• Illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text., Letter to Henry VII

(f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail from the full border of a bird, the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, and a grotesque., Letter to Henry VII

oratio' (f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Border Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Calendar page for July with a miniature of a man mowing hay., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 3-9) and litany (ff. 92v-94v)

etc., suggesting a Bruges or Ghent origin.The manuscript may have been made for the English market since the litany includes Swithun, Edmund, Edburga, Edith, and other English saints (ff. 92v-94v).Change of hands at f. 88v. 11 miniatures in colours and

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) with standing male and female figures in front of a building and full foliate bar border., The Knight of the Tower, imperfect

manuscript is the only known surviving copy of the earlier Middle English translation of ~The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry~ by Geoffery La Tour-Landry. (The later Middle English translation was printed by Caxton in 1484.) Historiated initial in

• Initials with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of 'The Chasting of God's Children'., A collection of devotional treatises, including 'The Chasting of God's Children' (ff. 1-100), Bridget's 'Revelations', in English translation (ff. 104-109v), and Flete's 'De remedis contra temptationes', in two different English translations (ff. 109v-123, 142v-152)

devotional treatises, including 'The Chasting of God's Children' (ff. 1-100), Bridget's 'Revelations', in English translation (ff. 104-109v), and Flete's 'De remedis contra temptationes', in two different English translations (ff. 109v-123, 142v-152) Thomas Granger (d. 1732), clerk to the committee of

• Miniature of the Deposition, decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Text page with large opening decorated initial 'O', and a full foliate border with birds among the vines., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Miniature of the martyrdom of a nimbed tonsured monk, praying before an altar, with four soldiers approaching from behind with raised swords, and a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Miniature of Christ carrying the cross, followed by the Virgin Mary and two other nimbed women., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Miniature of the Entombment of Christ, with a full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Reading for the third and fourth Sunday after Easter, taken from the Epistle of James., Readings from the Gospels and the Epistles (Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an) (index Lectionary)

for each Sunday in the year. The Gospels are in French, the expositions, in English. According to Carley, the commentary text was translated from French into English by George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, for his sister Anne (Carley 2004, p. 129).The

• Initial 'S'(alve me) with acanthus leaf decoration, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Commentary on the Psalms (imperfect, starting in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 9 and ending in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 146)

in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 9 and ending in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 146) English annotations, 16th century (ff. 17, 23, 74v, 119v).William Reynolds, 17th century: (signature, ff. 60, 115, and partial copy of

• Pen-flourished initials 'A'(ffter) and 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its shelf-mark in pencil 'XI: 7: 9' (f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Pen-flourished initials Bonaventura, in an English translation England

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its shelf-mark in pencil 'XI: 7: 9' (f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial Bonaventura, in an English translation England

• Decorated initials 'I'(n) and 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Roger of Hovenden's Chronicle., Chronicle, including a prophecy in English

or blue paraph marks. 1 diagram (f. 118). Paraphs in red or green. Guide letters. Chronicle, including a prophecy in English The Cistercian abbey of St Mary and St Edward, Netley, Hampshire (see Ker 1964 p. 133).? Thomas Howard (b.

• Pen-flourished initial 'A'(ffter)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its shelf-mark in pencil 'XI: 7: 9' (f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail Bonaventura, in an English translation England

• Pen-flourished initial 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its shelf-mark in pencil 'XI: 7: 9' (f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail Bonaventura, in an English translation England

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its shelf-mark in pencil 'XI: 7: 9' (f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail Bonaventura, in an English translation England

• Miniature of David in penitence, and decorated initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Prayer Book

branches, in gold and purple. All text pages framed in gold. Rubrics in gold. Prayer Book Apparently designed for an English owner: inscribed by Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey: see Backhouse 1994.Inscriptions in French, 16th-century: 'en priant a saintte George…',

• Decorated initial 'O' (Ihesu Christi eterna dulcedo) with full floriate border, at the beginning of the Orationes S. Brigitte., Devotional book (Hours of the Virgin) with a calendar, imperfect at the beginning and elsewhere

Brygandyn, clerk: sixteenth-century additions to the calendar (obit of his wife's death in 1536) (f. 3); and added prayers in English and annotations in his hand (e.g., f. 70) (see Wright 1972).Sir William Collier: inscription recording his gift of the