• Partial border with illuminated initial 'M'(ercy)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'G'(regorie)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'T'(o)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'O'(f)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'N'(ow), effaced., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'A'(ristotil)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'N'(ow)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Text page., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Text page Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'N'(ow)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border with illuminated initial 'N'(ow)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Partial border and illuminated initial 'T'(ouche)., The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum) (index Regement of Princes, The Government of Princes)

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. Partial border Thomas Hoccleve (index Occleve) Westminster England, S.E. (London or Westminster)

• Illuminated initials and line-fillers., Book of Hours, fragment

Robert Cotton (see Watson 1966, Wright 1972): listed in his catalogue without number as 'the Armes of the Companies of London' (see Add. 22918, f. 21; see Watson 1966).Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former:

• Decorated initial 'F'(yve) at the beginning of the general prologue to the Old Testament., General prologue to the Old Testament

which he bequeathed to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (see Harley Catalogue and note by Frederick Madded f. [iii]).Mr Agarde of London: added extracts, 17th century (see Forshall and Madden).Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at

• Initials with penwork decoration., 'Graecismus' with marginal gloss

1-27), its 17th-century ownership inscription (f. 1; see Wright and Wright 1966; Wright 1972)Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and

• Decorated initials 'Q'(ue) and 'U'(t)., Africa (index de Bello Punico poema), with the 'argomento monostico' and Argumenta

Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; 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

• Decorated initial 'L'(ord), and full border, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin., Hours and Psalter (ends incompletely), Use of Sarum

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'G'(od), and three-sided border, in the Book of Hours., Hours and Psalter (ends incompletely), Use of Sarum

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'C'(onverte), and three-sided border, in the Book of Hours., Hours and Psalter (ends incompletely), Use of Sarum

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost), and three-sided border, at the beginning of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon; in the lower margin William Howard's owner-inscription, dated 1587, with his rampant lion in the margin on the right; in the lower margin also the ink-stamp of the Royal Society., Polychronicon

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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniatures, and a full border, at the beginning of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita., Ab Urbe Condita, the first decade only

1400. Les arts sous Charles VI~ (Paris: Fayard, 2004), nos 74-75.Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh (b. 1744, d. 1811): his sale, London, 18 May 1789, lot 1639.William Petty (~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess