• Detail of a blacksmith at work, from the lower margin of the folio., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

(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. Blacksmith at work Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.1.2’, f. [v]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated miniature of Agnes Enthroned flanked by two musician angels, below (left) the saint's statue holding out its finger to receive an emerald ring from Paulinus, a priest of the church of Saint Agnes who wished to be allowed to marry, and (right) Agnes appearing to relatives maintaining a vigil besides her tomb. Historiated full-page border in colours and gold, of foliage and birds with three medallions in the lower margin containing two scenes of Agnes surviving being thrown into flames at the order of Aspasius and a male and female member of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese kneeling in prayer. Beneath the miniature is a single four-line red stave, musical notation and a single line of text in gold capitals 'Sancta Agnese da dio'., Leaf of a Hymnal (index laudario), containing part of the hymns to Agnes and Anthony

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

at Oxford (f. 150v).John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).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

• Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• 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.

1836), writer on art and collector: his sale, 11 May 1838, lot 186.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; purchased by him at Ottley's sale for £2 1s according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of

• Illuminated initials., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a Tree of Jesse, and historiated border with nine roundels with scenes from Genesis: Creation of the World; Creation of Adam and Eve; the Tree of Knowledge; Expulsion from the Garden;Toiling the earth; Cain and Abel; Building the Ark; the Great Flood; the Drunkenness of Noah; three busts appear in quatrefoil at the top of the border; animals, birds, laborers, and fantastic creatures inhabit the borders and margins; at the bottom border, a woman and a man in the arms of the St Omer family kneel in reverence, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit insipiens) of a seated king David with knights and a disputing fool, and historiated border with eight roundels of scenes from the lives of Moses and Samson, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of Jonah and the Whale, including a small initial 'S'(alvum), and a historiated border with eight roundels of scenes from the Old Testament, with cycles of the Battle of the Philistines and the building of Solomon's Temple, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of the anointing and crowning of David, and foliate borders painted over the 14th-century pattern, at the beginning of Psalm 26., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Last Judgement, and an historiated border with eight roundels narrating the Passion cycle from the Arrest of Christ to the Pentecost, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Book-plates of Henry Yates Thompson noting the number of the Ashburnham Appendix, and below, Yates Thompson's own., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a Tree of Jesse, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of border illuminations containing scenes from Genesis, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Illuminated initials and line fillers., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of a seated king David with knights and a disputing fool, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of a miniature of Jonah and the Whale, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Last Judgement, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, Use of Sarum (the 'St Omer Psalter')

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May s1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire