• Decorated initial., Welsh Laws, in Latin translation

Dafydd Rhys, John Davies) (b. 1534, d. 1609?), physician and grammarian: owned after August 1660.William Nicolson (b. 1655, d. 1727), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and antiquary: given by him to the Harleian collection on 1 May 1713 as

• Historiated initials 'I'(n) of a building with a small face visible behind the bars of the window, and 'N'(isi) of a church building., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

visible behind the bars of the window, and 'N'(isi) of a church building. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of

• Detail of an historiated initial 'N'(isi) of a church building., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

initial 'N'(isi) of a church building. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop expelling a devil from a church tower., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

a bishop expelling a devil from a church tower. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated

• Illuminated initial 'Þ'(is), with a partial bar border., Wycliffite sermon cycle, 'The Church and her members'

158). Initials in blue with red pen flourishing. Paraphs in blue. Rubrics and underlining in red. Wycliffite sermon cycle, 'The Church and her members' Thomas Dekyn, a Dominican friar: on f. 196v in a late fifteenth-century hand is a licence

• null, Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary), Use of Sarum (ff. 1-97v); Calendar for Salisbury (ff. 98-103v); Ordinal, Use of Sarum (ff. 104-133); Breviary, Use of Sarum (ff. 134-202v) (ends imperfectly)

Westnewton anno Domini 1438' (9 November, f. 103); 'Obitus Erne Rawlins [no year]' (12 November, f. 103). Dedication of the church of Norwich, 15th-century: 'Dedicacio ecclesie Norwic' (23 September, f. 102).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl

• White vine initials at the beginning of the text., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

wheat, etc.), lists of purchases, of letters written to various persons, mention of a donation towards the restauration of a church ( 'la donatione di m^a^ Maria di bast[ian]o minorbetti fu fatta addi 12 di maggio 1565' (f. 2v)), etc.

• Pen-flourished 'L'(audate) and musical notation., Ritual, Ambrosian use, including a prayer for the duke of Milan and count of Pavia (ff. 42r-v, 48v) and one for the congregation of St Innocent (f. 48v), imperfect

for a congregation in the diocese of Milan, possibly the Congregazione dei Raccomandati di S. Maria di Pavia at the Church of S. Innocenzo in Colleri (Pavia), as suggested by a prayer for 'i nostri fradeli de sancto Innocentio' (f.

• Decorated initial 'S'([an]c[t]a) with penwork decoration at the beginning of a prayer to Mary Magdalen., Prayer book, including verse (imperfect)

carmen’ (f. 71v)ff. 61-64 is a quire with later additions (see Provenance).Unfinished.Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes (with ~litterae significativae~), England (Christ Church - Canterbury), (ff. 37, 71v, 133); late neumes on four-line brown staves, England, second half of the 12th century

• Decorated initial 'D'(eum) with pen-flourishing in book 1., Theological miscellany entitled 'Compendium theologicae veritatis'

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Miniature of the Visitiation shown as taking place in Florence, in front of the church of San Giovannino, with the Medici Palace on the right and a view up the Via Gori in the background, and full all'antica borders, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

place in Florence, in front of the church of San Giovannino, with the Medici Palace on the right and a view up the Via Gori in the background, and full all'antica borders, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours

• Decorated foliate initial 'B'(eatus), and a three-sided foliate border with a bas-de-page scene of a farmer's wife pursuing a fox who has stolen a goose, at the beginning of the Ordinal., Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary), Use of Sarum (ff. 1-97v); Calendar for Salisbury (ff. 98-103v); Ordinal, Use of Sarum (ff. 104-133); Breviary, Use of Sarum (ff. 134-202v) (ends imperfectly)

Westnewton anno Domini 1438' (9 November, f. 103); 'Obitus Erne Rawlins [no year]' (12 November, f. 103). Dedication of the church of Norwich, 15th-century: 'Dedicacio ecclesie Norwic' (23 September, f. 102).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl

• Detail of text., Missal

147. Missal The cathedral of St. Kylian, Würzburg, between 1443 and 1455: the calendar includes the dedication of the old church of Würzburg (26 July), in black, and the feasts of Kylian, its octave (8 and 15 July), and the

• Initial 'A'(ftir) with and full border with interlace motif., The Orcherd of Syon

Middlemore (f. 192).'Thomas Poynes' (f. 192v).'Walter Standen' (f. 192).'Thomas Thornton' (f. 193).'Robert Wakeley' (f. 193).John Batteley (bap. 1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: his collection sold to Harley on 5 November 1723 (see Wright, 1966).The Harley Collection,

• Illluminated initial 'A'( multis) with a partial foliate bar border., Miscellany including William of Malmesbury's De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3- 40v), Cassiodorus' De orthographia (ff. 41-52), Marbod's Lapidarium, with gloss (ff. 106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum (f. 224r-v), imperfect

233).Added ?price, 14th or 15th century (f. 232v). Emmanuel College, Cambridge (see Wright 1972).Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): inscribed 'Tho: Baker' (f.

• Puzzle initial 'T'(he) with pen-flourishing extending into the margins to form a partial border., Common-profit book (or book for general good) of Robert Holond, including the Treatise of Discretion of Spirits (ff. 24-37v), imperfect

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Detail of a historiated intial with a bishop in a church with the scroll text 'Per omnia secula seculorum'., Pontifical; Tabula

with a bishop in a church with the scroll text 'Per omnia secula seculorum'. Musical notation on four-line staves.ff. 1-2 are paper flyleaves; f. 249v is a paper leaf pasted onto a parchment leaf.According to Scott, made in two campaigns

• Detail of a historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with king David at prie-dieu, with harp and church in background, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

king David at prie-dieu, with harp and church in background, at the beginning of Psalm 1. Includes the Gospel of Nicodemus entitled 'Tractatus passionis Christi secundum Nichodemum' (ff. 282-286v), the Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 323-337v), and capitula of the