• Coloured drawing of David with a harp and Saul on horseback, at the beginning of an introductory hymn., Psalter

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• White vine initial 'C'(yrus), at the beginning of book 3., Cyropaedia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'A'(d), at the beginning of Johannes de Deo's Flores legum super cavillationibus., Flores legum super cavillationibus, Secretum secretorum, and other juridical or theological texts (incomplete)

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

• Lower part of the three-sided border with a lion, at the beginning of Johannes de Deo's Flores legum super cavillationibus., Flores legum super cavillationibus, Secretum secretorum, and other juridical or theological texts (incomplete)

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

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Historiated initial 'L' of the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (bottom miniature)., Cutting from a Gradual

(verso). Cutting from a Gradual Presented by John E. Leary, violin and pianoforte instructor, of 59 Hazelville Road, Hornsey Lane, [London] N, 1930: his business card attached to the mount (f. 1). Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds Italy, N.

• Miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems, with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown and supported by two white lions, and a foliate initial 'D'(es nouvelles), introducing the poem Des nouvelles d'Albyon., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demands d'amour; Le liver dot grace entire sure le fait du government d'un prince

Miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems, with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown and supported by two

• Detail of a miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demands d'amour; Le liver dot grace entire sure le fait du government d'un prince

Detail of a miniature of a view of London with the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with duke Charles inside writing his poems. Includes the Poems of Charles, duke of Orléans, written during his captivity in England (1415-1440)

• Miniature of Nebuchadnezzar in bed with the Image of precious metals at the beginning of the prologue to Gower's Confessio amantis., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

• Miniature of Nebuchadnezzar in bed with the Image of precious metals, and decorated initial 'O'(f hem) with acanthus leaves and foliate feathering extending into the margins at the beginning of the prologue to Gower's Confessio amantis., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

• Miniature of the Lover kneeling before the Confessor in a landscape at the beginning of book 1 of Gower's Confessio amantis, with an acanthus frame surrounding the miniature and decorated initial 'I'( may)., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

• Puzzle initial 'E'(duuardus) at the beginning of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I, Statutes of England (index Statuta Angliae, Statute book) preceded by (ff. 1-7v) a list of contents

of Harefield: with his armorial bookplate engraved with his motto and the legend 'Sr. George Cooke / of the Inner-Temple, London. / Chief Prothonotary of the Court / of Common-Pleas Westminster / 1727'.Francis Hargrave (b. 1740/41, d. 1821), legal writer.Purchased

• Detail of decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, to 1285

(f. 2).Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (inside upper

• Tinted drawing of king Henry VI on horseback., Coats of Arms in the time of Henry VI

Tinted drawing of king Henry VI on horseback. The London shields include those of Wyfolde or Wywold, Gregory and Norman, Lord Mayors in 1450, 1451, and 1453; John Derby, sheriff of London in 1446; John Stockton and William Stoker, Lord

• Miniature of Christ's Presentation in the Temple, in the left column; miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary, in the right column., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Miniatures of the Harrowing of Hell, Moses parting the Red Sea, Abraham being rescued by an angel, and Lot and his daughters fleeing Sodom., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Miniatures of the Harrowing of Hell, and a horned Moses parting the Red Sea., Speculum humanae salvationis

notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff.