• Miniature of four scenes (1) of Miriam, (2) God speaking to Moses, (3) Moses giving his rod to Joshua, and (4) of the burial of Moses., Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')

four scenes (1) of Miriam, (2) God speaking to Moses, (3) Moses giving his rod to Joshua, and (4) of the burial of Moses. Includes 150 Psalms (ff. 85-280) with a calendar of Sarum use (ff. 71v-83), canticles (ff. 280v-302)

• Detail of a miniature of four scenes (1) of Miriam, (2) God speaking to Moses, (3) Moses giving his rod to Joshua, and (4) of the burial of Moses., Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')

miniature of four scenes (1) of Miriam, (2) God speaking to Moses, (3) Moses giving his rod to Joshua, and (4) of the burial of Moses. Includes 150 Psalms (ff. 85-280) with a calendar of Sarum use (ff. 71v-83), canticles

• Puzzle initial 'D'(ixerat) at the beginning of book 5 of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae., De Consolatione Philosophiae (index Consolation of Philosophy)

extensions forming a partial border at the beginning of each book (f. 1, 6, 13, 23v, 32v). Simple initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. 1 marginal drawing of a face (f. 37). De Consolatione Philosophiae (index

• Miniature of Boniface VIII delivering the Liber Sextus, at the beginning of Liber Sextus Decretalium., Liber Sextus Decretalium and Extravagantes with Apparatus ad Sextum

Includes three separately written parts:1. Iohannes Andreae (b. c. 1270-1275, d. 1348), Apparatus ad Sextum (ff. 1 - 113v);2. Liber Sextus Decretalium (ff. 115-204v), a canonical collection compiled under order of Boniface VIII by Guillaume de Mandagot, bishop of Embrun,

• Diagrams of the eclipses of the moon, from Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium., Kalendarium

Diagrams of the eclipses of the moon, from Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium. Large initials in red, blue, or brown. Numerous tables and charts. Kalendarium Unilluminated between 1474 and 1599 additions of astrological directions for each month (ff. 34v-36v).Inscribed '111'

• Historiated initial 'C'(antate) of monks singing, with a three-sided border including a hound, bird, lion, and grotesque hybrid, at the beginning of Psalm 97., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the fool, with a full border including a unicorn, birds, and a grotesque., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David drowning in water with God above., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, with a partial border including a grotesque., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the fool, with a section of the full border including a unicorn and a grotesque., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Detail of an historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David drowning in water with God above., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, with a partial border including a grotesque., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the fool, with a section of the full border including a unicorn., Psalter

manuscript’s history, its first folio (and perhaps more) went missing. This folio would have contained the opening words of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus Vir’, and would doubtless have contained a historiated initial. In order to provide the manuscript with a colourful

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(enricus) enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn against a background of the royal colours., Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke

Henry VIII, after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became queen in March 1533: her heraldic device of an imperial falcon (f. 1); see Carley 2000 and 2004).The Old Royal Library: 1542 Westminster

• Puzzle initial ''R'(everendo) and smaller decorated initials, at the beginning of Guillelmus Duranti's Repertorium juris canonici. ., Legal miscellany, including Summa decreti, Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales, Repertorium juris canonici

apud Linc., 1318 (ff. 300-304). 10 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1, 1v, 39v, 189, 224, 236, 248v, 261, 273, 275v). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, and initials in red

• Text page, with small decorated initials and the pecia mark 'xvii p' in the right margin., Legal miscellany, including Summa decreti, Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales, Repertorium juris canonici

apud Linc., 1318 (ff. 300-304). 10 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1, 1v, 39v, 189, 224, 236, 248v, 261, 273, 275v). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, and initials in red

• Ink drawing of head of a knight in profile., Chronicle of England in French verse to 1307 (ff. 1-129)

name (f. 1).John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1050 (see ~The Lumley Library~, 1956); passed to Henry, Prince

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with interlace patterns within full-page rectangular frames of gold and

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Miniature illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

cornucopiae, dolphins, sphinxes, masks, trophies and heraldic decoration, in colours and gold, at the beginning of texts or books (ff. 1, 17, 26v-27 [miniature f. 26v, accompanying border f. 27], 37, 47v, 59, 73v, 88, 101v, 115, 131v, 148v, 164,