• Detail of the lower margin, with initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

to f. 62v.Vertical catchwords. 1 large initial 'C'(um) in blue and purple on a gold ground, and arms in colours and gold in the lower margin (f. 1). Plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Strategemata (index Strategematica,

• Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

Large initials in gold with pink pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with pink pen-flourishing gold, blue or with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in blue or red with red penwork decoration. Catchwords written on brown

• Detail of a miniature of monks singing a requiem, with the celebrant wearing spectacles, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

pages with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Large and small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Perhaps written for a woman: the prayer

• Miniature of David penitent, with a harp and a dog, decorated initial 'D'(omine) and foliate borders, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Inscription, 16th century (f. 1).Ownership mark dated 1640 (f. 2).The Harley Collection,

• Miniature of the Visitation, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Inscription, 16th century (f. 1).Ownership mark dated 1640 (f. 2).The Harley Collection,

• Miniature of the Burial with battle between an angel and the devil about a soul in the background, decorated initial 'D'(ilexi) and foliate borders, at the beginning of the Hours of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Inscription, 16th century (f. 1).Ownership mark dated 1640 (f. 2).The Harley Collection,

• null, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly

i recto. Large initials in blue with red flourishing and foliate infill, or red with brown flourishing and infill, at the start of texts and major divisions. Small initials similar but simpler. Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly Medieval ownership(?)

• null, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly

i recto. Large initials in blue with red flourishing and foliate infill, or red with brown flourishing and infill, at the start of texts and major divisions. Small initials similar but simpler. Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly Medieval ownership(?)

• Detail of decorated initial., Breviarum ab urbe condita

in gold with penwork decoration in an unusual green (ff. 7v, 14v, 20v, etc.). Small initials in plain red or blue. Breviarum ab urbe condita Written perhaps in 1460 by Carlo Reguardati of Nursia/Norcia: inscribed, apparently by the main scribe

• Miniature of John on Patmos, decorated initial 'I'(n) and full foliate borders, at the beginning of the Gospel Lessons., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

pages with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Large and small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Perhaps written for a woman: the prayer

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

pages with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Large and small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Perhaps written for a woman: the prayer

• Pen-flourished initials, Meditations on the Life of Christ

catchwords. Alternating initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with violet pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red (now faded). Meditations on the Life of Christ Written in 1454 by Jacobus de Parma in Bologna for Frater Gabriel, provincial vicar: colophon,

• Miniature of Christ in majesty, with the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, and the Resurrection of the Souls. Decorated initial in gold and colours, and full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Inscription, 16th century (f. 1).Ownership mark dated 1640 (f. 2).The Harley Collection,

• Miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Inscription, 16th century (f. 1).Ownership mark dated 1640 (f. 2).The Harley Collection,

• White vine border with a portrait of Horace in a roundel, two putti, an unidentified coat of arms, and a large white vine initial 'M'(ecenas)., Opera

beginning of each book (ff. 15, 24, 40, 49, 60v, 76, 92v, 107v, 115). Numerous initials in alternating red and blue. Rubrics in red. Opera Written in Ferrara in 1461: inscribed: 'Quinti Horatii Flacci, Venusini, Odarum, Sermonum, Epistolarum, Poetrieque carminum

• White vine initial 'D'(ivitias) at the beginning of the text., Various poems including Carmina, Elegiae and Catullus' Carmina

86v, 103). 3 large initials in gold on coloured panels (ff. 14v, 69v, 155). Coloured initials in alternating red or blue. Various poems including Carmina, Elegiae and Catullus' Carmina Maffeo Veggio (b. 1407, d. 1458) and Giovanni Pontani (b. 1426,

• Illuminated initial 'P'(hilopolus)., Poems (index Poemata); Laphra (a comedy)

initial in gold on a pink and green ground, 'P'(hilopolus) (f. 36v). Initials alternating in red or blue. Rubrics and protagonists names in red. Poems (index Poemata); Laphra (a comedy) Written by the author, Giovanni Mario Filelfo (b. 1426, d.

• Initial 'A'(dam) with foliate and spray decoration., Latin Brut Chronicle of England, 2nd version

additions up to 1456 (Matheson 1998). Initial with foliate and spray decoration in gold and colours (f. 2). Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Paraphs in red. Initials highlighted in yellow. Latin Brut Chronicle of England, 2nd version Written

• Miniature of monks singing a requiem, with the celebrant wearing spectacles, decorated initial 'D'(ilexi) and full foliate borders, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

pages with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Large and small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use of Paris Perhaps written for a woman: the prayer

• Flourished initial 'T'(ransacto) and coloured initials 'E' and two 'P's at the beginning of Book 4 of Eutropius's Breviarum ab urbe condita., Breviarum ab urbe condita

in gold with penwork decoration in an unusual green (ff. 7v, 14v, 20v, etc.). Small initials in plain red or blue. Breviarum ab urbe condita Written perhaps in 1460 by Carlo Reguardati of Nursia/Norcia: inscribed, apparently by the main scribe