• Miniature of a battle at the beginning of Book 2., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

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. Battle Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of a judgement scene at the beginning of book 4, as a man is being put into prison., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

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. Judgement Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of Christine writing her book; on the right, an armed female., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Christine de Pizan Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Text; miniature of a judgement scene at the beginning of book 4, as a man is being put into prison., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

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. Judgement Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a miniature of Christine writing her book; on the right, an armed female., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Christine de Pizan Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a miniature of a king and bishop with soldiers., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. King, bishop and soldiers Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Text; miniature of a judgement scene at the beginning of book 4, as a man is being put into prison., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

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. Judgement Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)

• Historiated initial 'C'(um) depicting a layman in profile (Priscian?) holding a book, at the beginning of Priscian's Grammatica maior., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Initial 'D' with pen-flourishing, in Priscian's Grammatica maior., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Illuminated initials, in Sedulius's Carmen paschale., Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Detail of historiated initial., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Detail of decorated initial., Grammatica maior

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7945: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12851, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector

• Historiated initial 'D' or 'O' of Christ Disputing with the Merchants. The robe of the figure to the right is inscribed 'A. P. S. VITV. SI?S'., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal)

/ in 1838' (f. fly-leaf of album).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Evangelist portrait of Luke, with his symbol, the ox, above., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Historiated initial at the incipit to Luke, 'Quoniam Quidem,' depicting an angel appearing to Zachary., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Detail of a nativity horoscope of Henry VI, 1421., Astronomical/astrological compendium, including a nativity horoscope for Henry VI (the 'Codex Holbrookensis')

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller.Purchased from Rodd in 1841 with other manuscripts from Halliwell-Phillipps's collection by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund

• The upper pastedown, with a typical Bury press-mark, '.J. 7.' ('J' is for Jerome). To the right of this is an inscription headed 'A book of St. Edmund, in which are contained', followed by a note on the contents., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

(b. 1642, d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its

• Detail of a miniature of Edmund's body being taken to London., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

Edmund's body being taken to London. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin Fremund from