• Detail of a miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the manuscript includes both

• Miniature with two men addressing the emperor Justinian, and a foliate initial 'O'(ccupatis), at the beginning of Justinian's Digestum Vetus., Glossed Arbor Actionum, Volumen Parvum, and Liber Feudorum, preceeded by a table of actiones (ff. 1v-2), and a table of content (ff. 3-4v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.31’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Foliate initial 'I'(mp[er]atoriam), and flourished heading 'Imperator', at the beginning of the Institutionum juris libri quatuor., Glossed Arbor Actionum, Volumen Parvum, and Liber Feudorum, preceeded by a table of actiones (ff. 1v-2), and a table of content (ff. 3-4v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.31’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the

• Diagram., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial 'F'(uit) of the Anoiting of David., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial, with a king in bed, and pointing to a building., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Text page., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Penwork initial 'P' in green and red, at the beginning of the Epistles of Paul., Glossed Pauline Epistles; treatise on prayer, Donatio Constantini, excerpta from Augustine and Jerome

et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6513 or 6523.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated and foliate initial 'O' in colours and gold, of Clare of Assisi. The saint is barefoot, and holding a lily and a book., Cutting from a service book

by her soon after World War II through her brother, Tomás Harris, managing director of the Spanish Art Gallery in London. Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of inheritance tax from the estates of Miss Violeta Harris and her sister,

• Detail of decorated initials, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Detail of initial 'M'(arcus) with interlace and bird's head decoration, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Detail of initial with bird's head decoration, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Puzzle initial 'G'(od) and a ciborium, in the Breviary., Breviary, including computistic circles, table, and instructions, a caldenar of Utrecht, a Psalter, a standard lay Breviary text with a Psalter and the Office of the Dead, a litany, and an added Office of Barbara

Inscription, 18th century: 'Theyers Constanten'(?) (1st flyleaf).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9th December 1848 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Miniature of David, puzzle initial 'S' developing a border including a peacock, in the Breviary., Breviary, including computistic circles, table, and instructions, a caldenar of Utrecht, a Psalter, a standard lay Breviary text with a Psalter and the Office of the Dead, a litany, and an added Office of Barbara

Inscription, 18th century: 'Theyers Constanten'(?) (1st flyleaf).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9th December 1848 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Illuminated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Decorated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Initial 'P'(ost) with white vine decoration, at the beginning of Pliny 's Epistola 2., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought