• Detail of a miniature of the priests of the temple wrongfully handing over their treasure to Heliodorus, illustrating 2 Maccabees 3., Bible moralisée (section of the Oxford-Paris-London Bible moralisée), containing 1 Maccabees 1:57-2 Maccabees 14:46

Maccabees 3. This manuscript and Harley 1527 are part of a Bible moralisée that is divided between Oxford, Paris and London (the Oxford-Paris-London Bible moralisée): volume 1 is Oxford, MS Bodley 270b; volume 2 is Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France,

• Puzzle initials 'P'(linius)., Vita Plinii (Life of Pliny) (f. 1), letter to Vespasian (ff. 1-2), Historia naturalis (Natural History) (ff. 2-296) with extracts from Isidore of Seville (added to fill gaps in the exemplar)

dean of the royal chapel, 'This boke belongeth to Sir John . . . chapleyn to my [Lord ?] of London, [who ?] was the kynges grand . . . dean of the kynges chapell' ( f. 294v). The Old

• null, Adversus haereses

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initial 'M'(ortuo) at the beginning of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with the crossed-out ownership inscription of St Mary Overy above., Historia scholastica, part, and Sermons

(inside lower cover); 'suwerk' (f. 102v).Book plate with 'JS' (inside upper cover). Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought in March 1834 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Coloured initials and diagram., Miscellany, including charms and incantations (ff. 52v-60v)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £2 10s., along with 32 other

• Decorated initial., De physicis, extract (imperfect)

and politician.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. 1v; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated initial 'R'(egine) at the beginning of Ambrose's De fide, decorated with acanthus leaves., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 7-8); Battle Abbey-style shelf mark ‘co’ (upper right hand corners, ff. i, 1). Perhaps

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uisnam) at the beginning of the prologue to book five of Ambrose's De fide, with pen-flourishing., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 7-8); Battle Abbey-style shelf mark ‘co’ (upper right hand corners, ff. i, 1). Perhaps

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis, with the ink-stamp of the Royal Society in the lower margin., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

and politician.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 number 'XV 3.17',

• Decorated initial 'P'(aucorum) at the beginning of Maximus of Turin's Homily hiemales de tempore, II (attributed to Ambrose)., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initials 'N'(atalis) and 'H'(esterno) with foliate forms., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12805, bought by Marsh for £3 3s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F. S.

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12805, bought by Marsh for £3 3s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F. S.

• Decorated initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio), and later, possibly seventeenth-century marginal notations., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

and politician.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 number 'XV 3.17',

• Detail of puzzle initial 'T'., Miscellany, including Convertimini (ff. 28-77v); Moralitates (ff. 78-94); Lumen anime; De regimine principum (ff. 136-222v)

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of the decorated initial 'C' and decorated border., Miscellany, including Convertimini (ff. 28-77v); Moralitates (ff. 78-94); Lumen anime; De regimine principum (ff. 136-222v)

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Flourished initials, at the beginning of the Sermones et epistolae., Italian Humanist letters and speeches

and politician.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. 3).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated puzzle initial 'F'(orma), incorporating an animal's head below., De physicis, extract (imperfect)

and politician.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. 1v; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initial 'H'(esterno) with foliate forms., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initial 'P'(aucorum) at the beginning of Maximus of Turin's Homily hiemales de tempore, II (attributed to Ambrose)., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

and politician.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).Purchased by the British Museum