• Miniature of two knights (Peter Courtenay and De Clary) on horseback jousting., Chroniques

and surmounted by a crowned helm with a mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue (f. 7).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le petit Froissart' in the list of books at Richmond

• Detail of a miniature of a king on horseback entering a walled city., Chroniques

and surmounted by a crowned helm with a mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue (f. 7).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le petit Froissart' in the list of books at Richmond

• Decorated initial word ~We-elleh~ (and these) with the moon, the sun and a star, at the beginning of Exodus., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• ~Carmina figurata~: Rashi's commentary in the outer margin is written in the form of a fleur-de-lis., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• Initial-word panel with penwork decoration and full border with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Numbers., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• Main text (end of Deuteronomy and a colophon of the scribe) is written in geometrical forms; Rashi's commentary and another colophon in the outer margin are written in the form of the Hebrew word ~hazaq~ (Be strong)., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• Initial-word panel with penwork decoration, at the beginning of Ruth., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• ~Carmina figurata~: text written in geometrical forms. The last word of text in the outer margin, ~Avraham~, is marked., Pentateuch with Targum and Rashi's commentary (ff. 1-219); Five Scrolls (~Hamesh megillot~; ff. 220-244v); ~Haftarot~ (ff. 245-288). Job with Rashi's commentary (ff. 289-307); ~Megillat Antiochus~ (ff. 309-310v)

15th century (f. 4).Meir: inscription in Hebrew: 'I am Meir', 15th century (f. 308v).Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), OldEnglish scholar and librarian: inscribed with his name: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (f. 1) (see Wright 1972).Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (f. 4).The

• Miniature of Heloise addressing her pupil, and a group of women, with a full border containing the Yorkist motto 'Dieu et mon droit', an ostrich feather with a motto 'Ic dene', a crowned Beaufort's badge of a portcullis, and a red rose of Lancaster supported by a white greyhound and a red dragon; and an illuminated initial 'T'(ous) with a fleur de lis., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

i verso) (see Warner and Gilson, 1921).?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '53'.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 84,

• Detail of a miniature of Heloise addressing her pupil, and a group of women., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

i verso) (see Warner and Gilson, 1921).?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '53'.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 84,

• Detail of the red rose of Lancaster, with a hound and dragon, in the lower margin of the folio., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

i verso) (see Warner and Gilson, 1921).?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '53'.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 84,

• Text page., Breviary, use of Sarum

laudem xpristi librum hunc recte ligavi anthonius de gauere'; and perhaps produced there for export to England: the calendar includes English saints in red: Edward (18th March, f. 2), Augustine of Canterbury (26th May, f. 3), the translation of Edward

• Detail of historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

press mark 'D VII' and title (f. 2); included in the 1389 catalogue.John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), OldEnglish scholar and Church of England clergyman, Archbishop Parker's secretary (with his annotations and supplements; see Tite, 1992, p. 117).?

• Foliate initial 'D'(omine) with a tromp l'oeil border containing birds, flowers and fruits, at the beginning of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

grounds with penwork decoration in gold throughout the text. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum The calendar and litany include English saints: the translation of Thomas of Canterbury in red (7th July, f. 7), the translation of Hugh in red

• Decorated initial 'H'(ortaris), at the beginning of the letter of Jerome to Dexter., De viris illustribus; Retractationes, a list of letters of Augustine, Epistulae ad Quodvulteum; De viris illustribus; De institutionibus divinarum litterarum; In libros veteris et novi testamenti prooemia, extracts from De ecclesiasticis officis, De ortu et orbitu patrum, De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Allegoriae

century.Westminster Abbey: inscribed, 'Eccl[es]ie b[eat]i Pet[r]i Westm[onasteriensis]', 14th-15th century (f. 138).Initials 'H. C', 16th century? (f. 138). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Marginal image of king Lucius in a baptismal font, with a caption reading 'Rex luci[us] p[ri]mu[s] in Anglia', next to a fragment referring to the origins of the christianity in England during the reign of Lucius, with a marginal note by Matthew Paris beginning 'Luciu[s] rex britannie p[ri]m[us] fuit in anglia/ baptizat[us]'., Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum

York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1044' (f. i), included in the inventory of books in the

• Miniature of Nature appearing to the author, Jean de Courcy, in a dream and showing him the lady Vaillance, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the royal arms of England on a banner held by a knight and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue, with two shields with the same arms differenced, for the king's two sons; lozenges bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', a shield with the arms of Edmund (three crowns) and a shield with the arms of Edward the Confessor (a cross bottony between five martels)., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

Maisertuell for books and record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in

• Miniature of Isabel arriving at Paris in a litter carried by two white horses, with a full border containing two banners held by lions bearing the royal arms of England, and a shield with the royal arms of England surrounded by the Garter, and surmounted by a crowned helm with a mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue, and a lion crest with fleur-de-lis, supported by two lions; and an illuminated initial 'A'( la requeste)., Chroniques

and surmounted by a crowned helm with a mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue (f. 7).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le petit Froissart' in the list of books at Richmond

• null, Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

ccc xxxii. / et fu translate en francois p[ar] iehan de vi/gnay. Lan mil ccc. xxxiii/ (f. 165v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le bon roy Alexandre' included in the list of books

• Initial 'A'(s) with full bar border and partial floral border. Arms of William le Neve in the margin., Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (f. 1) with two prose Scottish chronicles

Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1), but not included in the catalogues of 1666 or 1698.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the