• Detail of a decorated initial 'D'(enique)., De laudibus virginitatis

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page., Leaf from Aelfric's 'Catholic Homelies', I.xx and xxviii, cropped

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Coloured initial., Leaf from an unidentified Biblical Chronicle (?)

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) with a human face., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'H'(anc)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(orro)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(rete)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'D'(omino)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'R'*everentissimis) with display script., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(rimitus)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatissimo), with animals and grotesques, at the beginning of the Life of St. Gregory., Life of St Gregory

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6423.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a Missal, on parchment, which was possibly a gift of bishop Leofric according to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a text with extracts from Luke and Matthew, possibly a Lectionary, on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Initial 'P'(ost quam) with interlace decoration and clasps, and title in display capitals., Fragment from a Life of St Gertrud (?), on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Text page with initials, marginal notes and ink drawing of a pitcher., De fide orthodoxa

(see: W. H. James Weale, ~Bookbindings and Rubbings of Bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum~, 2 vols (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1894), p. 222, no. 519.) The reference to this MS. of no. 498 in the same

• Decorated foliate initial 'A'(d te) with acanthus leaves combined with a partial bar border with interlace, ending in foliate tendrils., Missal, Use of Sarum, adapted for the diocese of Norwich

the margin), ff. 118-119, 120v,121v-124v, 128-131v, 133v-136, 137-140v, 142v-143, etc.).Beginning with a calendar including, in red: Wulstani, Cedde (bishop of London), Edwardi, Cuthberti, Vitalis, translation of Edmund (x 2), Johannis beverlaci (John of Beverley), Dunstani, Aldelini, translation of Richard, translation