• Miniature of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and an initial letter 'D'., Cuttings from Missals of Innocent X

Agony in the Garden, the Crowning with Thorns, the Road to Calvary, and the Flagellation), and portraits of the Evangelists John (lower left) and Matthew (lower right) in monochrome. In the lower border, flanked by two winged putti and doves,

• Detail of a miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of a miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A.

• Detail of a white vine initial 'M'., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of a white vine initial 'M'. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Leaf signatures. Catchwords.Written by two scribes and decorated in different

• Detail of arms from the lower border of the folio., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of arms from the lower border of the folio. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Leaf signatures. Catchwords.Written by two scribes and

• null, Prayer book

Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. John the Baptist Master of the Ghent Gradual Ghent Netherlands, S. (Ghent or Tournai)

• Detail of illuminated initial., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Detail of illuminated initial. 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold

• Diagram., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Diagram. 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with foliate decoration,

• Text page with volvelle., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Text page with volvelle. 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold

• Text page with volvelle., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Text page with volvelle. 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold

• Detail of decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam)., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Detail of decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam). 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam)., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam). 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold with

• Decorated initials and diagram., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

Decorated initials and diagram. 2 historiated initials, in colours and gold, and partial bar borders with zoomorphic elements (ff. 129, 133v). 1 partial bar border incorporating a large hybrid (f. 3). Large initials in colours and silver and gold

• null, Bible, with prologues

The Psalms have the 10-part divisions. Glosses, especially dense in Luke. With an added Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 331v-356v), a treatise on dreams (ff. 356v-364v) and a table of readings for the year, including the feast of St

• Decorated initial 'F'(ata) at the beginning of the text., Laurentias carmen

Decorated initial 'F'(ata) at the beginning of the text. ff. 244v-245 are written in Filelfo's hand, the rest of the manuscript was written in a different hand, but annotated by Filelfo.Catchwords. Leaf signatures.For another autograph manuscript by Filelfo, see

• Decorated initials on the incipit page of John, 'In principio.', Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

the incipit page of John, 'In principio.' One of 10 manuscripts of the so-called 'Ada group' that Koehler attributed to the 'court school' of Charlemagne. Canon tables in colours and gold, with symbols of the Evangelists, animals, and columns (ff.

• Text pages with marginal commentary and illuminated initial 'S'(ic), at the beginning of Book VI: 'Sic factur lacrimans, classique immittit habenas'., Aeneis (index Aeneid) , with a verse preface (ff. 1-201); Extract from Servius on Aeneis 6 (f. 202)

Text pages with marginal commentary and illuminated initial 'S'(ic), at the beginning of Book VI: 'Sic factur lacrimans, classique immittit habenas'. f. I is a paper flyleaf.Marginal commentary (ff. 87v to 97). 18 large initials in gold on red

• White vine historiated initial 'A'(dventus) with a man in bust with a wreath (Titus Livius) at the beginning of Livy's Ab urbe condita. White vine border with winged putti, deers, birds, rabbits, and a wreath enclosing the arms of Pope Pius II., Ab urbe condita (abbreviated) (ff. 1-60v); Epitoma de Tito Livio (index Epitome of Livy) (ff. 61-136)

White vine historiated initial 'A'(dventus) with a man in bust with a wreath (Titus Livius) at the beginning of Livy's Ab urbe condita. White vine border with winged putti, deers, birds, rabbits, and a wreath enclosing the arms of

• Full white vine border, inhabited by birds, with a roundel of Virgil, another of shepherds minding their sheep, a large initial 'T'(itire), and, in the lower margin, a wreath, intended for arms, supported by two putti., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-35); Georgica (index Georgics) (ff. 35-55v); Aeneis (index Aeneid) (ff. 55v-239v)

Rubrics in red or orange. Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-35); Georgica (index Georgics) (ff. 35-55v); Aeneis (index Aeneid) (ff. 55v-239v) John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 17 June 1721 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• White vine initial 'M'(undum)., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

White vine initial 'M'(undum). There is a ruled leaf after f. 175.Ruled in plummet; horizontal catchwords. Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by

• Historiated initial 'E'(t si) with a man in profile, holding a book combined with a foliate bar border with ivy and acanthus at the beginning of the text. Unidentified arms with a griffin. 15th-century notarial inscription in the lower margin., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

Historiated initial 'E'(t si) with a man in profile, holding a book combined with a foliate bar border with ivy and acanthus at the beginning of the text. Unidentified arms with a griffin. 15th-century notarial inscription in the lower