• Detail of a historiated initial 'C' of the Dispute with the Doctors, at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin., Leaves and bifolia from a Book of Hours, containing text for the end of Prime (f. 1); Terce (ff. 1-2); Sext (ff. 2-3v); None (ff. 4-4v); Vespers (ff. 4v-6v); and Compline (f. 6v) in the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 4 large historiated

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D' of the Presentation in the Temple, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Leaves and bifolia from a Book of Hours, containing text for the end of Prime (f. 1); Terce (ff. 1-2); Sext (ff. 2-3v); None (ff. 4-4v); Vespers (ff. 4v-6v); and Compline (f. 6v) in the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 4 large historiated

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D' of the Adoration of the Magi, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Leaves and bifolia from a Book of Hours, containing text for the end of Prime (f. 1); Terce (ff. 1-2); Sext (ff. 2-3v); None (ff. 4-4v); Vespers (ff. 4v-6v); and Compline (f. 6v) in the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 4 large historiated

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D' of the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds, at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin., Leaves and bifolia from a Book of Hours, containing text for the end of Prime (f. 1); Terce (ff. 1-2); Sext (ff. 2-3v); None (ff. 4-4v); Vespers (ff. 4v-6v); and Compline (f. 6v) in the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 4 large historiated

• Text page from Sext in the Hours of the Virgin with the initials 'C', 'E', and initial 'O'., Leaves and bifolia from a Book of Hours, containing text for the end of Prime (f. 1); Terce (ff. 1-2); Sext (ff. 2-3v); None (ff. 4-4v); Vespers (ff. 4v-6v); and Compline (f. 6v) in the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 4 large historiated

• Historiated initial 'D' of Christ before Pilate, with extension into margins of acanthus-like foliage inhabited by drolleries and bezants with single hair-line embellishment. The loss of pigment on Pilate's face is probably the result of censorship. The text has been erased., Leaf of a Book of Hours, containing the text for the end of Matins and Prime in the Long Hours of the Cross [erased]

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 1 historiated initial

• Flourished initials, at the beginning of Isaac Israelita's Liber de urinis., Liber de urinis

of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.Inscribed 'H' (f. 1) as in many other Arundel manuscripts.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Historiated initial 'B' of God in Majesty above four saints, including two Franciscans, measuring 90 x 95 mm (upper centre)., Cuttings from liturgical manuscripts

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;

• Scribal colophon: Ff. R. Hethfeld'., Liber de planctu naturae

115);Karolellus: Metrical version of Turpin's Chronicle (ff. 136-149v);Genealogical table (ff. 150-156v);Itinerary for a journey from London to Avignon and back (f. 157)Chess treatise (ff. 161-173). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. First letters of sentences highlighted in yellow. Ink drawing

• Bar border with hybrid creatures., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• Detail of a bear writing, in the bar border., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• Historiated initial 'U'(rbis Rome), of a building probably representing Rome, and a three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium. Heraldic arms in the lower border., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'N'(unc), at the beginning of book 8 of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Illuminated initial 'E'(s) and woman holding heraldic arms in the lower margin, with the date '1517'., Translations into German of classical and other texts, dedicated to Johann von Schwarzenberg

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Initials with pen-flourishing, in Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis universalibus et particularibus., Medical miscellany, with glosses, the Ars medicine

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.8.08’, f. [iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with