• Full-page miniature of Michael III of Wallachia on horseback. The text in the border reads: 'The figure is without soul, but it has the eyesight of a living person, and if anybody wants to know the effigy of this one, it is of the akoutsos (or famous) Master (Afthentis) Michalis of whom all Turks, both young and old, were scared'., Life of Michael III, Voivod of Wallachia (Mihai Viteazul)

of this one, it is of the akoutsos (or famous) Master (Afthentis) Michalis of whom all Turks, both young and old, were scared'. Spaces left for other miniatures.f. 1 is a paper fragment with notes by Covel pasted to f.

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), and, in the lower margin, the initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial and arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Detail of the lower margin, with initials 'R. R.' and arms of Roger Rotherham, azure, on a mount, three pointed, vert, a stag in full course or., Strategemata (index Strategematica, De re militari)

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8482.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated arms Julius Sextus Frontinus Bologna Italy, N. (Bologna)

• Detail of a miniature of Dante and Beatrice hovering before the Haven of Mercury, in which souls are enclosed, while below, four young men are standing before a Pope, who holds up open volumes containing the Old and New Testaments, in illustration of Paradiso V., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

enclosed, while below, four young men are standing before a Pope, who holds up open volumes containing the Old and New Testaments, in illustration of Paradiso V. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of

• Coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Detail of the lower half of the folio, with two knights jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Detail of the lower half of the folio depicting knights jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Detail of the upper half of the folio; coloured drawings of mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Detail of the upper left-hand portion of the folio: coloured drawing of a mounted knight (Clifton) in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawings of mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting. Top row, from left to right: Troghtbek, Watyrton. Bottom row, from left to right: Wyllowsby, Hoghton., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Detail of the upper portion of the folio with coloured drawings of mounted knights in armour and tabard jousting., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Coloured drawing of a knight with a standard., Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI, unfinished (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

direction of Thomas Holmes to sheets left blank during Legh's tenure as Clarenceux [...]' (Scott 1996). Numerous coloured drawings of English kings in armour and tabard, presenting a plaque with verses. Anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry

• Decorated initial 'S'(icut) at the beginning of the first text, and birds, oak leaves, acorns and crowned knight in armour in the margins., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany') including the 'Vita Haroldi' (ff. 1-24v); 'De inventione sancte crucis de Waltham' (also known as the 'Waltham Chronicle', ff. 43-62v), part 1; the Voyage of St Brendan (ff. 67-75v)

death of the ninth abbot of Waltham, Richard of Hertford, who died in 1345 (ff. 38v-39).Some verses written in Middle English (f. 39; transcribed in Millar 1933, 117-18).The various texts have been numbered and these numbers have been written in

• Decorated initial 'D'(e) with pen-flourishing including an oak leaf, at the beginning of a list of the relics given to Waltham abbey by Harold and others., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany') including the 'Vita Haroldi' (ff. 1-24v); 'De inventione sancte crucis de Waltham' (also known as the 'Waltham Chronicle', ff. 43-62v), part 1; the Voyage of St Brendan (ff. 67-75v)

death of the ninth abbot of Waltham, Richard of Hertford, who died in 1345 (ff. 38v-39).Some verses written in Middle English (f. 39; transcribed in Millar 1933, 117-18).The various texts have been numbered and these numbers have been written in