• Calendar page for December with added obits of Richard, duke of York, and Edward Bourchier, both killed at the battle of Wakefield (30th December 1460), 'Obitus Rica[rdi] Ducis Ebor[is] / Anno D[omi]ni Mill[es]imo cccc mo / Sexagesimo / Edwardus Bourgchier / filius d[omi]ne Isabelle comi/tisse Essex[ensis] et Sororis / eiusdem duciis, obiit eisdem / die et anno suprascript[is]'., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

famule tue', and for deceased parents, 15th century (ff. 133v-134).A fifteenth century reader numbered the Psalms in the margins.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. December London England, S. (London?)

• Decorated initial 'W'(hen)., Testament and The reignes of the kyngis of England, A Treatise between Information and Truth; On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland; Le assemble de dyeus; Descent of the Lords Percy

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial John Lydgate, William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris London England, S. E. (London?)

• Added page of a large historiated and illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a tree of Jesse, roundels or half-roundels of the six days of Creation, mounted animals jousting, and David with a slingshot and Goliath, with heraldic arms in the left margin, inserted before the beginning of the New Testament., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Pen-flourished initial 'T'(he book), with a marginal extension, at the beginning of Matthew., New Testament, in the earlier Wycliffite version, with a table of lections according to the use of Salisbury

Royal Appendix 70, no. 62 (see Warner and Gilson, 1921, p. 15).Robert Scott (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller.Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts

• Miniature of the translator of the Horologium (Jehan de Souhaube) kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and angels, and large initial in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border with ivy at the beginning of the text., L'Orloge de sapience (index Horloge de Sapience; Horologium Eternae Sapientiae)

couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (pasted on the inside of the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 66, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured initial 'E' with pen-flourished decoration., Fragment from Rolle's 'Incendium amoris', Book 1, chapters 7-8, on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Miniature of the Lover's Confession, of the Lover kneeling before the priest Genus., Confessio amantis (begins imperfectly)

(note on 3rd flyleaf [f. i]).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Lover's Confession Herman Scheerre John Gower England, S. E. (London)

• Decorated initial., Confessio amantis (begins imperfectly)

(note on 3rd flyleaf [f. i]).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Decorated initial Herman Scheerre John Gower England, S. E. (London)

• Decorated initial., Confessio amantis (begins imperfectly)

(note on 3rd flyleaf [f. i]).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Decorated initial Herman Scheerre John Gower England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of ownership inscription., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• null, Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels, in colours on gold grounds, many

• Detail of a miniature of the translator of the Horologium (Jehan de Souhaube) kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and angels, and large initial in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border with ivy at the beginning of the text., L'Orloge de sapience (index Horloge de Sapience; Horologium Eternae Sapientiae)

couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (pasted on the inside of the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 66, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by