• Historiated initial 'A'(pres) of the Emperor John enthroned, with a courtier and a messenger, who points to the lower part of the initial that extends into the margin, where John's knights are assaulting two men., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Historiated initial 'R'(eines) with a mail-coated Nureddin, the Sultan of Damascus, with bare legs and an open helmet, fleeing on horseback with a foal underfoot from two knights (Godfrey Martel and Hugh de Lusignan the elder) pursuing him on war horses, trampling a dismembered torso., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Historiated initial 'B'(uymonz) of Saladin's mounted soldiers forcing captives and livestock from the burning city., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Historiated initial 'C'(ez) of Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy lying in state with a mitre, a crozier, and a chalice on his breast, and a number of ecclesiastical figures about him., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of a miniature of Amos as a shepherd, at the beginning of Amos., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698), II, no. 6543.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the Virgin and Child, at the beginning of Cantiques., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698), II, no. 6543.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• Calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

Gilson 1921).In the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 42, no, 3.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimens Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, with an illuminated initial 'A' and partial foliate border, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• null, Vetera Statuta (index Statuta Angliae; Statute book; Statutes of England) preceded by a list of contents (ff. 2-6v); followed by Expositiones Vocabulorum (ff. 200-203); and additions (ff. 203v-226)

on 28 March of that year (dated on f. 23).Francis Hargrave (b. 1740/41, d. 1821), legal writer: signed (f. 2).Purchased as part of the Hargrave collection of legal manuscripts by the British Museum, 1813. Detail London England, S. E.? (London?)

• Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city of London., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. London Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) London England, S. E. (London?)

• Drawing of the skyline of the city of London., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. London Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) London England, S. E. (London?)

• Historiated initial 'D' of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (left centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'O' of Mary Magdalene drying Christ's feet (right centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'L' of a miracle with Christ raising a sick man from bed (lower centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• A historiated and foliate initial 'X' of the Crucifixion., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• A historiated initial ?'I' of Christ preaching to three men., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• A historiated and foliate initial 'A' with a medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing, of a saint preaching to a kneeling crowd., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 28.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal arms of England Stephen Baron London England, S. E. (London?)

• null, Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis, including a Martyrology

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in