• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ish~ (a man), at the beginning of Job., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ish~ (a man), at the beginning of Job. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling is visible.Since the style of the illumination points to the end

• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Divrei~ (the words of), at the beginning of Ecclesiastes., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Divrei~ (the words of), at the beginning of Ecclesiastes. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling is visible.Since the style of the illumination points to the

• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ekhah~ (how), at the beginning of Lamentations., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ekhah~ (how), at the beginning of Lamentations. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling is visible.Since the style of the illumination points to the end of

• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Bi-shnat~ (in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by an ox-like hybrid, at the beginning of Daniel., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Bi-shnat~ (in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by an ox-like hybrid, at the beginning of Daniel. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol.

• 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

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

Detail of a decorated initial-word panel at the beginning of 1 Kings. 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

• Detail of a panel inhabited by a wild duck at the end of Samuel., Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible') with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a panel inhabited by a wild duck at the end of Samuel. 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.

• 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

• 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 page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ha-masa~ (the burden) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Habakkuk., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Ha-masa~ (the burden) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Habakkuk. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling is visible.Since the

• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Bi-shnat~ (in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Haggai., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~Bi-shnat~ (in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Haggai. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling is

• Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~U-vi-shnat~ (and in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Ezra-Nehemiah., Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Detail of a page: decorated initial-word panel ~U-vi-shnat~ (and in the year of) accompanied with a foliate border inhabited by hybrids, at the beginning of Ezra-Nehemiah. Bible in two volumes: Harley 5710 (vol. 1) and Harley 5711 (vol. 2).Ruling

• 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 'O'(mnis) and unidentified arms at the beginning of Sallust's Catalina. Both decorated initial and arms may be later additions., Catilina (imperfect)

yellow. Catilina (imperfect) Unidentified arms inscribed 'I A 8?' (added 16th century?, f. 1).Inscribed in Italian, 17th-18th century 'Manca una carta sola De conjuratione Catilina' (f. 19v).John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 28 August February 1724

• Historiated initial 'L'(ibrum) of Jerome giving a book to a boy, at the beginning of the prologue to Esther, and historiated initial 'I'(n diebus) of King Ahasuerus' feast with Esther, princes and three musicians, at the beginning of Esther., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned in his will (see above]. Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned inherited from his father,

• Historiated initial 'A'(nno) of Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem, at the beginning of Daniel., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned in his will (see above]. Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned inherited from his father,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Jerome as a cardinal giving a book to a kneeling young man, at the beginning of the argumentum to Malachi., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned in his will (see above]. Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned inherited from his father,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O'(nus) of Malachi with a scroll reading 'in quo dilexisti nos', and Israelites and God with a scroll reading 'Dilexi vos'., Bible (the 'Big' or 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names

and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned in his will (see above]. Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine: perhaps the magna Biblia mentioned inherited from his father,