• Detail of a miniature of Richard dismounted, and Charlemagne and his host., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Detail of a miniature ofRichard dismounted, and Charlemagne and his host. The volume includes:List of contents (f. 1v);Dedicatory verses (f. 2v);Genealogical table of descendants of Saint Louis (f. 3);Historia de proelis in French (ff. 5-24v) (History of Battles) about

• Miniature of Richard dismounted, and Charlemagne and his host., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Miniature ofRichard dismounted, and Charlemagne and his host. The volume includes:List of contents (f. 1v);Dedicatory verses (f. 2v);Genealogical table of descendants of Saint Louis (f. 3);Historia de proelis in French (ff. 5-24v) (History of Battles) about Alexander, king of

• Detail of a miniature of Richard being rescued from the gallows., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Detail of a miniature ofRichard being rescued from the gallows. The volume includes:List of contents (f. 1v);Dedicatory verses (f. 2v);Genealogical table of descendants of Saint Louis (f. 3);Historia de proelis in French (ff. 5-24v) (History of Battles) about Alexander,

• Miniature of Richard being rescued from the gallows., Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book')

Miniature ofRichard being rescued from the gallows. The volume includes:List of contents (f. 1v);Dedicatory verses (f. 2v);Genealogical table of descendants of Saint Louis (f. 3);Historia de proelis in French (ff. 5-24v) (History of Battles) about Alexander, king of Macedonia

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Nectanebus., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

Voyages of Marco Polo in a revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for Charles's of Valois projected crusade and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France

• Detail of a miniature of Darius, king of Persia ordering the chiselling of a marble slab in order to make a portrait of Alexander., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

Detail of a miniature of Darius, king of Persia ordering the chiselling of a marble slab in order to make a portrait of Alexander. Includes 8 works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts:

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander and his soldiers fighting with crabs, with a preliminary sketch in the lower margin., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

Voyages of Marco Polo in a revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for Charles's of Valois projected crusade and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander receiving tribute from the citizens of Babylon., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

Voyages of Marco Polo in a revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for Charles's of Valois projected crusade and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander sending letters to Olympias and Aristotle, mistakenly represented as a woman., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

Voyages of Marco Polo in a revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for Charles's of Valois projected crusade and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France

• Flourished puzzle initial 'B'(eatus), at the beginning of the Breviary., Breviary, Brigittine use

[f. i]); purchased by Bennett in April 1897.Richard Bennett of Riversdale, Manchester: affixed the booklabel 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith' (inside lower cover, [f. vi]); his sale of the 'Morris' manuscripts, 5 December 1898, lot 815.

• Flourished puzzle initial 'Q'(uid), in the Breviary., Breviary, Brigittine use

[f. i]); purchased by Bennett in April 1897.Richard Bennett of Riversdale, Manchester: affixed the booklabel 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith' (inside lower cover, [f. vi]); his sale of the 'Morris' manuscripts, 5 December 1898, lot 815.

• Flourished puzzle initial 'E'(xultate), in the Breviary., Breviary, Brigittine use

[f. i]); purchased by Bennett in April 1897.Richard Bennett of Riversdale, Manchester: affixed the booklabel 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith' (inside lower cover, [f. vi]); his sale of the 'Morris' manuscripts, 5 December 1898, lot 815.

• Flourished puzzle initial 'D'(ixit), in the Breviary., Breviary, Brigittine use

[f. i]); purchased by Bennett in April 1897.Richard Bennett of Riversdale, Manchester: affixed the booklabel 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith' (inside lower cover, [f. vi]); his sale of the 'Morris' manuscripts, 5 December 1898, lot 815.

• Flourished puzzle initial 'R'(egem), including the wounds of Chris, at the beginning of an Office of the Brigittine nuns., Breviary, Brigittine use

Flourished puzzle initial 'R'(egem), including the wounds of Chris, at the beginning of an Office of the Brigittine nuns. 18 large puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in purple and red, with green and yellow wash, developing

• Drawing of a knight on horseback., The romance poem 'Roberte the Devyll'

Drawing of a knight on horseback. ff. i and ii are book-plates affixed to the inside upper cover; f. iii is a note by Francis Douce on paper about the manuscript affixed to a paper flyleaf; f. iv is an

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of king David pointing to his eyes at Psalm 26: 'Dominus illuminatio mea' / 'The Lord is my light', and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 2-5), a litany (ff. 143-146), and excerpts from the New Testament

1515), of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire; son of John Capell of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(antate) of monks singing at a lecturn, at Psalm 97: 'Cantate domino canticum novum' / 'Sing to the Lord a new song', and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 2-5), a litany (ff. 143-146), and excerpts from the New Testament

1515), of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire; son of John Capell of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of

• Historiated initial 'V'(erba) of Jerome in his study and a full border with acanthus motifs and sprays., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 2-5), a litany (ff. 143-146), and excerpts from the New Testament

1515), of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire; son of John Capell of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of

• Initial 'N'(unc) in red with pen-flourished decoration., Collection of theological treatises, including Hilton's 'The scale of perfection' (ff. 1-51) and Hampole's commentary on the Song of Songs, part 4 (ff. 126v-129v)

fraction 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. Decorated initial Written by two scribes Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle of

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcianus) at the beginning of book 5., Polychronicon with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), imperfect at the end, vol. 2

Decorated initial 'M'(arcianus) at the beginning of book 5. This manuscript is volume 2 of 2 volumes: vol. 1 is Harley 1728. The text of this volume starts at the end of book 3.Catchwords. 4 initials in colours and gold