• Detail of a miniature of the Annunciation., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the Nativity., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the Ascension of Christ., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the martyrdom of Edmund., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the martyrdom of Amphilabus., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of the martyrdom of Alban., Psalter and Canticles

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6378.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Coloured initials in a text page of the chronicle., Chronicle, AD 1-1135 (ff. 34-61), with additions up to 1266 (ff. 61v-73)

14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose version attributed to Richard Studley, 15th century (?) (ff. 74-77);A London chronicle, c. 1429-1430 (ff. 78-99);St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120);St Albans's register of burials (ff. 129r–137r);Genesis in

• Decorated initial 'P'(rimo)., Commentary on the Song of Songs, followed by other texts (ff. 2-104v); Commentary on Acts of the Apostles (ff. 105-152v); Commentary on Catholic Epistles (ff. 153-222); Homiliae (ff. 223-251); Commentary on Tobit (ff. 252-258)

this type of inscription see Richard Sharpe, ~English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues~, Corpus of British Medieva Library Catalogues, 4 (London: The British Library, 1996), p. 327. Gotham's name is inscribed twice more in same hand (f. 258v). Inscribed apparently

• Decorated initial 'S'(e) with grotesques and foliate motif at the beginning of Cicero's 'De inventione'; next to it the St Alban's press-mark 'D.II.5.l'., De inventione (index Rhetorica)(ff. 1-47v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)(ff. 47v-85)

see ~English Benedictine Librarires: The Shorter Catalogues~, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 542-543). A 15th-century hand added 'Hatfeld' and notes on Medea and Aegisthus (f. 1v). Press-marks

• Decorated initial 'M'(undus) with reserved designs and penwork decoration, at the beginning of the 7th tract of Augustine's 'In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X'., Enchiridion (ff. 2-47); In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X (ff. 47-121v)

1468, 1464 and 1466 (ff. 122r-122v). Added penwork decoration, ?16th century (to initial on f. 47v). Nicholas Waryng, Salter of London, 16th century; given by him to Richard Pytt of Bath: inscribed, 16th century 'liber Ricardi pytt bathm Ex dono

• Initials 'R'(es) and 'A'(nno) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of William of Malmesbury's 'Gesta regum Anglorum'., Gesta regum Anglorum (ff. 4-103v); Gesta pontificum Anglorum (ff. 108-167); Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio S. Patricii (ff. 167v-175)

by R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson and A. G. Watson, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 465-467; see ibid. p. 526 for information on Alexander, the precentor); perhaps no. 120 ('Hystoria

• Initials 'P'(rima), 'Q'(uatuor), 'N'(on), 'T'(abernaculum) with penwork decoration., Liber Exceptionum, Part II (ff. 1-55v); sermons, and other texts (see Notes for contents)

by R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson and A. G. Watson, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 465-467; see ibid. p. 526 for information on Alexander, the precentor); perhaps no. 120 ('Hystoria

• Musical notation: the Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a Latin translation., 'Vitae' (f. 1v), 'De consolatione philosophiae', Books 1-5, with glosses (ff. 2v-110v), 'Opuscula sacra', Books 1-4, imperfect, with glosses (ff. 113v-149v)

Düsseldorf: possibly bought with the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Initial ''P'(uer) at the beginning of Peter of Blois's Sermon V In nativitate domini., Epistola ad Paulinum (Epistle 53) (ff. 1-4v); Sermones; verses and tabulae (ff. 123v-124v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 9; its book-plate with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 10.16', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Detail of marginal drawing of a woman., Commentary on Cicero's De inventione (index Rhetorica), ending imperfect

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Interlace initial., Epistula de reliquiis S. Pantaleonis, fragment

Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (f. [ii] verso), with the pencil inscription: 'XIII.2.8'.Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'A'(d) and coloured initial 'M'(undus)at the beginning of Honorius Augustodunensis's Imago mundi., Imago mundi

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Interlace initial., Epistula de reliquiis S. Pantaleonis, fragment

Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (f. [ii] verso), with the pencil inscription: 'XIII.2.8'.Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Ink drawings of a head and in the lower margin, a woman with crossed arms, in Thierry of Chartres's Commentary on Cicero's De inventione., Commentary on Cicero's De inventione (index Rhetorica), ending imperfect

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Text page., Epistula de reliquiis S. Pantaleonis, fragment

Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (f. [ii] verso), with the pencil inscription: 'XIII.2.8'.Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with