• Illuminated initial 'H'(ic) and words in gold in decorated frames., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of John, with his symbol above., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Illuminated letters in a decorated frame at the beginning of Luke., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of Luke, with his symbol above., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Illuminated initials 'IN(icium)' at the beginning of Mark, in a decorated frame., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of Mark with his symbol above., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought in January 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of Hercules in a medallion set against the outstretched skin of the Nemean lion, with the motto: 'Et meus est mundare labor' and two cornucopias., Seven Emblems (index Emblemata septem)

1683), Marquis de Seignelay in 1668: his arms in the dedicatory frontispiece; inscribed, 'A Monseigneur Colbert' (f. 1).Matthew de Varenne, London bookseller and auctioneer (fl. 1723/4): his sale, 21 December 1723, lot 194).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b.

• Pen-flourished initial 'A'(d)., De potestate seculari

blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. De potestate seculari The Guildhall, London: its ownership inscription (f. 253).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert

• Text page with initial 'H'(is)., Institutiones

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• An embroidered panel of the Crucifixion set into the lower board of the binding, with Mary and John on either side of the cross, and a small figure kneeling with hands in prayer directly below., Binding

hands in prayer directly below. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to

• An embroidered panel of the Annunciation incorporated into the upper board of the binding, with a lily in a vase between Gabriel and Mary, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove., Binding

the form of a dove. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to

• Flourished initials 'P' and 'C' in red ink, and marginalia of a pointing hand and hybrid creature on a page of Remi of Auxerre's Commentary on Donatus., In Donatum minorem commentarius, and other commentaries on grammatical texts

lower border). See ~Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry~, ed. by Peter Townend, 18th edn, 3 vols (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1972), III, 70-71, under Blake of Barham Court, for an outline of the family descent. Charles

• Detail of a pen-drawing of a hybrid creature in the lower margin of the folio., In Donatum minorem commentarius, and other commentaries on grammatical texts

lower border). See ~Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry~, ed. by Peter Townend, 18th edn, 3 vols (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1972), III, 70-71, under Blake of Barham Court, for an outline of the family descent. Charles

• Detail of a pen drawing of a pointing hand in the right-hand margin of the folio., In Donatum minorem commentarius, and other commentaries on grammatical texts

lower border). See ~Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry~, ed. by Peter Townend, 18th edn, 3 vols (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1972), III, 70-71, under Blake of Barham Court, for an outline of the family descent. Charles

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnes), in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum., Historia Anglorum

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the

• Puzzle initial 'B'(onorum), at the beginning of Aristotle's De anima., De generatione et corruptione (ff. 1-23); De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 23v-26v); De sensu et sensato (ff. 27-35v); De anima (ff. 36-73v); De causis (ff. 74-83); De doctrina spiritus et animae (ff. 83-89); De morte et vita (ff. 89-90v); De vigilia et somno (ff. 91-103); with glosses

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Flourished initial 'H'(enricus), at the beginning of the Magna Carta; inscription: ‘William Howard 1592'., Vetera Statuta (index Statuta Angliae; Statute book; Statutes of England) , documents relating to St Augustine's, Canterbury, etc.

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 8).Purchased by the British Museum

• Flourished initials, in the Commentary on the Decretals; marginal drawing; in the left-hand margin of the right-hand page is a pecia note 'fi(nit) lxxij pe(cia)'., Commentary on the Decretals, Books 3-6

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rosodia), at the beginning of Johannes Balbus's Catholicon., Catholicon

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, on verso

• Marginal drawings of half-length figures, as part of a series of half-length figures always placed in the centre of the lower margin, in Johannes Balbus's Catholicon., Catholicon

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, on verso