbertus Porretanus's Liber de sex principiis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.17’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'D'(e sophisticis) and flourished heading, at the beginning of Boethius's translation of De sophisticis elenchis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.17’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail from the lower margin with diagram illustrating mathematical principles., Philosophical works and fragments, including Pars quarta compendii studii theologie, with works on mathematics, geography, and astrology (index Compendium studii theologiae)

his collection, no. 774 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956).John Prideaux (b. 1578, d. 1650), bishop of Worcester from 1641 to 1650, regius professor of divinity

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Text page in the annals., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Initial 'C' with a dog-headed hybrid., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Decorated initial with a bird biting a dog., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Decorated initial 'A'(nglia), with a hooded hybrid creature, at the beginning of a description of England., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• End of the annals from the birth of Christ to 1294, with an entry for the birth of King Edward II for 1284., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature with a human face, at the beginning of a chronicle of the Saxons to 1294., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with a hybrid creature, and 'B'(ritannia) with hybrid creatures biting, at the beginning of the prologue to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, with the signature of William Herbert in the upper margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Text page in Jeremiah., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Text page London England, S. (London)

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'T'(he) with an animal head, at the beginning of Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Illuminated initial London England, S. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'T'(he) and full border with foliate decoration and hybrid creature, at the beginning of Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Illuminated initial London England, S. (London)

• Illuminated initials in Hosea., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Illuminated initials London England, S. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'I'(n) and full border with hybrid creature at the beginning of Zechariah., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Illuminated initial London England, S. (London)

• Detail of illuminated initial 'A'(ud) in 1 Maccabees., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version; Proverbs to Maccabees

Notes).Bought on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829): inscription (f. [ii]). . Detail London England, S. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'F'(or) in Luke., Bible, in the early Wycliffite version: New Testament, with lessons (ff. 160-177)

'No.22' (f. [i] verso).Bought on 1 February, 1837 from Straker by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Illuminated initial London England, S. (London)