• Historiated initial 'E'(t) of Christ and Joshua holding a book, with a partial border, at the beginning of Joshua., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'E'(t) of Christ and Joshua holding a book, at the beginning of Joshua., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) of Christ giving a spear to Judah, at the beginning of Judges., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) of Christ giving a spear to Judah, at the beginning of Judges., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Foliate initial 'R(uth) with a partial border, at the beginning of the prologue to Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis. Full border with a medallion of Descent into Limbo in the lower margin., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of a miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Text page from Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Text page of Leviticus 18: 16, reading 'Et uxorem fratris sui nullus accipet' ('Nobody may marry his brother's wife') marked by a manicule in the margin., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Puzzle initials., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

years war.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7; its book-plate with the

• Detail of puzzle initial., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

years war.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7; its book-plate with the

• Puzzle initial 'S'(exta)., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

years war.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7; its book-plate with the

• Miniature with a dead landscape, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's De mortis effectibus, on the facing page a brief prose letter addressed to Joachim Bretoner., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of puzzle initials., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

years war.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7; its book-plate with the

• Detail of puzzle initial, with a hybrid creature and a flower., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

years war.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7; its book-plate with the