• null, Gospel Lectionary for the liturgical year starting from the lesson for Easter Sunday

Marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish (ff. 1, 49, 149). Headpiece with vine scroll decoration in colours on a gold ground, partially mutilated, with title and initial in gold (f. 1). Subsequent headpieces decorated in red ink. Large and small red

• Miniature of Boniface VIII delivering the Liber Sextus, at the beginning of Liber Sextus Decretalium., Liber Sextus Decretalium and Extravagantes with Apparatus ad Sextum

Includes three separately written parts:1. Iohannes Andreae (b. c. 1270-1275, d. 1348), Apparatus ad Sextum (ff. 1 - 113v);2. Liber Sextus Decretalium (ff. 115-204v), a canonical collection compiled under order of Boniface VIII by Guillaume de Mandagot, bishop of Embrun,

• Illuminated headpiece decorated with a foliate pattern on a gold ground, (the right hand portion replaced with a similar pattern in red) and illuminated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John, with a marginal inscription in Ottoman Turkish., Gospel Lectionary for the liturgical year starting from the lesson for Easter Sunday

Ottoman Turkish. Marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish (ff. 1, 49, 149). Headpiece with vine scroll decoration in colours on a gold ground, partially mutilated, with title and initial in gold (f. 1). Subsequent headpieces decorated in red ink. Large and

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with penwork decoration in brown and red (f. 1v). Small initials in plain red, some with brown penwork decoration. Capital letters at the beginning of a line

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with penwork decoration in brown and red (f. 1v). Small initials in plain red, some with brown penwork decoration. Capital letters at the beginning of a line

• null, Computus manual with commentary

a contemporary hand (ff. 109v-110). 1 large decorated initial in red (f. 2). Diagrams. Computus manual with commentary Inscribed 'Will(e)m Ballon 1603' (f. 39).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane

• Puzzle initial, Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace)

books signed by Richard III: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 1. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 20v). Large and smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing.

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(enricus) enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn against a background of the royal colours., Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke

Henry VIII, after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became queen in March 1533: her heraldic device of an imperial falcon (f. 1); see Carley 2000 and 2004).The Old Royal Library: 1542 Westminster

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with interlace patterns within full-page rectangular frames of gold and

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

Ireland's Distinctiones. Another leaf from the calendar of Part 1 is Sloane 1044 f. 78. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 5). 1 small initial in red with blue pen-flourishing (f.

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Miniature illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

cornucopiae, dolphins, sphinxes, masks, trophies and heraldic decoration, in colours and gold, at the beginning of texts or books (ff. 1, 17, 26v-27 [miniature f. 26v, accompanying border f. 27], 37, 47v, 59, 73v, 88, 101v, 115, 131v, 148v, 164,

• Puzzle and flourished initials., Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis heretice

puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis

• Puzzle initial., Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis heretice

puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis

• Decorated initial at the beginning of the canon of the mass., Cistercian Missal, imperfect

or in red with blue penwork decoration, at the canon of the mass (ff. 115v-116). 1 large initial in blue with penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red, green, or blue, some with penwork decoration, 3 with decoration in

• Genealogie., The Pedigree and arms of the family of Las Casas

17 lots were purchased subsequently for £2 9s. 6d. (Egerton MSS 710-730). 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 2). Genealogy, in colours and gold (f. 50). 11 large historiated initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 3,

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Nicolai's Antidotarium, and explicit of Rhasis' opera, dated 1327., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

116v, 125, 134v). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials (1 line) in plain red or blue. Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts Dated 1327: 'Explicit liber rasys.

• Puzzle initials 'I'(n) and 'C'(reator), at the beginning of Rhasis's Liber Almansoris., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

116v, 125, 134v). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials (1 line) in plain red or blue. Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts Dated 1327: 'Explicit liber rasys.

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Nicolai's Antidotarium., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

116v, 125, 134v). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials (1 line) in plain red or blue. Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts Dated 1327: 'Explicit liber rasys.

• Puzzle initials 'I'(n) and 'C'(reator), at the beginning of Rhasis's Liber Almansoris., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

116v, 125, 134v). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials (1 line) in plain red or blue. Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts Dated 1327: 'Explicit liber rasys.