• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers, the motto 'Semper', measuring 425 x 40 mm (at centre of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• A section of foliate border of a winged putto holding the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and part of an initial letter, measuring 440 x 50 mm (at left of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• A section of foliate border of a winged putto standing above the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', a cherub and vase, measuring 440 x 50 mm (at right of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave' above the initials 'L.X.P.M', and the letter 'N', measuring 455 x 50 mm (at centre of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers, the motto 'Semper', and a cherub, measuring 430 x 45 mm (at left of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave', and a winged putto, measuring 410 x 50 mm (at right of image)., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• Miniature of the Castle of Love, with the lover addressing three women, with a full border containing the royal arms of Henry VII impaled with those of Elisabeth of York between red and white roses, the Yorkist motto 'Dieu et mon droet', an ostrich feather with a motto 'Ic dene'; and an initial 'D'(u) with a red and white rose., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demands d'amour; Le liver dot grace entire sure le fait du government d'un prince

of the Royal arms (f. 73).Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), king of England and lord of Ireland adapted for him: the royal arms of England (ff. 1, 73) and the arms of his wife, Elisabeth ofYork, daughter

• Decorated initial 'I'(n)., Explanatio in cantica canticorum

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Richardof Saint-Victor Trier Germany, W.

• null, Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year Text copied by the scribe Nikolaos Malaxos (see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981 no. 312).Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art: bequeathed to Askew.Anthony

• Pen-flourished initials 'A'(ffter) and 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

145v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

145v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• Historiated(?) initial excised, and full foliate border with heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of the Statutes of Henry VI., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and

• Pen-flourished initial 'A'(ffter)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

145v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• Pen-flourished initial 'H'(erewith)., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

145v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• Initial 'W' with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing., 'The Myrror of the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Lorde Jhesu Criste' (ff. 1-145); an anti-Lollard treatise

145v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 1 Richard III, with a table of contents

book out of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of The Rolls. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. It was wrote about the year 1470' (f. 1).William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and