• Detail of a historiated initial 'P'(aucos) with a portrait of Petrarch seated in a garden, reading a book., Opuscula varia (index various works)

Petrarch standing (f. 29). Decorated border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, and 1 decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 63). 1 small decorated initial in gold and colours (f. 71). Initials in red or blue with

• Historiated initial 'I' of the lion symbol of Mark, extension of acanthus-like foliage and bezants with single hair-line embellishment, at the beginning of a Gospel extract from Mark 16:14-20., Leaves from a Book of Hours, containing Gospel extracts: John 1:1-14, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-120 and Luke 6:36-42

by Goertz for £35.Mrs Constance Goetze (d. 1951), wife of Sigismund C.H. Goetze, RA (b. 1866, d. 1939): her sale, 1 December 1942, lot 344, bought by Eisemann.Heinrich Eisemann, twentieth-century London book-dealer.The present leaves and bifolia purchased by the British

• Historiated initial 'I' of the angel symbol of Luke, extension of acanthus-like foliage and bezants with single hair-line embellishment, at the beginning of a Gospel extract from Luke 6:36-42., Leaves from a Book of Hours, containing Gospel extracts: John 1:1-14, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-120 and Luke 6:36-42

by Goertz for £35.Mrs Constance Goetze (d. 1951), wife of Sigismund C.H. Goetze, RA (b. 1866, d. 1939): her sale, 1 December 1942, lot 344, bought by Eisemann.Heinrich Eisemann, twentieth-century London book-dealer.The present leaves and bifolia purchased by the British

• Illuminated initial 'C'(ai[us])., Epistolae (index Letters)

on the verso.There is a pastedown with an inscription on f. 1. Ruled in hardpoint. Quire signatures: A, B, etc. Written in Italy, possibly Venice c. 1420, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian

• Decorated initial 'T'(obie) with foliate border., Job and Tobit in the later Wycliffite version

and pink large initials on a gold background with a three-sided foliate border (ff. 1, 47). Gold initial and text have been rubbed away (f. 1). Large blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each chapter. Job and

• Decorated initial with zoomorphic motifs., Cartulary of Waltham Abbey, Essex

Robert Fuller and divided into 5 volumes. This was the first volume, as suggested by a 18th-cent. note (f. 1). Its contents relate to the abbey's rights and privileges in churches, manors and forests and include numerous royal and episcopal

• Puzzle initial 'A' with pen-flourishing, and initial 'H'(ere) with pen-flourishing., Wycliffe Religious Tracts: De salutaribus documentis (ff. 1-66v); De vita Christiana (ff. 66v-97v); De creatione (ff. 97v-100v); De duodecim abusionibus (ff. 97-199v), incomplete

salutaribus documentis~ff. 66v-97v: ~De Vita Christiana~ff. 97v-100v: ~De Creatione~ff. 97v-199v (incomplete): ~De Duodecim Abusionibus~ 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each section. Paraphs and chapter

• White vine initial 'M'(ecenas) and, in the lower margin, the bookstamps of Pandolfo di Ricasoli and the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Florence., Odes (index Carmina)

in colours and foliate extensions (ff. 1, 21). Numerous plain initials in blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red. Odes (index Carmina) Pandolfo di Ricasoli, baron, of Florence: his bookstamp, 17th century (ff. 1, 71v).The Convent of Discalced Carmelites,

• Puzzle initial 'A'(me) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Ars grammatica

(f. 1). Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to the Harleys on 20 January 1721/22 (f. 1; see

• Decorated headpiece and initial., Basil's 'De legendis libris gentilium' (ff. 1-11v), Isocrates's 'Ad Nicoclem', 'Ad Demonicum' and 'Nicocles' (ff. 13-20, 21-28v, 29-37v), and Plutarch's 'De curiositate' and 'De adulatore et amico' (ff. 39-46, 46v-72v)

Decorated headpiece and initial. A table of contents in Latin (f. 2* verso).ff. 1-20 are palimpsest in Latin.ff. 12 and 38 are blank. Decorated headpiece and initial in red (f. 21). Titles and initials in red. Basil's 'De legendis

• Headpiece with interlace and foliate decoration and initial with foliate decoration, Miscellany of works attributed to Dionysius Areopagite with paraphrases by Pachymeres, including 'De caelesti hierarchia' (ff. 7v-62), 'De divinis nominibus' (ff. 62-143v), 'De ecclesiastica hierarchia' (ff. 143v-191v), and Letters (ff. 198v-223)

(Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Coll. Agen. Soc. Jesu Cat. Insc' (f. 1; see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer,

• Headpiece with foliate and geometric decoration and decorated initial., 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4

geometric and foliate decoration, decorated initials and titles in brown (ff. 1, 18v, 54v, 76v, 102v). Decorated initials, rubrics and marginalia in brown. 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4 Written by Georgios Tribizias, a Greek priest in Venice (ff. 1-146; see

• Historiated initial 'V'(oi) at the beginning of Petrarch's Il Canzoniere, with an image of Petrarch, shown before a lectern with an open book before him in the bowl of the initial, and a miniature on the right-hand side of the page of Petrarch's muse, Laura, beside a laurel tree, framed with a three-sided border made up of foliate scrolls and gold balls., Il Canzoniere

made up of foliate scrolls and gold balls. 1 small miniature, in colours and gold (f. 1). 2 large historiated initials, accompanied by a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 34). Smaller initials in gold on red

• Historiated initial 'I'(vo) of Petrarch holding a closed book, and a foliate border with gold balls, at the beginning of Petrarch's 264th canzone., Il Canzoniere

balls, at the beginning of Petrarch's 264th canzone. 1 small miniature, in colours and gold (f. 1). 2 large historiated initials, accompanied by a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 34). Smaller initials in gold on red

• Puzzle initial 'A', at the beginning of the Repertorium juris civilis., Repertorium juris civilis

Puzzle initial 'A', at the beginning of the Repertorium juris civilis. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 1).1 smaller puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 110v). 5 smaller initials in red or blue, some with

• Puzzle initial 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and border decoration around the two columns, at the beginning of Johannes de Hesdinio's Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job., Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job

Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in blue and red, accompanied by a border decoration in red and blue around the two columns (f. 1). Small initials in red with

• Historiated initial 'C'(ome) of king Edward III, crowned with a scepter on a throne, and a full border with a dragon, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

with a dragon, at the beginning of the first statute of Edward III. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Decorated initial 'R'(ichard), with a bar and foliate extensions, at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book) for Edward III (ff. 1-212v) and Richard II (ff. 213-329v)

at the beginning of the first statute under the government of Richard II. 1 historiated initial, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 22). 1 large initial in gold on a ground in red and blue, with

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum, and the inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

s(an)c(t)e marie in Eb(ir)bach' (ff. 1, 145v), and mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as '7 [sign after 'Z'] 1' or 'a29' (see Palmer 1998, pp. 258, 262).Inscribed 'Z 140' (f. 1); similar inscriptions consisting of a

• Decorated headpiece and brown initial 'K'(ai), in the Apophthegemata Patrum., Apophthegemata Patrum, of 'Sabaite type'

profuse 17th century annotations added throughout.Emmanouel Kallonas (second half of the 17th century inscription, vol. 1, f. 1).Partial Greek inscription dated 2 March 1681 (vol. 1, f. 1).Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art: