• Miniature of 'Sabic Pompee' (Poppaea Sabina), wife of Nero, in a horse-litter., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Triaria, wife of L. Vitellius, in battle., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of 'Semiamira' (Julia Soaemias), mother of Elagabalus, among the Roman senators., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Zanobia, queen of Palmyra, hunting in a wood, and with her army., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Pope Joan in an ecclesiastical procession, giving birth to an infant., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Irene being crowned empress at Constantinople., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of 'Enguborade' (Engeldruda), Florentine virgin, given in marriage to Guido by the Emperor Otho., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of of the marriage of Constantia to the Emperor Henry VI., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Jeanne, queen of Jerusalem and Sicily, receiving gifts from her subjects., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Flora enthroned in a landscape, with musicians, during her festival, with an illuminated initial 'S'., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a pen drawing accompanying a medical recipe for stomach-ache., Commonplace book and medical miscellany put together by Thomas Fayreford, including a list of his medical cases and cures (ff. 9r-v), an alphabetically arranged herbal (ff. 13-64v), his medical and surgical compendia (ff. 72v-124v, 125-151, 167-172v), and Ponce's 'Modus medendi' (ff. 65-72)

Detail of a pen drawing accompanying a medical recipe for stomach-ache. The volume also includes the 'Novele cirurgerie', a collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman, datable to the 13th century, with initials in red (ff. 7-8v). Border decorated with

• Marginal pen drawing of a horned animal (goat ?)., Commonplace book and medical miscellany put together by Thomas Fayreford, including a list of his medical cases and cures (ff. 9r-v), an alphabetically arranged herbal (ff. 13-64v), his medical and surgical compendia (ff. 72v-124v, 125-151, 167-172v), and Ponce's 'Modus medendi' (ff. 65-72)

Marginal pen drawing of a horned animal (goat ?). The volume also includes the 'Novele cirurgerie', a collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman, datable to the 13th century, with initials in red (ff. 7-8v). Border decorated with penwork and

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

Ingrillani,...) including Alberto Contalberti (?= the vicar of San Miniato, near Florence, in 1619), dated 1610-12, Tuscany (ff. 1v-2v, 107-10). John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Historiated initial 'P'(receptis) with a man holding a book (Augustine or Orosius), with acanthus extending into the margins, and roundel enclosing arms in the lower margin at the beginning of the text., Historia adversus paganos (index Historiarum adversum paganos)(ff. 1-68v); Epitoma de Tito Livio (index Epitome of Livy)(ff. 69-111v); Ab urbe condita [periochae](ff. 112-147v); C. Julii Caesaris Epistulae (ff. 147v-148v); Zenobius de Florencia's Oratio (added; ff. 149-155v)

Historiated initial 'P'(receptis) with a man holding a book (Augustine or Orosius), with acanthus extending into the margins, and roundel enclosing arms in the lower margin at the beginning of the text. Beginning with a table of capitula and

• Puzzle initial 'P'(oule) at the beginning of I Corinthians., Wycliffite Bible, New Testament (Later Version)

Puzzle initial 'P'(oule) at the beginning of I Corinthians. Catchwords.Red paper star stuck on f. 135v, in Acts.ff. 1* and 1** are paper flyleaves. Puzzle initials in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 2, 22, 59, 75, 82v,

• Puzzle initial 'I' (n primordio) with pen-flourishing (including 'J-border') at the beginning of the text. Ownership inscription cut out in the lower margin (possibly of Lord William Howard)., Historical chronicle (until 1258)

be correpond to the size of his signature (f. 7), note possibly in his hand (f. 88v) (see Wright 1972). John Warburton (b. 1682, d. 1759), of Bury, county Lancashire, antiquary and herald, Somerset Herald in 1720: sold to Edward

• Initial 'H' with interlaced and foliate decoration., Commentarium in Epistolas Paulini, imperfect

sketches (ff. 28, 95, 130, lower margins). Spaces left blank for initials (ff. 17, 17v). Commentarium in Epistolas Paulini, imperfect John Chamberlayne (b. 1668/9, d. 1723), translator and literary editor, and son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): bought

• White vine initial 'M'(agno) containing a putto with partial white vine border including birds and winged putti holding a wreath enclosing a blank space originally designed to receive a heraldic motif, at the beginning of Lactantius' Divinae institutiones., Divinae institutiones (ff. 1-162v), De ira Dei (ff. 163-179), De opificio Dei (ff. 179v-194), Epitome divinarum institutionum (ff. 194v-202v)

White vine initial 'M'(agno) containing a putto with partial white vine border including birds and winged putti holding a wreath enclosing a blank space originally designed to receive a heraldic motif, at the beginning of Lactantius' Divinae institutiones. Some

• Decorated initial 'V'(erus) with foliate decoration including acanthus extending into the margins in Aristotle's Physica., Various works including Physica (ff. 3-55v), De somno et vigilia (ff. 56-64v), De vita et morte (ff. 64v-68), imperfect

Decorated initial 'V'(erus) with foliate decoration including acanthus extending into the margins in Aristotle's Physica. Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.For a detailed list of contents, see ~Catalogue~ 1808.This manuscript is partially a palimpsest probably of a 14th-century unfinished choirbook,

• Interlace initial 'H'(ow) with zoo-anthropomorphic decoration, display capitals with foliate or zoomorphic features, and a sketch of the Virgin and Child, at the beginning of a grammatical treatise., A collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts

(see Thomson 1979), which suggests that the manuscript was made in Southern England.Notes added by later readers on ff. 47v-48v.? John Ouerindon de Multon: his inscription (f. 48v).Johannes She<...>: his inscription (f. 48v)Henry Worsley (b.1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript