• Text page., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the border, at the beginning of Judges., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Detail of a bird from the marginal decoration., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bird Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

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librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• null, Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Text page., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7979?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Petrus Comestor (index Peter Comestor, Pierre le Mangeur) London England, S. (London?)

• Initial words decorated with pen-flourishing in brown ink, at a ~Hoshanah~ (poetical prayer) for ~Hoshanah Rabbah~ (the seventh day of Sukkot; for the poem, see Davidson vol. 1, no. 1857)., Prayer book with Haggadah (ff. 71-88) and ~Pirqei Avot~ (ff. 88v-115), Ashkenazi rite

Gaster' (f. 161v); no. 582 in his collection [Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London(London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996]; purchased by the British Museum from him in 1925 together with

• Detail of puzzle initial., Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.4.4’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Puzzle initial 'L'(egitur) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Innocent IV's Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium., Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.4.4’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Miniatures of the murder of Abel and Noah's Ark., Bible with prologues, and two versions of Psalms

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.8’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Glossed text of Ezekiel 40:6-11., Ezekiel and Daniel, with the Glossa ordinaria

(f. 90v).A Dominican convent, London, founded after 1221, perhaps given by an unidentified countess: inscription on the 18th-century binding, probably copied from a note on the original binding, 'COMITISSAE / TOM VI' and 'OLIM. CONVENT./ PRAED. LONDON'; see also Royal

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 74v): '… as a frende desyre you and as a Christian requer [require] you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not…' (continued on f. 75v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 75v): '… howe the ende of Mathusael [Methuselah] whoe as we reade in the Scriptures was the longeste lived that was of a manne died at the laste for as the…' (continued on f. 76v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk: 'the lorde comforte youre grace and that in his worde whearen all creatures onlye are to be comforted and though…' (continued on f. 78v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 78v): '… that you have loste them but truste that we by leasinge this mortall life have wanne [won] an immortal life and I for …' (continued on f. 79v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 78): '… it hathe pleased god to take awaye ij of youre children yet thincke not I moste humblye beseche youre grace…' (continued on f. 79)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 79): '… my parte as I have honoured youre grace in thys life will praye for you in this life …' (continued on f. 80)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

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. Lady Jane Grey inscription London England, S. (London)

• Detail of decorated initial., St Albans register of properties

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum