• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a wolf with a lamb in his mouth., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a dog with a rooster in his mouth and two birds in the upper margin., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a parrot and a duck., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of an initial-word panel accompanied by a dragon and a hybrid, at the evening prayer for Yom Kippur., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a duck or a goose (?)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a marginal painting of a man pointing to his eye, at a liturgical poem for 10 of Tevet (a Jewish fast day) starting with 'Be your eyes open' (for the poem, see Davidson vol. 3, no. 118)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a framed marginal painting of a family around the Seder table with the master of the house making the blessing over the second cup of wine., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Initial-word panel decorated with geometrical and foliate motifs., Prayer book, Italian rite

of the 17th century), censor: inscribed with his name (f. 182v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 62-74.Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed,

• Scribal formula surrounded by a foliate scroll held by a hand., Prayer book, Italian rite

of the 17th century), censor: inscribed with his name (f. 182v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 62-74.Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed,

• Initial words decorated with fleur-de-lis, and geometric scrolls, at the beginning of ~Sefer tiqqun middot ha-nefesh~., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Busts of a lion and a rooster linked together, perhaps part of an unfinished coat of arms., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• End of Deuteronomy framed by micrographical design (f. 191v), and ~masorah~ in micrographical form framing a scribal formula (f. 192)., Pentateuch with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1612 (f. 196); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), pp. 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.Italian inscription: ‘Pentateuco Ebraico ossia li cinque libri di Moise’

• Detail: initial words decorated with fleur-de-lis, and geometric scrolls, at the beginning of ~Sefer tiqqun middot ha-nefesh~., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Detail of a page: busts of a lion and a rooster linked together, perhaps part of an unfinished coat of arms., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Peter, with the descender of the letter composed of a foliate extension of acanthus leaves (centre)., Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale)

Ms 978, no. D. 218-1906. See Laurence B. Kanter and others, ~Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450~ (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), pp. 155-76 [exhibition catalogue] and Gaudenz Freuler, 'Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci', in ~Dizionario Biografico

• Initial 'T' of the dedication of a church., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index Antiphonal, antiphonary)

26, 28-30, 32, 33abc, 34abc; Paris, Musée National du Moyen Âge-Thermes, 22712-22713; Plzen (Czeck Republic), Západoceské Muzeum, inv. 2972; New York, ex-Stern Collection; Washington National Gallery of Art, inv. B 14842.Musical notation. 1 historiated initial 'T' in colours and gold,

• Illuminated initial 'S'(alve) in gold on a red ground, with a three-sided scatter border with flowers., An explication of the ten commandments (imperfect at the beginning) (ff. 1-8v), Lavynham's Little Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins (De septem mortalibus peccatis), a tract on the Pater Noster (ff. 28v-48v), and various other religious works (imperfect at the end)

the Pater Noster (ff. 28v-48v), and various other religious works (imperfect at the end) Thomas Wolsey, royal minister, archbishop of York, cardinal (b. c. 1470, d. 1530): his arms and an encomium by John Voss dedicated to Wolsey (f. 402).Robert

• Calendar page for March with a man trimming vines (labour of the month), a ram (Aries), David's harp, and saints Chad and Gregory., Almanac with an astrological miscellany

(Watson, 1979).English saints in the calendar include Chad, Cuthbert (x 2), Dunstan, Guthlac, John of Beverley, Oswald, Swithin, William of York, Wilfrid, and others.A tinted drawing of a saint on f. 7v has been deliberately effaced.Text in English f. 22-22v:

• Calendar page for March with tinted drawings of saints Edward, Cuthbert, a blessing hand (Benedict), and a fleur-de-lis (for the feast of the Annunciation)., Almanac with an astrological miscellany

(Watson, 1979).English saints in the calendar include Chad, Cuthbert (x 2), Dunstan, Guthlac, John of Beverley, Oswald, Swithin, William of York, Wilfrid, and others.A tinted drawing of a saint on f. 7v has been deliberately effaced.Text in English f. 22-22v:

• Calendar page for April with tinted drawings of saints Tiburtius and Valerianus, George, Wilfrid, and Mark., Almanac with an astrological miscellany

(Watson, 1979).English saints in the calendar include Chad, Cuthbert (x 2), Dunstan, Guthlac, John of Beverley, Oswald, Swithin, William of York, Wilfrid, and others.A tinted drawing of a saint on f. 7v has been deliberately effaced.Text in English f. 22-22v: