• Decorated initials., Doctrinale

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; its book-plate with the

• Detail of decorated initials., Doctrinale

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; its book-plate with the

• Text page., Collationes; Epistolarum Dominicalium

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

• Decorated initial., Collationes; Epistolarum Dominicalium

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

• Detail of a miniature of the Lover kneeling before the Confessor in a landscape at the beginning of book 1 of Gower's Confessio amantis; an acanthus frame surrounds the miniature and foliate feathering extends into the margins., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

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

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

• Puzzle initial 'O'(ctobonus), at the beginning of the Constitutiones., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Drawings of urine glasses., Medical miscellany, including a Zodiacal lunary (ff. 94-103); the Physiognomy section of the Secretum secretorum (ff. 84-86v); a treatise on the oil of balsam (ff. 137v-140v)

to Voigts, f. 135 has a watermark of a bull's head, dated to 1458 to London (Voigts 1990 p. 47). Large initials in brown ink, some with penwork decoration including faces, some also with red (e.g. ff. 5, 28v, 29,

• Flourished initials 'S' and 'P'., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam) at the beginning of Eberhard of Béthune's Graecismus., Graecismus with gloss

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

• Detail: decorated catchword., Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor')

42) 5 decorated catchwords (ff. 69v, 77v, 84v, 90v, 98v). Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor') Hayyim, the scribe: the word ~hayyim~ is decorated on ff. 10, 31, 37v, 67, 103v,

• Miniature of Christ and angels playing trumpets and censing the altar, illustrating Revelation 8:2-4, and a miniature of an angel playing the trumpet and a fire coming from heavens on earth, illustrating the description of the First Trumpet (Revelation 8: 7)., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Distribution of Trumpets and First Trumpet London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia

• 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?)

• Text page with a crowned head of a bird in the margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6606.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of a king ordering to kill the Witnesses, illustrating Revelation 11: 7., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Death of the Witnesses London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia

• Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city of York in the lower margins and two kings pointing the text in the outer margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6606.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a drawing of the city of Gloucester., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6606.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a miniature of John and representatives of churches., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

of 1542; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. John London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia