• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with David playing a harp and foliate borders, at the beginning of the Psalms., Breviary, Use of Sarum, including a Psalter with a litany (ff. 181-243v)

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. David London England, S. (London?)

• Illuminated initial 'K'(yrie) and marginal drawing of a fox and an ape, at the beginning of the litany., Breviary, Use of Sarum, including a Psalter with a litany (ff. 181-243v)

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. Marginal drawing London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of historiated initial 'B'(eatus)with David harping at the beginning of the Psalms., Breviary, Use of Sarum, including a Psalter with a litany (ff. 181-243v)

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. David London England, S. (London?)

• Initial with foliate designs, initials with penwork flourishing, and full border., Breviary, Use of Sarum, including a Psalter with a litany (ff. 181-243v)

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. Illuminated initials London England, S. (London?)

• Pen-flourished initials 'F'(rater) and 'H'(enrici)., Cartulary made for Walter Lynton (index Walter de Lynton), master of the hospital of the Virgin Mary and Lazarus, Burton Lazars, Leicestershire

its cartulary, made for Lynton in 1402 (f. 5) (see Davis no. 491; cf no. 90).The hospital of St-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London, a subordinate hospital of Burton Lazars, Leicestershire (see Wright 1972).Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), book collector: binding with

• Detail of a coloured drawing with knights jousting, including Tristan, designated by an inscribed 'Ti'., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Table and decorated initial., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Detail of table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• White vine initial 'Q'(uoniam)., Ethica (index Ethics)(ff. 3-111); Aretinus' epistola ad hugonem medicum (possibly added; ff. 111-112v); Economica (index Economics)(ff. 113-132v)

Brienne family (index Lomenie de Brienne): sold by the son of Louis-Henri de Loménie (b. 1635, d. 1698) through the London bookseller James Woodman on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley, sale dated 28 April 1724, lot 2403 (see Wright