• Text page with symbols of a cow (for 'Rector), two arrows aimed in different directions (for 'Firmus') and an aquatic snake or dolphin twining itself around an anchor (for 'Celer'), with a caption reading 'Tarde Festina.', Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

an aquatic snake or dolphin twining itself around an anchor (for 'Celer'), with a caption reading 'Tarde Festina.' ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur'

• Full-page miniature of spring, with Apollo on his chariot, a cupid, and a sleeping boy in an enclosed garden., Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

cupid, and a sleeping boy in an enclosed garden. ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis constare'

• Full-page miniature of winter, with Neptune in his sea-chariot, driven by a dolphin, and Eolus depicted as an old man., Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

by a dolphin, and Eolus depicted as an old man. ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis

• Full-page miniature of autumn, with a woman (probably Diana) picking apples., Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

woman (probably Diana) picking apples. ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis constare' (f. 3).Written in an

• Full-page emblematic miniature with symbols and an inscription reading 'Eterno deo virtutu[?] glorie etatis regi iustitis ac Pietatis habunda[n]ti mundi rectori religionis n?c Triu[m]phas cum laude sacrum hoc dicaturn est'., Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

iustitis ac Pietatis habunda[n]ti mundi rectori religionis n?c Triu[m]phas cum laude sacrum hoc dicaturn est'. ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura:

• Full-page emblematic miniature of symbols in a room with two arches, and an inscription reading 'Iustitia[?] ama[n]s ab omnib[us] diligitu. Divina amore aete[r]nas mo? Renascitur. nobilis patientur prudenterque cordis imper[ver?] Tener et est liberirate ornatus'., Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

omnib[us] diligitu. Divina amore aete[r]nas mo? Renascitur. nobilis patientur prudenterque cordis imper[ver?] Tener et est liberirate ornatus'. ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f.

• Full-page emblematic miniature of a wreath with symbols inside and an inscription reading 'Invictus rex tuus: iustitia Opibus : fama: imperio : pace Omnibus potentior.', Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions

'Invictus rex tuus: iustitia Opibus : fama: imperio : pace Omnibus potentior.' ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek and Trojan armies., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the murder of Achilles., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the theft of the Palladium., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• null, Ab urbe condita: first (ff. 1-113), third (ff. 113-213), and fourth (ff. 214-290v) decades

Most of the rest of the decoration consists of drawings of birds and other figures in the margins (e.g. f. 1), on the initials (e.g. f. 92v), or attached to descenders of the lowest line of writing (e.g. f. 37).

• 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

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

Surrey' (f. 1). 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

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

paper fragment with text.ff. 144-45 are parchment flyleaves with added notes in French in a late 14th-century hand. 1 diagram and 1 table in brown and red ink (f. 212v). 2 historiated initials in colours and gold with partial borders

• Text in two columns surrounded by a full-page border inset with roundels containing insects., 2 leaves from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a hunting party filling the space at the end of the text including the borders, in colours and gold (f. 1v). 1 full historiated border illustrating Treachery, with some

• Text on the vice of treachery, surrounded by scenes of murder in the top, right and bottom margins., 2 leaves from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a hunting party filling the space at the end of the text including the borders, in colours and gold (f. 1v). 1 full historiated border illustrating Treachery, with some

• Text in two columns surrounded by a full-page foliate border inset with roundels containing insects in the lower margin., 2 leaves from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a hunting party filling the space at the end of the text including the borders, in colours and gold (f. 1v). 1 full historiated border illustrating Treachery, with some

• Miniature of a hunting party, with birds around the margins., 2 leaves from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (index Cocharelli Treatise)

Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. 1 miniature of a hunting party filling the space at the end of the text including the borders, in colours and gold (f. 1v). 1 full historiated border illustrating Treachery, with some

• Illuminated initial 'A'(s the) in gold and red, at the beginning of the text., The pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise, imperfect

manuscript includes only 24.Quire signatures on the first folio of each quire. 1 full-page ink drawing of Edward VI receiving the book from the author (f. 7v). 1 initial in colours and gold of a crowned Tudor rose, at the

• Historiated miniature of Agnes Enthroned flanked by two musician angels, below (left) the saint's statue holding out its finger to receive an emerald ring from Paulinus, a priest of the church of Saint Agnes who wished to be allowed to marry, and (right) Agnes appearing to relatives maintaining a vigil besides her tomb. Historiated full-page border in colours and gold, of foliage and birds with three medallions in the lower margin containing two scenes of Agnes surviving being thrown into flames at the order of Aspasius and a male and female member of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese kneeling in prayer. Beneath the miniature is a single four-line red stave, musical notation and a single line of text in gold capitals 'Sancta Agnese da dio'., Leaf of a Hymnal (index laudario), containing part of the hymns to Agnes and Anthony

da dio'. Italian cutting.The present leaf was originally f. 1 in an album with eighty-nine other cuttings. To see this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 18196, f. 1. To see the album of cuttings order Add. 18196,