• Puzzle initial 'B'(onifacius), at the beginning of Bonifatius's Liber sextus Decretalium., Quaestationes Disputatae (ends imperfectly)

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

• Initial including heraldic arms, and a full border with roses and portcullises alternately placed, at the beginning of the indenture., Indenture between Lady Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, and John Islip, abbot of Westminster abbey

1819).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Initial and border London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of puzzle initial., Viaticum; De elephantia aliisque morbis (ff. 92v-94v)

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 book-plate, inside upper

• Initial 'D'(um) at the beginning of Peter of Blois's Sermon I De adventu 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

• Text page with lettering in black and red., Pauline Epistles, in the new Latin translation of Jacques Lefèvre

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7764).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Pieter Meghen Pieter Meghen London England, S. E (London)

• Text page with lettering in black and red., Pauline Epistles, in the new Latin translation of Jacques Lefèvre

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7764).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Pieter Meghen Pieter Meghen London England, S. E (London)

• Decorated initial 'S'(anctissimo) at the beginning of Bede's Life of Cuthbert, with the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London in the lower margin., Prose Vita sancti Cuthberti (ff. 1-34v), two miracles from the Historia ecclesiastica, De gestis pontificum Anglorum, the miracles of Andrew

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

• Historiated initial 'N' of Olivetan Monks worshipping the Cross., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Binding decorated with blind-stamped tools, depicting King David harping, a lion, a griffin, and dragon and foliage motifs., 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

• 13th-century inscriptions consisting of a note of the contents, and ownership of St. Mary's, Southwark: 'sancte marie de souwerk'., 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

• Binding decorated with blind-stamped tools, depicting King David harping, a lion, a griffin, and dragon and foliage motifs., 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

• Zoomorphic initial 'V'(erba) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of Jeremiah., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Numbers 11, attached to the cover, 9th century (see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734)).Inscribed 'Liber Petri Alfusi', referred to the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Text page., Miscellany of sermons, treatises and Gospel harmonies, including Unum ex quattuor; Allegoriae super Novum Testamentum; Diatessaron (fragment)

inscribed in a 15th-century hand, 'Constat frater Joh[a]nn[es] Tame de ordine aug[ustin'] London et impigno[ratur] henr[ico] ponsthorp p' (f. 189).Johannes Tame of the Convent of Austin friars, London (see above and Ker 1964).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Miniature of a centaur holding a snake; below, hedgehogs collecting grapes on their spines., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Miniature of a swallow, at the beginning of the entry for swallow., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Miniature of two serpents fighting, at the beginning of the entry for 'vipera'., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Historiated initial 'R' of David., Cuttings from a choir book

W. Y. Ottley's Collection. / F. M.'.Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1088; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £4

• Historiated initial 'P' with foliage and trompe l'oeil jewels, of the Adoration of the Shepherds., Cuttings from a choir book

W. Y. Ottley's Collection. / F. M.'.Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1088; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £4

• Miniatures of a two goats and a bull., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,

• Detail of a miniature of vultures., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises them as 'paired manuscripts'. See also Baxter 1998.According to Morgan 1982,