• Micrographical design of birds on trees at the beginning of Samuel., Prophets with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Micrographical design of birds on trees at the beginning of Samuel. In two volumes: Harley 5774 and Harley 5775.Watermark, f. [iii], of a of a crowned coat of arms (presumably with a fleur-de-lis and with the monogram 'WR'), similar

• Full border of micrographical design at the beginning of Jeremiah., Prophets with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Full border of micrographical design at the beginning of Jeremiah. In two volumes: Harley 5774 and Harley 5775.Watermark, f. [iii], of a of a crowned coat of arms (presumably with a fleur-de-lis and with the monogram 'WR'), similar to

• Micrography of a bird on a tree at the beginning of Joel., Prophets with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Micrography of a bird on a tree at the beginning of Joel. In two volumes: Harley 5774 and Harley 5775.Watermark, f. [iii], of a of a crowned coat of arms (presumably with a fleur-de-lis and with the monogram 'WR'),

• Full border of micrographical design of floral and geometric motifs and lion heads, at the end of Malachi., Prophets with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Full border of micrographical design of floral and geometric motifs and lion heads, at the end of Malachi. In two volumes: Harley 5774 and Harley 5775.Watermark, f. [iii], of a of a crowned coat of arms (presumably with a

• Detail of inhabited initial 'A'., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

gold. Paraphs in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Capitals highlighted in red. Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it

• Detail of a miniature of a judge and a court in session., Orationes

1483: colophon 'Hic liber est iussu nostro perscriptus et ere/Ut servet marci dicta sonora diu./Ipse velim cartas membranis semper arari/quas magna autores arte tulere boni/Cetera tu fragili depone volumina libro/in quorum astridet triste sophisina labris.[follow 2 deleted lines] 1483 iiii

• Historiated initial 'A', with foliate borders., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

gold. Paraphs in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Capitals highlighted in red. Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it

• Detail: decorated initial-word panel at the beginning of 1 Chronicles., Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible') with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail: decorated initial-word panel at the beginning of 1 Chronicles. Unfoliated blank leaves after ff. 12 (ff. [12a], [12b]), 448.Hebrew foliation from f. 13 starting with alef, that is, 1 until f. 124 (Hebrew fol. 113). Hebrew foliation restarts

• Arcade framing a ~masoretic~ list., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (the 'Harley Catalan Bible')

Arcade framing a ~masoretic~ list. Watermark, of a lamb holding a cross (f. [ii]) and initials of JW (f. [425]), of James Whatman II, paper maker (1764-1793). Gilt edges.Foliation is written on the verso side of the leaves. Hebrew

• Arcade framing a ~masoretic~ list., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (the 'Harley Catalan Bible')

Arcade framing a ~masoretic~ list. Watermark, of a lamb holding a cross (f. [ii]) and initials of JW (f. [425]), of James Whatman II, paper maker (1764-1793). Gilt edges.Foliation is written on the verso side of the leaves. Hebrew

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child, at the beginning of Cantiques., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

French listing the content of the volume, 14th century (f. 400v).Roland Draper of Harbarowe (Market Harborough, co. Leicester, or Harborough Magna, co. Warwick), inscribed with his name, 15th-16th century? (f. 183), inscriptions in his hand (f. 108, 211, 358, 380).John

• Miniature of Amos as a shepherd, at the beginning of Amos, with the instruction for an illuminator in the margin; 'I saint berger / garde de berbis et / vois d'ange'., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

French listing the content of the volume, 14th century (f. 400v).Roland Draper of Harbarowe (Market Harborough, co. Leicester, or Harborough Magna, co. Warwick), inscribed with his name, 15th-16th century? (f. 183), inscriptions in his hand (f. 108, 211, 358, 380).John

• In the lower margin is an added historiated initial 'D' of God in a cloud throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin. Volume I contains Genesis-Psalms; volume II contains Proverbs-Revelation.Originally written without a break after Psalms, as shown by the

• Historiated initial 'S'(alve) with the Tree of Jesse with the Virgin and Child at its apex. The body of the letter is decorated with reserved designs and pen-flourishing extending into the margins. The flourishing includes acorns, oak and ivy leaves, a bird and a hybrid creature with the head of a king, a reference to the subject depicted inside the letter., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany' ; beginning and end imperfect), part 2

of the Holy Cross, Waltham, Essex (founded 1177): inscribed 'Explicit liber q[ue] intitulatur liber niger qui fuit inventus cu[m] cruce magna de Waltham S[an]c]t]e Crucis' (f. 18v). This colophon indicates that this treatise was copied from the now lost 'Liber

• Detail of a miniature of Amos as a shepherd, at the beginning of Amos., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

French listing the content of the volume, 14th century (f. 400v).Roland Draper of Harbarowe (Market Harborough, co. Leicester, or Harborough Magna, co. Warwick), inscribed with his name, 15th-16th century? (f. 183), inscriptions in his hand (f. 108, 211, 358, 380).John

• Detail of a miniature of the Virgin and Child, at the beginning of Cantiques., La bible historiale complétée, 2nd volume, imperfect

French listing the content of the volume, 14th century (f. 400v).Roland Draper of Harbarowe (Market Harborough, co. Leicester, or Harborough Magna, co. Warwick), inscribed with his name, 15th-16th century? (f. 183), inscriptions in his hand (f. 108, 211, 358, 380).John

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statute book, Statuta Angliae), beginning with the Carta Foresta (9 Henry III)

blue and/or red. Capitals marked in red. Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statute book, Statuta Angliae), beginning with the Carta Foresta (9 Henry III) Added texts at the end, in Latin and French, 14th century (ff. 162v-163).Inscription with the

• Table of contents., Ethica (index Ethics), Politica (index Politics), Rhetorica (index Rhetoric), Pseudo-Aristotle's Economica (index Economics), Magna moralia

Table of contents. Pecia marks. The Magna moralia is copied from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 16584; that MS includes the Ethics, Magna moralia, and Metaphysics (see Pannier 1991). 1 historiated initial with three-sided foliate border and bas-de-page scene,

• Initials and border with penwork decoration in foliate design with hybrid creatures., A collection of statutes, including a calendar (ff. 1-6v), a table of the Magna Charta clauses (ff. 8-14v), Edward I's 1297 Magna Charta (ff. 15-25v), Edward I's Charter of the Forrest (ff. 25v- 30v), an extract from a register from the Benedictine Priory of Eye in Suffolk (ff. 68-71), the statutes of Berewike (possibly Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland; ff. 191-192) and York (ff. 262v-267), and the Ordinationes issued by Edward II in 1311 (ff. 231-262v)

red and blue. A collection of statutes, including a calendar (ff. 1-6v), a table of the Magna Charta clauses (ff. 8-14v), Edward I's 1297 Magna Charta (ff. 15-25v), Edward I's Charter of the Forrest (ff. 25v- 30v), an extract from

• Initial-word panel ~Bereshit~ (in the beginning) in gold letters, embedded into a full-page miniature of a Gothic arched structure inhabited by a spread eagle, a deer, a lion and four dragons at the corners, at the beginning of Genesis., Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onkelos (ff. 1-290), small pieces on the feasts (ff. 291-293v), Five Scrolls (ff. 294-313v) and ~Haftarot~ with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (ff. 314-358).

Initial-word panel ~Bereshit~ (in the beginning) in gold letters, embedded into a full-page miniature of a Gothic arched structure inhabited by a spread eagle, a deer, a lion and four dragons at the corners, at the beginning of Genesis.