• Bloodletting man and lunar-zodiac table in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Bloodletting man and lunar-zodiac table in a physician's folding almanac. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man

• Tables, bloodletting man and table of lunar-zodiacal correspondences., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Tables, bloodletting man and table of lunar-zodiacal correspondences. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man (f. [5v]).

• Calendar for January and February in a physician's folding almanac., Physician's folding almanac, including a calendar (ff. [1]-[4])

Calendar for January and February in a physician's folding almanac. An English portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical and computus information. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey 2003. Bloodletting man

• Detail of illuminated initial., De Regimine Principis

Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or blue. De Regimine Principis Inscriptions in English, 15th-century (ff. 1v, 90v, 91).Thomas More's 'Rueful Lamentation' on the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1503 (ff. 88v-89).Sir Hans Sloane

• Miniature with the portrait of King Henry VIII, and the beginning of John Croke's English translation of Psalms., Psalms in English verse (girdle book)

VIII, and the beginning of John Croke's English translation of Psalms. A very small girdle book, bound in gold.John Croke was one of the clerks in Chancery.Contents: ff. 2-5: Veni Creator; ff. 6-68v: seven Penitential Psalms followed by the Gloria

• Miniature of the Deposition, decorated initial 'D'(eus), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

1533), queen of France, consort of Louis XII: binding with the English arms quartering France modern surrounded by a crown and flanked by the letters 'M' and 'R'.Inscriptions in English and Latin, dated 1511, 1513, and 1515 (ff. 2v-3).Inscription in

• Marginal drawing of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man. 3 large foliate initials in blue, red, and green (ff. 1, 9, 26v). Initials for the

• Coat of arms., Text regarding English laws

English laws Part 1: Effaced inscription (f. 86).Mundeford family?, 1445: inscribed in the calendar 'hac die nata e[st] anna Mundeford. Anno d[omi]ni m cccc xl v^o^' (f. 6).Added prayer 'Obsecro te', 15th-century cursive hand (ff. 84-6). Added text in

• Initial-word panel formed as a castle., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.Inscription in English: ‘This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in

• Initial-word panel formed as a castle, with a male bust and a hare in the margin., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.Inscription in English: ‘This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in

• Detail of pen drawings of a male bust and a hare in the margin., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.Inscription in English: ‘This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in

• Initial 'D'(omine) decorated with foliate forms on a gold ground with full border in gold and colours., Book of Hours

red or blue. Book of Hours Added prayer in Dutch, 16th century (f. 113).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial and border Netherlands Netherlands, S., or France, N.

• Illuminated initials 'D'(etestabilem) and 'V'(olo) on coloured grounds with white tracery., Compilation of patristic texts, imperfect

(ff. 1-125).Patristic compilation: 7 quires missing at the beginning and at least 5 at the end, as suggested by the old foliation '70-189, 193-196, 244' (ff. 1-125). Illuminated initials on coloured grounds with black or white tracery. Rubrics in light

• Initial-word panel with pen-flourishing and a medallion formed by foliate motifs: a rooster holding a piece of wheat with a snake coiling on it in its beak, and above the rooster, there is a moon and a hexagram; probably the emblem of the patron., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.Inscription in English: ‘This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in

• Historiated initials accompanying prayers to the wound in the holy foot of Christ and to an image of the Virign., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Christ and to an image of the Virign. Including a calendar containing numerous English saints (ff. 1-6v), the Fifteen Oes of Saint Bridget (ff. 7-12), Suffrages (ff. 13-23v), the mixed Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross with Suffrages

• Detail of an initial-word panel with pen-flourishing and a medallion formed by foliate motifs: a rooster holding a piece of wheat with a snake coiling on it in its beak, and above the rooster, there is a moon and a hexagram; probably the emblem of the patron., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.Inscription in English: ‘This Book called Baal Lashon i.e. Master of Language is an Hebrew Dictionary composed by R. Joseph Zark in

• Illuminated initial 'C'(antate) and three-sided border with acanthus leaves., Psalter, imperfect (See Notes)

acanthus leaves. Contains a calendar including numerous English saints (ff. 1-6v). Starts in the middle of Psalm 3. Ends with the litany (including Dunstan, 'Ragenflede', Grumbald index Rumbald, Etheldrede, Wulfran, Cuthbert, etc.)Catchwords, leaf signatures. 6 large decorated initials combined with

• Decorated initial., Miscellany of Irish texts

8* should be foliated 1-8; f. 9 follows after this sequence.ff. 1, 2 are inscribed with an English account of the contents of the manuscript, giving a brief description of each one of the 22 chapters.ff. 3-9v are paper flyleaves

• White vine initial 'E'(go) with three-sided border incorporating putti and heraldry, at the beginning of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

15th century and 16th century.Unidentified owner: inscribed with interlinear astrological symbols (f. 1, above the words 'officio', 'pietate', and 'meritorum').Unidentified English owner, 17th century: inscribed '£1-15-0' (f. 229v; cf. Burney 150, 168, 177, 208, 245; and see below).Charles Burney (b.

• Coloured initial 'A' (Licinius) and white vine initial 'A' (Genucilio) at the end of Book 13 and beginning of Book 14 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares (as divided in this manuscript). Next to the initial is an annotation noting that in other manuscripts this letter and those that follow are included in Book 13., Epistolae ad familiares

15th century and 16th century.Unidentified owner: inscribed with interlinear astrological symbols (f. 1, above the words 'officio', 'pietate', and 'meritorum').Unidentified English owner, 17th century: inscribed '£1-15-0' (f. 229v; cf. Burney 150, 168, 177, 208, 245; and see below).Charles Burney (b.