• Miniature of a Soul approaching its good angel, at the beginning of a prayer., Miniatures added to a Book of Hours

(b. 1418, d. 1475), Count of Saint-Pol and Constable of France: inscribed '[Ainsi?] sera Luxembourg' (inside upper cover)? Albert Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, who married, in 1573, Mary Eleanora, elder daughter of William, 5th Duke of Juliers and Clèves: inscribed

• Miniature of Michael defeating Lucifer, at the beginning of his suffrage., Miniatures added to a Book of Hours

(b. 1418, d. 1475), Count of Saint-Pol and Constable of France: inscribed '[Ainsi?] sera Luxembourg' (inside upper cover)? Albert Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, who married, in 1573, Mary Eleanora, elder daughter of William, 5th Duke of Juliers and Clèves: inscribed

• Miniature of Soul approaching its good angel, at the beginning of a prayer., Miniatures added to a Book of Hours

(b. 1418, d. 1475), Count of Saint-Pol and Constable of France: inscribed '[Ainsi?] sera Luxembourg' (inside upper cover)? Albert Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, who married, in 1573, Mary Eleanora, elder daughter of William, 5th Duke of Juliers and Clèves: inscribed

• Miniature of Olympias giving birth to Alexander the Great, with two eagles on the roof of the palace (foretelling Alexander's two empires in Europe and Asia). The temple of Diana at Ephesus burns in the background as a portent of Alexander's revenge on the Persians for their invasion of Greece under Xerxes in 480 BC., Historia Alexandri Magni

da Lucena, a Portuguese in the service of Isabella of Portugal and then of Margaret ofYork, first presented to Charles in 1468; preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1-11v). ?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink

• Decorated initial 'A'(s) with pen-flourishing., Poems, imperfect

1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial John Multon

• Detail of added marginal annotation (in the hand of Humfrey Wanley?)., Poems, imperfect

1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Added marginal annotation John

• Decorated initial 'A' with pen-flourishing at the beginning of Henry VI's statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), for Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, to 18 Henry VI (imperfect)

of each statute and its number are labeled in the margin. Gothic script is used for incipits, excipits, and headings. Contemporary foliation. Catchwords at the end of each gathering. Middle of f. 228, watermark of a cross on top

• Historiated and foliate full border with three medallions of half-length figures of God the Father, a saint writing and a prophet holding a scroll inscribed: 'ecce virgo conc(ipiet) et pa(riet filium)', with a historiated initial 'V'(ultum) of the Annunciation with display script for the textual opening with letters in a four-colour sequence, and a foliate initial 'E'(uctavit)., Leaves from a Missal of Cardinal Domenico della Rovere

recto as verso. The verso of f. b contains text from the end of the rubric for the Blessing of the Palms from the Mass for Passion Sunday and is followed by the beginning of the Mass for Palm Sunday