• Miniature with two men conversing, a blazing sun, a helm with the constellations, the motto: 'Arma Artis,' and monkeys, birds and flowers in the border., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Detail of the lower right-hand border of the miniature, with a monkey playing a lute., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Detail of the sun., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Miniature of a man with a sword, clutching a severed head and standing beside the torso of the man he has decapitated., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Miniature of a man, with a dove on his head, bathing and immersed in a circular tub, heated by flames fanned by a male attendant., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

of the Sun) Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): a manuscript answering to 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the library of Charles II at Whitehall Palace, 2 Sept. 1680, being described by him as follows:

• Illuminated initial 'E'(fflagitasti) and decorated initial 'P'(ost) at the beginning of a prefatory letter and preface to Book 1 of Quintilian's Institutiones., Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Illuminated initial 'E'(fflagitasti) and decorated initial 'P'(ost) at the beginning of a prefatory letter and preface to Book 1 of Quintilian's Institutiones. Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large

• Illuminated initial 'F'(uerant) at the beginning of Book 5 of Quintilian's Institutiones., Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Illuminated initial 'F'(uerant) at the beginning of Book 5 of Quintilian's Institutiones. Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large initials in gold on a coloured ground with foliate decoration

• Historiated initial 'W'(han) with Lydgate as a monk riding a horse, at the beginning of the prologue of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Historiated initial John Lydgate England

• Foliate initial 'P'(assed) with three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of part 2 of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Foliate initial and border John Lydgate England

• Foliate initial 'S'(irs) including the heraldic arms of William de la Pole, with a full foliate border, at the beginning of part 1 of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. William de la Pole John Lydgate England

• Illuminated initial 'P'(arata) at the beginning of Book 11 of Quintilian's Institutiones., Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Illuminated initial 'P'(arata) at the beginning of Book 11 of Quintilian's Institutiones. Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large initials in gold on a coloured ground with foliate decoration

• Detail of the upper portion of an illuminated border and initial 'O', with various flowers., Troy book, imperfect (translated from the Latin of Guido de Columna)

its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v); its book-plate (f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail John Lydgate England

• null, Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large initials in gold on a coloured ground with foliate decoration (ff. 1, 25, 46v, 66, 82v, 105v, 122, 139, 156v, 181v, 197v,

• null, Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large initials in gold on a coloured ground with foliate decoration (ff. 1, 25, 46v, 66, 82v, 105v, 122, 139, 156v, 181v, 197v,

• Illuminated border and initial 'O', with various flowers and a small dog (?) with a collar in the center border., Troy book, imperfect (translated from the Latin of Guido de Columna)

'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v); its book-plate (f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Illuminated border and initial John Lydgate England

• Foliate initial 'P'(assed), at the beginning of part 2 of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail: Foliate initial John Lydgate England

• Detail of a historiated initial 'W'(han) with Lydgate as a black monk riding a horse, presumeably Lydgate, at the beginning of the prologue of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Lydgate John Lydgate England

• Foliate initial 'S'(irs) including the heraldic arms of William de la Pole, at the beginning of part 1 of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail: Foliate initial John Lydgate England

• null, Institutiones, followed (ff. 235-237) by other short texts

Gathering v (ff. 35-42) inserted, written in late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive script. 12 large initials in gold on a coloured ground with foliate decoration (ff. 1, 25, 46v, 66, 82v, 105v, 122, 139, 156v, 181v, 197v,

• Illuminated initial and full border with a mask and a dragon., Polychronicon (ff. 1-201v); Dialogus inter clericum et militem (ff. 202-205), and other texts

Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Illuminated border Ranulf Higden (index Ranulph Higden), translated into English by John Trevisa England