• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two ladies outside a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

of two ladies outside a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and added on

• Coloured drawings, of Lot's wife, the Ark, and Egyptian soldiers being drowned in the Red Sea., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a church, probably Barcelona: inscribed 'Scriptus fuit liber iste per petrum fort mercatorem In Civitate barchenone anno a nativitate dominj Millesimo

• Drawing of a dragon, with seven heads in its tail. In Joachim's thought, the seven heads correspond to Herod, Nero, Constantinus, Mohometh, Melsemothus, Saladin, the Antichrist, with Gog, the last Antichrist., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a church, probably Barcelona: inscribed 'Scriptus fuit liber iste per petrum fort mercatorem In Civitate barchenone anno a nativitate dominj Millesimo

• Drawing of Adam and of sacrifices., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a church, probably Barcelona: inscribed 'Scriptus fuit liber iste per petrum fort mercatorem In Civitate barchenone anno a nativitate dominj Millesimo

• Drawings, including of king Saul, the priest Eli, who falls dead after being told that his two sons had been killed and the ark of God taken by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:17-18); and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

Old and New Testaments), imperfect Made for Pedro Fort, a merchant of Barcelona in 1455, who presented it to a church, probably Barcelona: inscribed 'Scriptus fuit liber iste per petrum fort mercatorem In Civitate barchenone anno a nativitate dominj Millesimo

• Decorated initial 'V'(irginis) with penwork decoration containing a human head., Processional

red with brown penwork decoration. Large and small initials in plain red or blue. Processional Petrus Lauzelli, priest of the church of St. Michael-des-lions, Limoges: 'Incipit processionalis ordinatus secundum usum et consuetudinem ecclesie sancti michaelis lemovicis' (f. 11), and a

• Illuminated initial 'H'(istoria) with interlace motifs., Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296)

blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296) Written in 1457 by Julianus de Viterbo for Guidone Gonzaga (d. 1483): colophon, 'Scripsit Julianus de viterbio

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'H'(istoria) with interlace motifs and a smaller initial with penwork decoration., Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296)

blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296) Written in 1457 by Julianus de Viterbo for Guidone Gonzaga (d. 1483): colophon, 'Scripsit Julianus de viterbio

• Partial border with a large initial 'C'(um) with a series of faces in profile and thirteen smaller initials with penwork decoration., Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296)

blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296) Written in 1457 by Julianus de Viterbo for Guidone Gonzaga (d. 1483): colophon, 'Scripsit Julianus de viterbio

• Detail of illuminated initials 'Q'(uatuor) and 'B'(ello) with interlace motifs., Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296)

blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296) Written in 1457 by Julianus de Viterbo for Guidone Gonzaga (d. 1483): colophon, 'Scripsit Julianus de viterbio

• Illuminated initials 'Q'(uatuor) and 'B'(ello) with interlace motifs., Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296)

blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Historia (1-222v) and Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church (ff. 223-296) Written in 1457 by Julianus de Viterbo for Guidone Gonzaga (d. 1483): colophon, 'Scripsit Julianus de viterbio

• Inhabited foliate initial 'A'(bsenti) with small figures, at the beginning of Joannes de Milis's Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum., Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum

Anno m [cccc] quinquagesimo quarto', followed by the initials 'IK' (f. 330).Perhaps written or owned in Mainz, which had a church dedicated to St Alban: with a contemporary or near-contemporary inscription 'Presulis Albani habens ossa que Ruffini / Talis in

• Inhabited foliate initial 'A'(bsenti) with a seated man and a naked man, at the beginning of Joannes de Milis's Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum., Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum

Anno m [cccc] quinquagesimo quarto', followed by the initials 'IK' (f. 330).Perhaps written or owned in Mainz, which had a church dedicated to St Alban: with a contemporary or near-contemporary inscription 'Presulis Albani habens ossa que Ruffini / Talis in

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with a portrait of Bartholomaeus de S. Concordio and an illuminated initial 'A'(bbas)., Summa Pisana with an index (ff. 222v-226v) (index Summa de casibus conscientiae, Summa Pisanella)

(but effaced) 'Iste liber est ad usum fratrum...comorantium in loco Sancti Salvatoris in monte Sancti Miniato prope Florentiam (f. [i]).The church of San Salvatore d'Ognissante, Florence, offset of an effaced 18th-century ownership inscription: 'Della libreria d'Ognissanti' (f. [i verso]).The Harley

• The acts of Thomas Chyllyndene, prior of Christ Church who died in 1411, with a space for an initial., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

Chyllyndene, prior of Christ Church who died in 1411, with a space for an initial. 1 large decorated initial, incorporating arms, developing a three-sided foliate border (f. 61). 1 large decorated initial, incorporating arms (f. 4). 1 smaller decorated initial,

• Decorated initial with the heraldic arms of a 'gold stone' of Thomas Goldstone and partial border at the beginning of his acts, with a bishop's mitre in the margin. Goldstone was a prior of Christ Church in the early sixteenth century., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

a prior of Christ Church in the early sixteenth century. 1 large decorated initial, incorporating arms, and a partial foliate border with scrolls (f. 65). Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.Lord William Howard

• Drawing of a standing Father of the Greek church, and decorated initials., Hymns and prayers, preceded by extracts from the Fathers, and followed by other prayers, imperfect

Father of the Greek church, and decorated initials. 4 drawings in pen with colour washes of standing Fathers, three holding scrolls (ff. 13, 18v, 20, 21v). 7 simple headpieces in brown, with some penwork decoration, one with a cross (f.

• Obits for several days in the month of January, written in several 15th-century hands in different periods., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

for illuminated initials left empty (ff. 58, 59, 72). Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d.

• Lists of the dead (the 'necrology') for the month of September, with the names of bishops, clergy, noble patrons, and members of the community., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

for illuminated initials left empty (ff. 58, 59, 72). Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d.

• Calendar page for May, with an early addition to this calendar is the dedication of the church of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, on 17 May, suggesting that the manuscript was owned in the parish fairly soon after it was made., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 1-6v), litany (ff. 145-146v), and prayers

brown (f. 174). Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 1-6v), litany (ff. 145-146v), and prayers The parish church of Hitchin, Herfordshire: dedication of the church in the calendar for 17 May (f. 3).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661,