• Historiated white vine initial 'I'(nter) with the head of a king (Alexander), with the white vine forming a partial border. The white vine border features 2 butterflies, 1 bird, and winged putti supporting a wreath where possibly some armorial motif once featured but has been erased (f. 1)., Historia Alexandri Magni

1696: inscribed 'Alexander Bouteroue' followed by a crossed-out date with the year 1696 (f. 1*v).Paul Vaillant (b. 1672, d. 1739), London bookseller: sold to Edward Harley on 11th April 1720 (see Wright 1972 and ~Diary~ 1966). The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'D'(omine) with full border featuring feathering, gold besants and acanthus at the beginning of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, imperfect

Julij 1720’ (2nd flyleaf at the beginning). This manuscript was bought on that date, probably from Christopher Bateman (fl. 1698-1730), London bookseller and auctioneer (Wright 1972, p. 66). Edward Harley bequeathed his library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles

• Decorated initial 'C'(y commence) at the beginning of the text., Treatise on falconry ('Livre de faulconerie')

formation de ce dépôt~ 3 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), I, pp. 373-380. Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London: included in auction at Paul's Coffee House, 20 February 1720/1, lot 60; bought through Nathaniel Noel, bookseller, by Humfrey

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Epistulae ad familiares (index Epistolae ad familiares)

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

• Text page., Breviary, use of Le Mans (Breviarum Cenomanense), with a calendar, lectionary and psalms

supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 15, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnibus) with blue penwork extensions., Eighty-eight sermons on the Gospel of John (index Homiliae 88 in S. Johannem)

Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; 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

• Illuminated white vine-stem border and illuminated initial 'A'(ntequam), with square capitals used as display script in an unfinished four-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's Philippic orations., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

292 to the same scribe; see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.Unidentified owner: with their overpainted arms, perhaps including a circle in the lower half

• Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'V'(ellem), and square capitals in a three-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's ninth Philippic oration., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

292 to the same scribe; see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.Unidentified owner: with their overpainted arms, perhaps including a circle in the lower half

• Puzzle initial with penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 10 of Vergil's Aeneid., Aeneid, and others

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; its book-plate with the

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

292 to the same scribe; see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.Unidentified owner: with their overpainted arms, perhaps including a circle in the lower half

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

292 to the same scribe; see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.Unidentified owner: with their overpainted arms, perhaps including a circle in the lower half

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

292 to the same scribe; see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.Unidentified owner: with their overpainted arms, perhaps including a circle in the lower half

• Puzzle initial 'P' and flourished display script 'Ulpianus', in Justinian's Digestum Novum., Glossed Digestum Novum, preceeded by an added table of contents (ff. 1-2v)

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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated initial 'H'(e) at the beginning of John Lydgate's Fall of Princes., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)

beast of c. 1520 commissioned by him (cf. ~Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547~, ed. by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London: V & A Publications, 2003), no. 156 [exhibition catalogue]; 'mastres ellenore suster to lord dacres (f. 1v). ? Anne

• Illuminated initials and decorated verses in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes., The Fall of Princes (index De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)

beast of c. 1520 commissioned by him (cf. ~Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547~, ed. by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London: V & A Publications, 2003), no. 156 [exhibition catalogue]; 'mastres ellenore suster to lord dacres (f. 1v). ? Anne

• Miniature of the Flight into Egypt, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of the virtues and vices., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniature with allegories., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Miniature with allegories., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

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. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of a page: full foliate border in the margins inhabited by a lion, a peacock, a bird, and a dragon., Lisbon Mishneh Torah, volume 1

have watermarks similar to Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks~ (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae Historiam Illustrantia, I) (Hilversum: Paper Publication Society, 1950), no. 2745 [London, 1755].Erasures by a censor (e.g. on ff. 38, 54v, 55, 264v, 266, 272v). 1 title page surrounded by penwork