• Text page of ghost story from Byland, Yorkshire., De officiis (ff. 1-58v); Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 59-66); De amicitia (ff. 66v-83); De senectute (ff. 84-98); De inventione (index Rhetorica)(ff. 99-140)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6538.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Evangelist portrait of Mark, holding an open book, with his symbol above., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• An adaptation of Macrobius’s map of the five zones, with North is at the top, and the cardinal points marked with crosses. The names 'hispania, alpes, gades, balearia, sardinia, Sicilia, egiptus and asia' were not typically included in earlier Macrobius maps., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

2nd baronet, antiquary, in 1626: signature and note that he purchased the manuscript from a bookseller ('librario publico'), in Aldersgate, London, 1626 (f. 245); probably his ink foliation throughout.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos,

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

2nd baronet, antiquary, in 1626: signature and note that he purchased the manuscript from a bookseller ('librario publico'), in Aldersgate, London, 1626 (f. 245); probably his ink foliation throughout.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos,

• Illuminated initial 'T'(uit)., Life of Thomas Becket

a land grant, mostly with the name Thomas Denmars (?) (See Andrew G. Watson, ~The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes~ (London: British Museum, 1966), who identifies Surrey place names on ff. 66, 92, and 97v).Ownership inscription?, effaced (f. 122v). Part

• Decorated initials 'D'(um) and 'B'(ritannia) with penwork decoration and reserved lines, at the beginning of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae; one line filler; in the upper margin the number '39' inscribed by Sir Simonds d'Ewes., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

names (f. 80). Added, 15th century: 'Robert Clopton' and three other names with the years when each was mayor of London (on a piece of parchment fragment that is now pasted on f. 1) (see Watson 1966).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602,

• Foliate initial 'O'(mnium) with clasps and interlace., Boethius's Opuscula sacra 1-3 and 5, with the commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers, imperfect

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and inscribed with title in display capitals, and illuminated initial 'T'., Gospel lectionary with Menologion and Gospels for special services (Covel Gospel)

248v previously believed to be represented in the portrait of Humfrey Wanley by Thomas Hill in the Society of Antiquaries, London (see Heyworth 1989, frontispiece).Additional leaves on paper added by Covel probably in the late 17th century (ff. 1, 2,

• Decorated initials in Horace's Carmina., Carmina (index Odes) (ff. 1-38), Epodae (ff. 38-45), Carmen saeculares (ff. 45-46), Ars poetica (ff. 46v-53), Epistulae (ff. 53-69), and Sermones (index Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 69-92)

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uae) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• Initial 'N'(aso) and inscription of Roger Twysden, at the beginning of Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• Ownership inscriptions of monks of St. Mary, York., Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• Ownership inscription 'Iste liber est sororis anne ffelbrygge ad terminum vite post cuius decessum pertinebit conventui minorissarum de Brusyerde' (This book is Sister Anne Felbrygge's until the end of her life, after whose death it will belong to the convent of Minoresses [Franciscan nuns, also called Poor Clares] of Brusyerd)., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

called Poor Clares] of Brusyerd). For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to

• Calendar page for January, with illuminated 'KL' initial and roundel of Aquarius., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels,

• Calendar page for June, with illuminated 'KL' initial and roundel of a man with a scythe., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

scythe. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53.

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with David harping at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53. Calendar roundels,

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) with king David pointing to his eye at the beginning of Psalm 26., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

26. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53.

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) with king David pointing to his eye at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

38. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to Foot 1986 p. 53.

• Illuminated initial 'E(xurgat) with a man holding a raised club and a shield with a small dog sitting on top on the initial, at the beginning of Psalm 67., Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers

the beginning of Psalm 67. For the Felbrigg familly see generally R. W. Ketton-Cremer, ~Felbrigg: The Story of a House~ (London: Century, 1962), esp. p. 20 with reference to the manuscript.This is the earliest English embroidered binding known, according to