• Puzzle initial 'P'(uer) at the beginning of the music for Christmas day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Musical notation., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Text page with 9th century and 10th century scripts., Libri evangeliorum quattuor; Aenigmata; De arte metrica (extract)

late 15th-century library catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey, no.1438, with the shelfmark D.xi Gii (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) and Barker-Benfield 2008).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intial 'P'(luribus)., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial foliate borders with decorated initials 'A' and 'S', and a bird in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intials 'I' and 'C', and a hare in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Historiated initials 'D' (e) and 'P'(er), with faces., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial border with a decorated initial 'A'(ve) at a hymn to the Virgin Mary, and a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

margin. ff. 51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of

• Puzzle initial 'C'(ogitanti) at the beginning of book 4 of Ambrose's De fide, (although the word should be 'Consideranti') with delicate red and blue penwork decoration in the bowl of the letter., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• Puzzle initial 'R'(esurrexi) at the beginning of the music for Easter day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises.

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the

• Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de

• Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel,