• Full-page miniature of Adam and Eve with the female-headed serpent and the Tree of Knowledge. Caption: 'This is Adam and Eve naked and the Tree of Knowledge and the serpent'., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of the Tree of Life guarded by four angels. Caption in the outer margin: 'This is the Tree of Life and a flaming sword that turned every way' (cf. Gen. 3:24)., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of the Tree of Life guarded by four angels. Caption in the outer margin: 'This is the Tree of Life and a flaming sword that turned every way' (cf. Gen. 3:24)., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Ritual illustration of celebrants around a Seder table with the master of the house lifting the first cup, at the beginning of the Haggadah., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of some of the Temple implements (the Ark of the Covenant, the Table of Shewbread, and a jar) and the two kerubim. Caption: 'These are the cherubs streching out their wings above the kapporet and the golden table'., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of Samuel beheading Agag (1Sam. 15:33)., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of Moses keeping his hands lifted by the help Aaron and Hor during the war against the Amalekites (Ex. 17:12). Caption: 'This is Moses, and Aaron and Hor supporting his hands'., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page diagram in the calendar., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of the twelve rods with the flourishing rod of Aaron in the middle (Num. 17:17-25). Caption: 'These are the twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their rods'., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of Moses hitting the rock in the desert to bring forth water with two Israelites behind his back., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of Abraham lifting his knife upon Isaac and being stopped by an angel who is pointing to the substitute offering for Isaac, the ram stuck in the bush. Caption: 'This is the sacrifice of Isaac on the altar and the ram caught by its horns'., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Full-page miniature of the plan of nine spheres according to the Ptolemaic system. Outermost circle: the Hebrew names of the zodiac signs, the second circle: names of Hebrew months corresponding to the zodiac signs; innermost circle: names of seven planets., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Folio with illegible inscriptions on the upper part., Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc.

was a user-produced codex made by Benjamin for himself, see ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS. 11639)~ (London: Facsimile Editions, 2003), pp. 70-71, 124-125. Numerous inhabited initial-word panels, and inhabited and decorated panels in colours and gold

• Detail of a map of the oceans and inhabited regions,with the zones 'inhabitabilis'; 'temperata nostra', with Italy and the Caspian sea; the 'Rubrum mare' and 'Indicum mare'; and below the 'Temperata antoecorum'; and the 'inhabitabilis', illustrating the Commentary, II.9.1-7 on the ocean., Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, fragment

library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Historiated initial 'F'(uit) of Elkanah and Hannah praying before an altar, at the beginning of Kings 1 (Samuel 1)., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of a three-faced man, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated initial 'V'(ocavit) of Moses speaking to God, at the beginning of Leviticus., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Marginal drawing of Samson fighting with a lion next to Judges 14:1-5., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated initial 'P'(etrus) of Peter holding his keys and a church, at the beginning of Peter 1., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Colophon stating that the book was written by William de Hales for Thomas de la Wile, a canon of Salisbury, in 1254, and reading 'Hunc librum scripsit Will[elmu]s de Hales, / magist[r]o Thome de la Wile, quem vocavit / magist[er] Radulfus de Hehham tunc cancel/larius Sar[isburiensis] ad regim[en] scola[rum] Sar[isburiensium] quibus / d[eu]s in hoc s[e]c[u]lo et in futuro p[ro]picientur. Amen. / F[a]c[tu]s fuit libere anno M cc.l. quarto. ab i[n]/carnatione domini'., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (the 'Bible of William of Hales')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 6462 (?); Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and