• Initial-word panels decorated with a floral border inhabited by a putto, a bird and a lion head., Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1

127v, 131v, 137). Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. 1 micrography (f. 18v). Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1 Jacob ben Solomon: inscribed with his name (f. 1).Marchion: inscribed with his name (ff.

• Initial-word panel decorated with a floral border, at the beginning of the Haggadah., Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1

127v, 131v, 137). Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. 1 micrography (f. 18v). Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1 Jacob ben Solomon: inscribed with his name (f. 1).Marchion: inscribed with his name (ff.

• Initial-word panel decorated with a floral border, and two crowns, at the beginning of the poem ~Keter Malkhut~ (The crown of kingship) by Solomon ibn Gabirol., Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1

127v, 131v, 137). Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. 1 micrography (f. 18v). Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1 Jacob ben Solomon: inscribed with his name (f. 1).Marchion: inscribed with his name (ff.

• Puzzle initial., Travels (index Itinerarium)

19s. 6d. (Egerton MSS 628-709), and a further 17 lots were purchased subsequently for £2 9s. 6d. (Egerton MSS 710-730). 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 63). Small initials in blue with red foliate

• Miniature of Christ in Majesty of a lost Missal., Added miniature

of a lost Missal. Marginal sketches and notes in French (ff. 27, 61). 1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold. Added miniature Part 1: Claude de Seyssel (b. c. 1450/55, d. 1520), jurist, advisor to the

• Armorial page., Histoire des guerres des romains

notes in French (ff. 27, 61). 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for the prologue and the first chapter (ff. 7,

• Miniature of a battle scene, decorated initial 'L'(e) and foliate borders., Histoire des guerres des romains

borders. Marginal sketches and notes in French (ff. 27, 61). 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for the prologue and the

• Decorated initial., Epistolae, imperfect (ff. 1-47v); Auluaria sive Querolus (ff. 72-86v)

Decorated initial. From ff. 48, large and small initials in red or brown, some with red or light brown highlighting. Highlighting of letters in red. Epistolae, imperfect (ff. 1-47v); Auluaria sive Querolus (ff. 72-86v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• Illuminated initial 'C'(ai[us])., Epistolae (index Letters)

on the verso.There is a pastedown with an inscription on f. 1. Ruled in hardpoint. Quire signatures: A, B, etc. Written in Italy, possibly Venice c. 1420, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian

• Decorated initial 'T'(obie) with foliate border., Job and Tobit in the later Wycliffite version

and pink large initials on a gold background with a three-sided foliate border (ff. 1, 47). Gold initial and text have been rubbed away (f. 1). Large blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each chapter. Job and

• Decorated initial with zoomorphic motifs., Cartulary of Waltham Abbey, Essex

Robert Fuller and divided into 5 volumes. This was the first volume, as suggested by a 18th-cent. note (f. 1). Its contents relate to the abbey's rights and privileges in churches, manors and forests and include numerous royal and episcopal

• Puzzle initial 'A'(me) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Ars grammatica

(f. 1). Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to the Harleys on 20 January 1721/22 (f. 1; see

• Decorated headpiece and initial., Basil's 'De legendis libris gentilium' (ff. 1-11v), Isocrates's 'Ad Nicoclem', 'Ad Demonicum' and 'Nicocles' (ff. 13-20, 21-28v, 29-37v), and Plutarch's 'De curiositate' and 'De adulatore et amico' (ff. 39-46, 46v-72v)

Decorated headpiece and initial. A table of contents in Latin (f. 2* verso).ff. 1-20 are palimpsest in Latin.ff. 12 and 38 are blank. Decorated headpiece and initial in red (f. 21). Titles and initials in red. Basil's 'De legendis

• Headpiece with interlace and foliate decoration and initial with foliate decoration, Miscellany of works attributed to Dionysius Areopagite with paraphrases by Pachymeres, including 'De caelesti hierarchia' (ff. 7v-62), 'De divinis nominibus' (ff. 62-143v), 'De ecclesiastica hierarchia' (ff. 143v-191v), and Letters (ff. 198v-223)

(Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Coll. Agen. Soc. Jesu Cat. Insc' (f. 1; see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer,

• Headpiece with foliate and geometric decoration and decorated initial., 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4

geometric and foliate decoration, decorated initials and titles in brown (ff. 1, 18v, 54v, 76v, 102v). Decorated initials, rubrics and marginalia in brown. 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4 Written by Georgios Tribizias, a Greek priest in Venice (ff. 1-146; see

• Puzzle initial 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and border decoration around the two columns, at the beginning of Johannes de Hesdinio's Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job., Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job

Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in blue and red, accompanied by a border decoration in red and blue around the two columns (f. 1). Small initials in red with

• Puzzle initial 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and part of the border decoration around the two columns, at the beginning of Johannes de Hesdinio's Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job., Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job

Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in blue and red, accompanied by a border decoration in red and blue around the two columns (f. 1). Small initials in red with

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum., Sermones de tempore per annum

s(an)c(t)e marie in Eb(ir)bach' (ff. 1, 145v), and mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as '7 [sign after 'Z'] 1' or 'a29' (see Palmer 1998, pp. 258, 262).Inscribed 'Z 140' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a

• Ownership inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

s(an)c(t)e marie in Eb(ir)bach' (ff. 1, 145v), and mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as '7 [sign after 'Z'] 1' or 'a29' (see Palmer 1998, pp. 258, 262).Inscribed 'Z 140' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a

• Detail: initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the section on Hanukkah., Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1

127v, 131v, 137). Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. 1 micrography (f. 18v). Festival prayer book (~mahzor~), Italian rite, volume 1 Jacob ben Solomon: inscribed with his name (f. 1).Marchion: inscribed with his name (ff.