• Biblical scenes and moralisations., Bible moralisée (section of the Oxford-Paris-London Bible moralisée), containing 1 Maccabees 1:57-2 Maccabees 14:46

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, ms latin 11560; and volume 3 is divided into

• Bible scenes and moralisations in a series of eight roundels., Bible moralisée (section of the Oxford-Paris-London Bible moralisée), containing 1 Maccabees 1:57-2 Maccabees 14:46

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, ms latin 11560; and volume 3

• Eight roundels with biblical scenes and moralisations., Bible moralisée (section of the Oxford-Paris-London Bible moralisée), containing 1 Maccabees 1:57-2 Maccabees 14:46

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, ms latin 11560; and volume 3 is

• 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,

• 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 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',

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis., 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 initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio)., 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 a miniature of two deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed., 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 deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed., 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 tiger, distracted from the capture of its cub by its own reflection in a mirror., 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 miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'., 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 decorated initial 'B'(estiarum) and a miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'., 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,

• Ownership inscriptions., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Decorated initial, diagram, and bar border with a human hybrid grotesque at the beginning of an anonymous text on Planetary Theory, starting with a section on the movement of the Sun., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Diagrams in a treatise on solar and lunar eclipses., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Channel style initial 'B'(eatus), at the corners pictures of David, showing him rescuing the lamb from the lion, being anointed king, casting his sling at Goliath and beheading Goliath, at the beginning of the first words of Psalm 1., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Historiated initial 'Q'(ui) with an animal carrying a fishing net or basket over his shoulder while riding backwards on a goat, at the beginning of Psalm 124, and of 'I'(adini) with a man carrying a simian creature on his shoulders, at the beginning of Psalm 125., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in