• Puzzle initial 'I' (n primordio) with pen-flourishing (including 'J-border') at the beginning of the text. Ownership inscription cut out in the lower margin (possibly of Lord William Howard)., Historical chronicle (until 1258)

be correpond to the size of his signature (f. 7), note possibly in his hand (f. 88v) (see Wright 1972). John Warburton (b. 1682, d. 1759), of Bury, county Lancashire, antiquary and herald, Somerset Herald in 1720: sold to Edward

• Initial 'H' with interlaced and foliate decoration., Commentarium in Epistolas Paulini, imperfect

sketches (ff. 28, 95, 130, lower margins). Spaces left blank for initials (ff. 17, 17v). Commentarium in Epistolas Paulini, imperfect John Chamberlayne (b. 1668/9, d. 1723), translator and literary editor, and son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): bought

• White vine initial 'M'(agno) containing a putto with partial white vine border including birds and winged putti holding a wreath enclosing a blank space originally designed to receive a heraldic motif, at the beginning of Lactantius' Divinae institutiones., Divinae institutiones (ff. 1-162v), De ira Dei (ff. 163-179), De opificio Dei (ff. 179v-194), Epitome divinarum institutionum (ff. 194v-202v)

White vine initial 'M'(agno) containing a putto with partial white vine border including birds and winged putti holding a wreath enclosing a blank space originally designed to receive a heraldic motif, at the beginning of Lactantius' Divinae institutiones. Some

• Decorated initial 'V'(erus) with foliate decoration including acanthus extending into the margins in Aristotle's Physica., Various works including Physica (ff. 3-55v), De somno et vigilia (ff. 56-64v), De vita et morte (ff. 64v-68), imperfect

Decorated initial 'V'(erus) with foliate decoration including acanthus extending into the margins in Aristotle's Physica. Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.For a detailed list of contents, see ~Catalogue~ 1808.This manuscript is partially a palimpsest probably of a 14th-century unfinished choirbook,

• Headpiece with foliate decoration, surmonted by a Greek cross, and decorated initial., Patristic miscellany

established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated headpiece and initial St John Chrysostom (index Johannes Chrysostomos), Theodore of Stoudios, Ephraem the Syrian, Anastasius of Sinai, and others Eastern Mediterranean

• 'Champ' initial 'A'(aron) at the beginning of the alphabetical subject index to Petrus Comestor's Sermones., Tables of contents and indexes added to Petrus Comestor's (index Peter Comestor) Sermones

red ink. Tables of contents and indexes added to Petrus Comestor's (index Peter Comestor) Sermones The Augustinian abbey of St. John the Evangelist in Haughmond, Shropshire, 13th-14th century century: inscribed with ownership inscription 'Liber iste est monasterij s[an]c[t]I Joh[ann]is evangeliste

• Historiated miniature of the Apparition of Michael, with the saint and two other archangels plunging their lances into the devil's throat watched by Christ and the company of heaven. Historiated full-page border in colours and gold, of foliage, (lower left) the Miracle of Mount Gargano, and two lay figures, one of which is in a roundel. Beneath the miniature is a single four-line red stave, musical notation and a single line of text in gold capitals 'Exultando in Gesu'., Leaf of a Hymnal (index laudario), containing part of the hymn to Michael.

by him at Ottley's sale for £2 1s according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. John Malcolm of Poltalloch (b. 1805, d. 1893), art collector and landowner: acquired between the first publication of the catalogue

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, wife of Lord Guilford Dudley, proclaimed queen in 1553: given by her to Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant of the Tower, moments before her execution on 12 February 1554. Marginal notes in her hand