• Initial 'D'(ominus) in Hugh of Langres's Commentaries on the Psalms., Commentarius in Psalmos (ff. 1-212v); Interpretatione alphabeti hebraici (ff. 213)

and politician.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. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Binding decorated with blind-stamped tools, depicting King David harping, a lion, a griffin, and dragon and foliage motifs., Historia scholastica, part, and Sermons

(inside lower cover); 'suwerk' (f. 102v).Book plate with 'JS' (inside upper cover). Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought in March 1834 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Decorated initial., De officiis

and politician.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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno) with pen-flourishing., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

and politician.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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum

• Diagrams of the eclipses of the moon, from Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium., Kalendarium

and politician.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. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Initial 'D'(ominus) in Hugh of Langres's Commentaries on the Psalms., Commentarius in Psalmos (ff. 1-212v); Interpretatione alphabeti hebraici (ff. 213)

and politician.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. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of puzzle initial., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

and politician.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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of puzzle initial., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

and politician.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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail: decorated catchword., Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor')

42) 5 decorated catchwords (ff. 69v, 77v, 84v, 90v, 98v). Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor') Hayyim, the scribe: the word ~hayyim~ is decorated on ff. 10, 31, 37v, 67, 103v,

• Miniature of Christ and angels playing trumpets and censing the altar, illustrating Revelation 8:2-4, and a miniature of an angel playing the trumpet and a fire coming from heavens on earth, illustrating the description of the First Trumpet (Revelation 8: 7)., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Distribution of Trumpets and First Trumpet London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia

• Zoomorphic initial 'V'(erba) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of Jeremiah., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Numbers 11, attached to the cover, 9th century (see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734)).Inscribed 'Liber Petri Alfusi', referred to the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Text page., Miscellany of sermons, treatises and Gospel harmonies, including Unum ex quattuor; Allegoriae super Novum Testamentum; Diatessaron (fragment)

inscribed in a 15th-century hand, 'Constat frater Joh[a]nn[es] Tame de ordine aug[ustin'] London et impigno[ratur] henr[ico] ponsthorp p' (f. 189).Johannes Tame of the Convent of Austin friars, London (see above and Ker 1964).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Text page., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border, at the beginning of Judges., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Miniature of a centaur holding a snake; below, hedgehogs collecting grapes on their spines., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Miniature of a swallow, at the beginning of the entry for swallow., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Miniature of two serpents fighting, at the beginning of the entry for 'vipera'., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Text page with a crowned head of a bird in the margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6606.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of a king ordering to kill the Witnesses, illustrating Revelation 11: 7., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Death of the Witnesses London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia