• Historiated initial 'D'(ixi) of David before God, pointing to his mouth, at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

hand (f. i verso and unfoliated flyleaf at the end); passed to Robert Scott.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller. Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: probably purchased from Scott together with other

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of David and a fool, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

hand (f. i verso and unfoliated flyleaf at the end); passed to Robert Scott.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller. Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: probably purchased from Scott together with other

• Detail of a historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David drowning in water, with God above, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

hand (f. i verso and unfoliated flyleaf at the end); passed to Robert Scott.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller. Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: probably purchased from Scott together with other

• Detail of a historiated initial 'E(xultate)' of David playing the bells, at the beginning of Psalm 80., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

hand (f. i verso and unfoliated flyleaf at the end); passed to Robert Scott.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller. Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: probably purchased from Scott together with other

• Miniature of God creating animals and birds., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Illuminated initials 'N'(unc) and 'I'(ncipit), with foliate extensions., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initials Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Detail of a miniature of Petrus Aureoli, Archbishop of Aix, preaching from the pulpit inscribed on the front with words 'quis ascendit in montem', with Christ enthroned on the mountain above him, at the beginning of the text., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Aureoli Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Detail of a miniature of a mermaid and a fish., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Detail of a miniature of a God creating the world with compasses., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Detail of a miniature of God creating animals and birds., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Miniature of Petrus Aureoli, Archbishop of Aix, preaching from the pulpit inscribed on the front with words 'quis ascendit in montem', with Christ enthroned on the mountain above him, with a full border and a shield with cross, crown of thorns, and crossed lance and sponge, at the beginning of the text., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Aureoli Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Detail of a miniature of a man holding a set square and a compass at the beginning of the section on geometry., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Detail of a miniature of a city divided by a crevice., Image du Monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans) (index Mappe Monde)

D'Ewes, a large part of which was purchased by Harley, see Andrew George Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Library, 1966).The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430-1440, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English

• Drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison., Miscellany, including a wind rose (f. 17), a Greek and Latin grammatical list (ff. 19-22), and an excerpt from the 'Proverbia Salomonis' (f. 22v), with the later 11th-century addition of notated hymn and sequence for St Michael (ff. 17v-18).

library in Düsseldorf: bought 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 Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and

• Text page of a 9th-century copy of Priscianus's 'Institutiones grammaticae', Books 4-5 (ff. 47-54v)., 'Epodes' (ff. 23-29), 'Carmen saeculare' (ff. 29-30v), Epistles (ff. 30v-43v), and Satires (ff. 43v-46v), with glosses

library in Düsseldorf: bought 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 Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and

• Text page of Priscianus's 'Institutiones grammaticae'., 'Epodes' (ff. 23-29), 'Carmen saeculare' (ff. 29-30v), Epistles (ff. 30v-43v), and Satires (ff. 43v-46v), with glosses

library in Düsseldorf: bought 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 Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and

• Text page from the Virgil portion of the manuscript, with coloured initials., Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, fragment

library in Düsseldorf: bought 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

• Coloured initials in the Virgil portion of the manuscript., Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, fragment

library in Düsseldorf: bought 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 'A'(ftir) with and full border with interlace motif., The Orcherd of Syon

flyleaves.See generally ~The Orchard of Syon,~ ed. by Phyllis Hodgson and Gabriel M. Liegey, The Early English Text Society, 258, (London: Oxford University Press, 1966). 7 full borders with decorated large initials in pink, blue, and gold, with interlace and

• Illuminated initial 'E'(t) with an unidentified coat of arms, and initial 'O'(ratoris) in red with blue penwork decoration., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium); De inventione synonyma; Gasparini Pergamensis exordia circa rhetoricam novam Ciceronis; Praecepta Gasparini de Parma

Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; 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