• Badges of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elisabeth I., Book of royal arms and badges from Brute to James I

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. Tudor badges William Segar William Segar William Segar London England, S. E. (London)

• Arms and badge of James I., Book of royal arms and badges from Brute to James I

the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Arms and badge of James I William Segar William Segar William Segar London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of putti celebrating the name of Christ with the IHS monogram within an aureole flanked by musicians seated on clouds, and with a group of dancing figures below., Leaves from a liturgical manuscript

below. In f. B the figures are all female. Leaves from a liturgical manuscript Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: his sale, 16 June 1854, lot 1635: purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Miniature of female putti celebrating the name of the Virgin, with the MAR monogram within an aureole flanked by musicians seated on clouds, and below a group of dancing female figures., Leaves from a liturgical manuscript

below. In f. B the figures are all female. Leaves from a liturgical manuscript Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: his sale, 16 June 1854, lot 1635: purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Full-page frame with interlace, and words in gold and silver, before the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ec) and ivy-leaf borders incorporating a dragon, at the beginning of Bertrand de la Tour's Sermones Quadragesimales., Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his

• Display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Prologue., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Display script Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Prefatory miniature of David praying with an angel holding a sword, scourge, and skull, in an oval frame., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

(see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Psalm 1., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Display script Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Detail of the prefatory miniature of David praying with an angel holding a sword, scourge, and skull, in an oval frame., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

(see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Prefatory miniature of the arms of Henry Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, with his motto, 'Virtutis laus actio', and his monogram., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Arms of Henry Fitzalan, earl of Arundel Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Detail of display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Psalm 1., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7743).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Display script Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London) and France

• Miniature in colours and gold, of the martyrdom of Bartholomew with the saint being flayed alive., Leaf from a Collectar, Use of Rome

intercessione salvemus. Amen'. Leaf from a Collectar, Use of Rome Inscribed on verso 'No. 2'.Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: his sale, 16 June 1854, lot 1635; purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Front cover of brown leather with gold tooling, the arms of George II and the date, 1757., Constituciones artis gemetrie secundum Euclyde: a poem on the craft of Masonry

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6516.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page., Constituciones artis gemetrie secundum Euclyde: a poem on the craft of Masonry

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6516.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page., Constituciones artis gemetrie secundum Euclyde: a poem on the craft of Masonry

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6516.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'P'(ascales) at the beginning of Sedulius's Carmen paschale, with simple red decoration in the bowl of the letter., 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

• Decorated initials., Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini, prefatory poem, and poema coniugis ad uxorem, Poems (ff. 1; 22-23v)

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

• null, 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

• Miniature of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy receiving the book from Jean Duchesne, with a full border including a space left for a coat of arms, at the beginning of the prologue., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Charles the Bold Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)