• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Decorated initials, in the Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, with additions by the hand of Hans Pirckheimer dated from 1381 to 1463., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.7.17’, f. [iii verso]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of decorated initials., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.7.17’, f. [iii verso]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated and foliate border of medallions with Peter, Isaiah and another prophet bearing scrolls inscribed 'Egredietur virga de radice Iesse et flos de radice' (Isaiah 11:1) and 'Ecce rex tuus venit sanctu(s) et s' and the Medici devices of Leo X: a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave', and three winged putti, measuring 445 x 35 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

include Add. 21412, ff. 20-44; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and

• Detail of a miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the manuscript includes both

• Miniature with two men addressing the emperor Justinian, and a foliate initial 'O'(ccupatis), at the beginning of Justinian's Digestum Vetus., Glossed Arbor Actionum, Volumen Parvum, and Liber Feudorum, preceeded by a table of actiones (ff. 1v-2), and a table of content (ff. 3-4v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.31’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Foliate initial 'I'(mp[er]atoriam), and flourished heading 'Imperator', at the beginning of the Institutionum juris libri quatuor., Glossed Arbor Actionum, Volumen Parvum, and Liber Feudorum, preceeded by a table of actiones (ff. 1v-2), and a table of content (ff. 3-4v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.31’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the

• Diagram., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial 'F'(uit) of the Anoiting of David., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial, with a king in bed, and pointing to a building., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Text page., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Penwork initial 'P' in green and red, at the beginning of the Epistles of Paul., Glossed Pauline Epistles; treatise on prayer, Donatio Constantini, excerpta from Augustine and Jerome

et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6513 or 6523.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated and foliate initial 'O' in colours and gold, of Clare of Assisi. The saint is barefoot, and holding a lily and a book., Cutting from a service book

by her soon after World War II through her brother, Tomás Harris, managing director of the Spanish Art Gallery in London. Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of inheritance tax from the estates of Miss Violeta Harris and her sister,

• Detail of a miniature of Gandoline in bed., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Gandoline in bed Master of the London Wavrin Jean de Wavrin Bruges Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Gincelin, and the combat of Morbidus and the sea monster., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Death of Gincelin Master of the London Wavrin Jean de Wavrin Bruges Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of the marriage of Constans and Helena, and the birth of Constantine., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Constans and Helena Master of the London Wavrin Jean de Wavrin Bruges Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of the landing of Aurelian and Uther., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Aurelian and Uther Master of the London Wavrin Jean de Wavrin Bruges Netherlands, S. (Bruges)

• Detail of a miniature of the coronation of Arthur., Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre, volume 1

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coronation of Arthur Master of the London Wavrin Jean de Wavrin Bruges Netherlands, S. (Bruges)