• Orrell of Orrell pedigree., 'The Visitacion of Lancashire' (index Visitation of Lancashire) (unfinished)

of Lancashire) (unfinished) William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), herald, playwright and topographer, c. 1575 citizen and Haberdasher of London, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1597: written by him in 1598 following a visitation in 1467 (f. 2*), notes probably

• Opening page of the text of the Tabula Cebetis, with decorated borders and initials., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initial 'E'(st)., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniature with a dead landscape., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniature of the Seat of Virtue, with a personification of Virtue in a garden with Aeternitas, Gloria, Studius, and Mars., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Illuminated initial with pen-flourished decoration., Fragment from a Missal, on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Coloured initial 'U' with penwork decoration., Fragment from and Canon law (?) text, on paper

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Detail of a roundel of men making barrels, on the page for August in the Calendar., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

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

• Miniature of the Massacre of the Innocents, a decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

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

• Miniature of David enthroned, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

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

• Detail of calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

Gilson 1921).In the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 42, no, 3.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimens Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London)

• Pen-flourished initial 'I'(n dei nomine amen)., The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

Church, London. 5 large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 2, 9, 10v, 11v). Marginal notations and rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

• Historiated initial 'C' of the Vision of Ezechiel. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...ue sub ipso /…le bant'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• Historiated initial 'C' of Helen praying before the Cross. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...cut docuit /…lo'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• Historiated initial 'O' of a funeral with a saint burying a man. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '…meoru[m] neq[ue] /…as de pecca'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• Christ in Majesty or God the Father seated in a mandorla on a rainbow, carrying a gold sceptre in his right hand and an orb in his left, with 'Beati immaculati' in display text (top miniature)., Cutting from a Breviary, containing text from psalm 118

same Breviary are Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1951.548 and 1953.21 (see P. D’Ancora and E. Aeschlimann, The Art of Illumination. London, 1969, p. 230, pl. 131; and Mirella Levi D’Ancona, ~The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School~ (Florence: Leo

• Historiated initial 'R' of a king with foliate extension and bezants (top centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'E' of a king praying (left centre., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of a king praying (right centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'D' of a turbaned man with an architectural background in monochrome (lower centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;