• Detail of a folio: Incipit: 'ramento capitur cum cetera…' Explicit: 'quinquagenas libras lundens cumi', Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

large white vine initial 'S'(equitur) in colours and gold (f. 176). 35 large white vine initials in colours and gold, 1 at the beginning of each book (ff. 20v, 35v, 44v, 52, 60v, 72v, 84v, 97, 107, 116v, 129, 135,

• Miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon; text with a decorative initial 'M', and decorated borders with a coat of arms., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Library, Oxford.Leaf signatures. Catchwords.Written by two scribes and decorated in different hands (change particularly noticeable from f. 91, for instance). 1 miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea,

• Detail of a miniature of the funeral of William the Conqueror in the Abbaye aux hommes at Caen; on the right, a miniature of Lanfranc crowning William Rufus before a watching group of men, from the Grande Chronique de Normandie., Grande Chronique de Normandie

date somewhere around 1465. 15 half-page miniatures, the first accompanied by a full foliate border, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 24v, 35v, 74, 88, 89, 101, 138v, 155v, 160v, 167, 176, 186, 213v, 244v). Large initials with monochrome grotesque

• Decorated iInitial 'Q'(uoniam) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of the prologue to Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

bello Judaico. 2 large initials in colours, at the beginning of the prologue and Book 1 (ff. 4, 5v). 6 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Books 2-7 (ff. 42,

• Puzzle initial 'N'(eronem) at the beginning of Book 3 of Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

Judaico. 2 large initials in colours, at the beginning of the prologue and Book 1 (ff. 4, 5v). 6 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Books 2-7 (ff. 42, 72,

• Illuminated white vine initial 'C'(um) with a three-sided border incorporating birds and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased), at the beginning of Justinus's Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Last page of Justinus's Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi, with the colophon by the Florentine scribe Amerigo Corsini (b. 1452, d. 1501: ‘Haec iustini volumina amerigus corsinus transcripsit., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of illuminated initial and upper border., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of lower border., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of text., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of heraldry., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

unlikely to date before about 1465. 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3). 1 large initial in colours and gold

• Detail of a roundel of a man warming himself before a fire, at the beginning of the calendar page for January., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of a medallion containing the zodiacal sign for Aquarius, at the beginning of the calendar page for January., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of the lower part of the full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures, facing the miniature at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of the upper part of the full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures, facing the miniature at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of a miniature of the Circumcision, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of the lower part of the full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of a section of the full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,

• Detail of a section of the full all'antica border with putti, gems, emblems, and biblical figures, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

for or after her marriage to Francesco Salviati in 1502: their arms, partly obliterated with gold (not obliterated on ff. 1, 20v, 31, 36v, 39v, 44v, 82, and 117v); the initials of Laudomia de' Medici and Francesco Salviati (ff. 33v,