• Miniature of the English army at the walls of Troyes, with two heralds summoning, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 20 of book 1., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 20 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list

• Detail of a miniature of the English army at the wall of Troyes, with two heralds summoning, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 20 of book 1., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 20 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list

• Miniature of a capture of a bastion at Troyes, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 21 of book 1., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 21 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list

• Miniature of the death of Charles V, king of France, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 22 of book 1., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 22 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list

• Miniature of the audience of the Master of the Staple with duke Albert, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 31 of book 3., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 31 of book 3. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1-9v). According

• Miniature of Edmund Langley remonstrating with the king of Portugal, with a full border containing grotesque drolleries and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of book 4., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

king of Portugal, with a full border containing grotesque drolleries and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of book 4. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of

• Detail of the full border containing grotesque drolleries (a monkey, bird and a man) and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of book 4., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of book 4. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1-9v). According to

• Miniature of a battle between Portuguese and English army and a French vanguard of the King of Castile, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 14 of book 4., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the King of Castile, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 14 of book 4. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

• Detail of a miniature of a battle between Portuguese and English army and a French vanguard of the King of Castile, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 14 of book 4., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the King of Castile, with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 14 of book 4. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

• Miniature of the coronation procession of Richard I., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

Miniature of the coronation procession ofRichard I. Contains the first volume of seven of the third edition of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre of Jean de Wavrin (b. 1399/1400, d. c. 1473/4), which was intended to continue the

• Detail of a miniature of the coronation procession of Richard I., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

Detail of a miniature of the coronation procession ofRichard I. Contains the first volume of seven of the third edition of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre of Jean de Wavrin (b. 1399/1400, d. c. 1473/4), which was intended

• Detail of a miniature of the coronation procession of Richard I., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

Detail of a miniature of the coronation procession ofRichard I. Contains the first volume of seven of the third edition of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre of Jean de Wavrin (b. 1399/1400, d. c. 1473/4), which was intended

• Miniature of the coronation procession of Richard I., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

Miniature of the coronation procession ofRichard I. Contains the first volume of seven of the third edition of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre of Jean de Wavrin (b. 1399/1400, d. c. 1473/4), which was intended to continue the

• Miniature of the Flight to Egypt, decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full foliate border, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use fo Tournai

Miniature of the Flight to Egypt, decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full foliate border, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin. The missing miniature before f. 52 at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the

• Miniature of the Funeral service, decorated initial 'D'(ilexi), and full foliate border, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use fo Tournai

Miniature of the Funeral service, decorated initial 'D'(ilexi), and full foliate border, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead. The missing miniature before f. 52 at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin is bound

• Decorated initials in the cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Pipewell, Northamptonshire., Cartulary of Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire

of books and manuscripts: inscribed ‘Bibl. Astlei Arm.’ (f. i verso); his arms (centre of the upper and lower covers).18th-century pagination, 1-296, and title page on parchment and list of contents on paper (ff. 2-7).Certified copy of the surrender

• Decorated initial 'C'(onverte), and trompe l'oeil border, at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours (begins imperfectly)

trompe l'oeil border, at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin. Contemporary sketch of the Virgin (blank leaf after f. 97).No calendar; Hours of the Virgin (f. 3) and Office of the Dead (f. 98) begin imperfect.

• Flourished initial 'U'(rhanus)., Cartulary of the Augustinian priory, Brinkburn, Northumbria, in eight capitula, imperfect

and landowner, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th duke of Norfolk, in 1630: according to a note in English (f. 3v).Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books

• Decorated initial 'O' with interlace decoration and partial foliate border., Cartulary of the Augustianian priory of Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, with table of contents (ff. 2-25)

red. Outlines of initials in blue and/or red (ff. 59v, 69). 5 decorated catchwords (ff. 73v, 81v, 89v, 97v, 105v). Cartulary of the Augustianian priory of Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, with table of contents (ff. 2-25) The Augustianian priory of Bradenstoke, Wiltshire,

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of the prologue of the statutes of Venice., 'Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum', the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same

1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the