• Detail of historiated initials., Pontifical; Tabula

. . . ' (f. 2).ff. 3-4v contain Latin text in Gothic hybrid script.Mr. Fowler, Evesham: above-cited inscription (f. 2).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: above-cited note written by James West (f. 2).Sir Joseph

• Detail of marginal image of a leper., Pontifical; Tabula

. . . ' (f. 2).ff. 3-4v contain Latin text in Gothic hybrid script.Mr. Fowler, Evesham: above-cited inscription (f. 2).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: above-cited note written by James West (f. 2).Sir Joseph

• Detail of historiated initial., Pontifical; Tabula

. . . ' (f. 2).ff. 3-4v contain Latin text in Gothic hybrid script.Mr. Fowler, Evesham: above-cited inscription (f. 2).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: above-cited note written by James West (f. 2).Sir Joseph

• Miniature of Matthew writing at an improvised desk under a ruined arch, inspired by a winged putto with a distant landscape of hills and towers in the background, within a painted gold architectural frame., Cutting from a Gospel Lectionary (index Evangelistary) of Gregory XIII, containing Matthew 5:6-7.

Talamo, ~Codices Cantorum: Miniature e Disegni nei Codici della Capella Sistina~ (Florence: Officine del Novecento, 1998), pp. 216-22 (p. 218)). John Rushout (b. 1769, d. 1859), 2nd Baron Northwick: his sale, Sotheby's, 16 November 1925, part of lot 129; purchased

• Detail of a miniature of a group of saints, including a bearded pope, two bishops, a king with a book, Peter and Benedict, at the beginning of the reading for All Saints, in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Virgin of Humility with the patron kneeling in front of her, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin for Saturday., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of God the Father, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Pentecost, at the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Spirit., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem, at the beginning of the Passion of Christ., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Crucifixion, at the beginning of the Hours of the Cross., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Annunciation to the shepherds, at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar

Quoniam'. If so, the compiler of the inventory mistook the sequence of St. John's Gospel for a prayer to St. John Baptist and the word 'quoniam' has to be taken as the opening word of the second leaf of the

• Illuminated initial 'F'(ore) with floral spray., Treatise on the Paternoster (ff. 28v-48v), and other religious texts, including A myrour to lewde men and wymmen (index Mirror of Life)

Illuminated initial 'F'(ore) with floral spray. Ruled in ink.For a detailed list of the contents, see the Harley Catalogue.ff. 1*, 2* are parchment flyleaves with various inscriptions (see Provenance) 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue

• Small miniature with two saints holding books (John the Evangelist and the Virgin?), at the beginning of the 'Obsecro te' prayer., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

two saints holding books (John the Evangelist and the Virgin?), at the beginning of the 'Obsecro te' prayer. Including the mixed Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross (imperfect; ff. 1-24v), the Hours of the Passion (imperfect; ff. 25-26v),

• Champ initials 'KL' at the beginning of the month of October in the calendar., Liturgical texts including Offices, masses, etc., with a York calendar (index Breviary)

in the early 15th century (f. 140v; inscription transcribed below). The chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle or manor, (Yorkshire) founded by Henry, Lord of Fitz Hugh in 1468: inscribed, late

• Decorated initial 'D'(omine) and full foliate bar border with knotwork at the beginning of Matins of the Passion., Liturgical texts including Offices, masses, etc., with a York calendar (index Breviary)

in the early 15th century (f. 140v; inscription transcribed below). The chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle or manor, (Yorkshire) founded by Henry, Lord of Fitz Hugh in 1468: inscribed, late

• Decorated initial 'D'(ilexi) and full foliate bar border with knotwork at the beginning of the office of the Dead. Musical notation., Liturgical texts including Offices, masses, etc., with a York calendar (index Breviary)

in the early 15th century (f. 140v; inscription transcribed below). The chantry of St Giles in the chapel of St John the Evangelist at Ravensworth castle or manor, (Yorkshire) founded by Henry, Lord of Fitz Hugh in 1468: inscribed, late

• Decorated initial 'U'(nus) combined with foliated bar border., Missal for the use of Sarum

Calendar (ff. 170-175v) including: Wulstan, Batildis, Edward, Cuthbert, Edmund, John of Berverley, Dunstan, Etheldreda, Thomas (in red; 6 July), Swithun, Kenelm, Cuthburge, Thomas of Hereford (f. 174v, 1 October), Wulfran, Wenefrede, In the litanies: Swythune, Birine (f. 214v), Dunstan, Grimbalde,

• Decorated border with foliate decoration, flowers, winged busts, 2 cameo medallions, and one with a tree and the motto 'Quid bene acta iuvant', title 'SONETTI' in a cartouche, initial in gold on a blue panel at the beginning of the text., Opera

Decorated border with foliate decoration, flowers, winged busts, 2 cameo medallions, and one with a tree and the motto 'Quid bene acta iuvant', title 'SONETTI' in a cartouche, initial in gold on a blue panel at the beginning of

• Puzzle initial 'L'(a purveiance) with pen-flourishing forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the prologue to the Livre de Sydrac., Livre de Sydrac (index Book of Sydrac; Book of Sidrac; La Fontaine de toutes sciences; Le Tresor des sciences; Le Roman du philosophe Sydrac)(ff. 1-140); Edmund's 'Mireour de seinte eglise' (index Speculum ecclesiae; Miroir de sainte eglise; Mirror of the church)(ff. 141-156); a short text in Latin attributed to Ambrose (f. 156); La vie nostre dame seinte marie' (f. 156); Robert Grosseteste's Commencement du monde (ff. 156-168)

Puzzle initial 'L'(a purveiance) with pen-flourishing forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the prologue to the Livre de Sydrac. f. 1* is a parchment fragment, probably from a 14th-century charter, written

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'D' at the beginning of a prayer attributed to Pope Gregory the Great., Extracts from the Gospels and prayers ('The Book of Nunnaminster')

Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'D' at the beginning of a prayer attributed to Pope Gregory the Great. One of a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks of the "Tiberius" group, the others being Harley 7653, and Cambridge, Cambridge University Library,