• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initial 'V'(estra) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium., De disciplina scholarium, with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.23’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and part of the border decoration around the two columns, at the beginning of Johannes de Hesdinio's Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job., Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum., Sermones de tempore per annum

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.1’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Ownership inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.1’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rima), at the beginning of the second volume of Ludolphus de Saxonia's Vita Christi., Vita Christi (pars II)

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.3’, f. ii).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a drawing of a pope and two women., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• null, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Text page., The Siege of Thebes

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Text page., The Siege of Thebes

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels; and the historiated initial 'C'(um) of David playing the harp with two angels, at the beginning of Psalm 4., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 4. 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 Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of a miniature of Alban holding a Tau-cross, presenting kneeling duke Humfrey of Gloucester (or perhaps Henry VI), with a scroll reading 'Pietas tua domine operetur in me', to Christ as Man of Sorrows and figure of the Trinity, beneath the dove of the Holy Spirit and the Father, with two angels., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

two angels. 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 Public Library, Grey 4

• Decorated initial 'W'(e), and a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower: 'Forasmutche as you have desired so simple a woman to wrighte in so worthye a booke (good) mayster lieutenaunte therefore I shall as a frende desyre you and as a christian require you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not [on the next page] to take the worde of trewthe utterlye oute of youre mouthe...', Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

£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. Inscription by Lady Jane Grey London England, S. (London)

• Puzzle initial 'T'(hese), at the beginning of Exodus, and pen-flourished initial 'A'(ftir), at the beginning of chapter 2 of Exodus., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job), with glosses

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no 6397.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of Theyer's library assessed by William Beveridge and William Jane in 1678, Royal Appendix,

• Historiated initial 'I' of two Creation scenes: the Creation of the Sky and of the Earth. The Creator is represented with two faces., Cutting from a Gradual

the ?figure and Prudence ? / and Pisano south gate of St Giovanni Florence'.Walter Benjamin Tiffin (b. 1795, d. 1877), London art dealer and publisher: purchased from him by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum on

• Historiated initial ?'O' of Christ giving two books to a kneeling king. Below drolleries of two winged putti musicians., Cutting from a choir book

'Matteo di Cambio? / ?la F. XXIV of Rossini / XIV cent' (f. 4v).Walter Benjamin Tiffin (b. 1795, d. 1877), London art dealer and publisher: purchased from him by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum on

• Music., Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry