• Initial 'N'(aso) and inscription of Roger Twysden, at the beginning of Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

'N'(aso) and inscription of Roger Twysden, at the beginning of Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto. Large decorated initials in green, red, or both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to

• Decorated initial 'R'(edditus) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

p(r)aying yow to send me ye questions of albart. [i.e. Albertus Magnus, Quaestiones de animalibus?] By yo(ur) l[oner dai??] Thoma(s) hossom [/ hopson?]’ (f. 47v).Successive monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary, York: over an erasure, in a formal

• Decorated initial 'R'(edditus) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

p(r)aying yow to send me ye questions of albart. [i.e. Albertus Magnus, Quaestiones de animalibus?] By yo(ur) l[oner dai??] Thoma(s) hossom [/ hopson?]’ (f. 47v).Successive monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary, York: over an erasure, in a formal

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uae) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

p(r)aying yow to send me ye questions of albart. [i.e. Albertus Magnus, Quaestiones de animalibus?] By yo(ur) l[oner dai??] Thoma(s) hossom [/ hopson?]’ (f. 47v).Successive monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary, York: over an erasure, in a formal

• Coloured initials., Fragment of a Missal with antiphons and readings for Quinquagesima and Ephiphany (ther proper order is ff. 85, 1, 2, 86)

2v); notes of the birth of Helen Bromley, 25 July, 1583, and Elizabeth Bromley, 5 November 1584 (pasted on f. 87).Christopher Davye: inscribed (f. 86). Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House,

• Decorated initials with some penwork decoration at the beginning of the text., Compilation of moral and religious texts on the Trinity, the angels, the creation of the world, etc.

yellow. Compilation of moral and religious texts on the Trinity, the angels, the creation of the world, etc. Sir John Doddridge (b. 1555, d. 1628), judge, son ofRichard Doddrige, merchant of Barnstaple: given to his nephew Richard Dunaeus, inscription

• Ink drawings of an autalops (antelope) with its horns caught in a shrub, an onocentaur, a hedgehog, a fox feigning death in order to catch birds, and a unicorn resting its head in the lap of a virgin, being pursued by a man with a spear., Bestiary

1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham. Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham

• Decorated foliate initial 'C', and full foliate border, at the beginning of the Statues., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 14 Henry VI in chronological order

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl

• Decorated initials and music in a fragment of a Missal for Quinquagesima, Fragment of a Missal with antiphons and readings for Quinquagesima and Ephiphany (ther proper order is ff. 85, 1, 2, 86)

2v); notes of the birth of Helen Bromley, 25 July, 1583, and Elizabeth Bromley, 5 November 1584 (pasted on f. 87).Christopher Davye: inscribed (f. 86). Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House,

• Miniature of Saint Louis and his mother, in Le Sacre de Claude de France., Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• Miniature of Claude de France, accompanied by women of the Old Testament, and decorated initial 'T'(outes), in Le Sacre de Claude de France., Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• Miniature of the church mass for the coronation of Claude de France, and decorated initial 'P'(uis), in Le Sacre de Claude de France., Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• Initials 'B'(ritannia), 'E'(neas) and 'h'(ic) at the beginning of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia regum Britanniae'., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

earl of Chester and first earl of Lincoln (see Crick 1991, p. 53; Richard Eales, 'Ranulf (III) [Ranulf de Blundeville]', ~Oxford Dictionary of National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2716, accessed 24 Jul 2007]). Part 1 or 2 Richard

• Miniatures of bees collecting pollen from flowering plants, and below, of doves nesting in the peridens tree. A dragon waits below the peridens' branches, hoping to have an opportunity to catch one of its enemies, the dove, according to the text. On the opposite page, a snake is depicted in the upper miniature, and a dragon below., Theological miscellany, including the Summa de vitiis (see Notes for contents)

in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Bees Peraldus England

• Decorated headpiece with animals and foliate forms, and decorated foliate initial, at the beginning of the 8th book., History of the Peloponnesian war

foliate or braided decoration at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v, 133v, 157, 179v). 8 large initials in brown with penwork decoration, including of heads at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v,

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(osius) with foliate decoration and two lions., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'A'(ntipatro) with foliate decoration, a lion, and a bird, at the beginning of book 17., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Text page., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Detail of a decorated initial 'T'., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Beginning of the table of contents with decorated and coloured initials., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of