• Detail of initial with bird's head decoration, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Puzzle initial 'G'(od) and a ciborium, in the Breviary., Breviary, including computistic circles, table, and instructions, a caldenar of Utrecht, a Psalter, a standard lay Breviary text with a Psalter and the Office of the Dead, a litany, and an added Office of Barbara

Inscription, 18th century: 'Theyers Constanten'(?) (1st flyleaf).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9th December 1848 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Miniature of David, puzzle initial 'S' developing a border including a peacock, in the Breviary., Breviary, including computistic circles, table, and instructions, a caldenar of Utrecht, a Psalter, a standard lay Breviary text with a Psalter and the Office of the Dead, a litany, and an added Office of Barbara

Inscription, 18th century: 'Theyers Constanten'(?) (1st flyleaf).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9th December 1848 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Initial 'P'(ost) with white vine decoration, at the beginning of Pliny 's Epistola 2., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Illuminated white vine initial 'F'(requenter) at the beginning of Pliny's Epistolae., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Illuminated white vine initial 'C'(upis) at the beginning of Pliny's Epistola 4., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Detail of illluminated initial., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Detail of illluminated initial., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Detail of illluminated initial., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Decorated initial 'S'(uscipe) in Nigel de Longchamps's Speculum stultorum., Speculum stultorum (ff. 1-66v), imperfect, and other works including a life of Eustace; Catalogus Eruditi beati Thomae

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.', ff. 1, 11, marginal inscription with

• Miniature of Fortune with her wheel, surrounded by supplicants., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), replacement folio

1487): his arms (in vol. 1: Harley 4372, f. 12).Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: sold to the Harleys on 24 January 1722/3 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972 where a mistake

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi (at left of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

the sale, 6 May 1856, by Boone according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased from him on the same day by the British Museum. Adoration of the Magi Rome

• Miniature of the Presentation in the Temple (at centre of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

the sale, 6 May 1856, by Boone according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased from him on the same day by the British Museum. The Presentation in the Temple

• Miniature of Christ appearing to two disciples on the road to Emmaus (at right of image)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

the sale, 6 May 1856, by Boone according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased from him on the same day by the British Museum. Christ on the Road to

• Miniature of Raymond de Peñafort presenting the Decretales to Gregory IX, with an illuminated initial 'G'(regorius), at the beginning of Gregory IX letter to the university of Bologna., Decretales, with the glossa ordinaria

but 1698?), II, no. 6420.Charles Theyer (b. 1651): inscribed 'Lib[er] Caroli Theyer' (f. 296v).Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge

• Detail of a miniature of Fortune with her wheel, surrounded by supplicants., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), replacement folio

1487): his arms (in vol. 1: Harley 4372, f. 12).Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: sold to the Harleys on 24 January 1722/3 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972 where a mistake

• Miniature depicting a monk presenting a book to a ruler; on the right-hand side, a miniature of an armed king (Charlemagne?) and soldiers before the Pope (?)., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 1

of France (d. 19 January 1487): his arms (f. 12).Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: sold to the Harleys on 24 January 1722/3 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972 where a mistake

• Miniature of a procession of a king travelling in a covered cart, with mounted musicians and a castle in the distance; text and borders., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 1

of France (d. 19 January 1487): his arms (f. 12).Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: sold to the Harleys on 24 January 1722/3 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972 where a mistake

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, a lion, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 255 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 275 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May