• Puzzle initial 'E'(duuardus) at the beginning of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I, Statutes of England (index Statuta Angliae, Statute book) preceded by (ff. 1-7v) a list of contents

of Harefield: with his armorial bookplate engraved with his motto and the legend 'Sr. George Cooke / of the Inner-Temple, London. / Chief Prothonotary of the Court / of Common-Pleas Westminster / 1727'.Francis Hargrave (b. 1740/41, d. 1821), legal writer.Purchased

• null, De chorographia (ff. 1-23), and other works, including an account of a sea voyage (ff. 23v-25v)

(his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7931): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12837, bought by Burney for £1 2s.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical

• Sketch of a blood-letting man 'Awe, wie we ist mir', at the end of the of the Versus de sanitate per menses., Miscellany, with a calendar and medical texts

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Diagram., Medical miscellany, including a plant glossary, the Pseudo-Macer's De viribus herbarum (ff. 222-233)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, to 1285

(f. 2).Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (inside upper

• Historiated initial 'O' of the beheading of John the Baptist., Cuttings from a choir book

W. Y. Ottley's Collection. / F. M.'.Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1088; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £4

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Lawrence reading a book and holding a palm leaf, at his feet the gridiron of his martyrdom., Cuttings from a choir book

W. Y. Ottley's Collection. / F. M.'.Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1088; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £4

• Historiated initial 'S' of the Lamentation over the Dead Christ., Cutting from a choir book

W. Y. Ottley's Collection. / F. M.'.Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1088; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £4

• Full-page miniature in colours and gold, of Peace and Justice kissing within a painted ornamental frame with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Priuli family of Venice., Leaf from a Ducal Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Priuli

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'O' of the Cross (top centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of Francis showing his stigmata (lower centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Miniature of prince Henry in armour on horse-back (oxidised)., 'Le Pourtraict de Monseigneur le Prince': a description of Henry Frederick, prince of Wales, as a champion of Protestantism

Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 86, f. 86, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Prince Henry in armour on horse-back England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'V'(erba) of Jerome in his study., Psalter with a calendar (ff. 2-5), a litany (ff. 143-146), and excerpts from the New Testament

Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, while Capell was imprisoned in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(nno) with pen-flourishing including ivy leaves., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum

(index Robert Yvory), 'frater' and 'Magister Provincialis' of the Carmelites, London (1372-1392): inscription recording the gift of the manuscript by Robertus Yvory to the convent (f. 1).A Carmelite convent, London, 14th century: inscription recording the gift of the manuscript by

• Decorated initial 'A'(nima) combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of book 3., Elucidarium

value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Honorius Augustodunensis (index Honorius d'Autun, Honorius of Autun) London England, S. E. (London)

• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of the Nativity, in brown ink, combined with a full border in colours and gold with acanthus leaves and flowers, at the beginning of an indenture dated 1529., Indentures dated to the 21st year in the reign of Henry VIII

nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Nativity London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Pen-flourished initial 'P'(ie recordationis affectu, fratres carissimi)., Fragments of a liturgical manuscript, including De commendatione animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation

animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation Dame Elizabeth Horwode, abbess of the convent of Franciscan nuns without Aldgate, London: late-fifteenth century colophon requesting that the book remain at the convent and that the sisters pray for her father

• Pen-flourished initials 'I'(n) and 'M'(ultitudine)., Devotional miscellany, including the Meditationes ascribed to Augustine, William of Rymington's Meditationes (ff. 34-45)

recto.On the Sheen reclusory, near Richmond, Surrey, see Lawrence Hendriks, ~The London Charterhouse: Its Monks and its Martyrs, with a Short Account of the English Carthusians after the Dissolution~ (London: Kegan Paul, 1889), p. 13. Initials in blue with red

• Text page with manumissions in Latin and Old English., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Text page with decorated initial 'N'(ovum) and manumissions in lower margin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,