• Diagram, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Diagram, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initial 'V'(estra) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium., De disciplina scholarium, with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.23’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a drawing of a pope and two women., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• null, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticinia (ff. 137-151)

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of puzzle initial., Bible with prologues, and Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 488-525v)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 4).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initial 'W'(e), and a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower: 'Forasmutche as you have desired so simple a woman to wrighte in so worthye a booke (good) mayster lieutenaunte therefore I shall as a frende desyre you and as a christian require you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not [on the next page] to take the worde of trewthe utterlye oute of youre mouthe...', Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

£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. Inscription by Lady Jane Grey London England, S. (London)

• Historiated border men driving sheep from a shed, for April., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of George fighting the dragon, with a full border with George passing the king's daughter, at the beginning of a prayer to George., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Historiated border with sheep shearing, for June., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Headpiece and coloured initial., Commentary on Claudius Ptolemaeus's Harmonica

~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7950 (‘Porphyrii Commentarius in Harmonica Ptolemaei, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12856, bought by Edwards for £1.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and

• Decorated initial 'D'(omino) at the beginning of a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London to Robert, bishop of Hereford., Commentary on the Song of Solomon

at the beginning of a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London to Robert, bishop of Hereford. Includes a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London (1163-1187) to Robert, bishop of Hereford, probably to be identified with Robert

• null, Glossed Digestum Novum

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of God the Father gold combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of the Temporal., Breviary, Use of Sarum (volume 1)

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. God the Father Herman Scheerre London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Table and decorated initial., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),

• Table., Miscellaneous scientific treatises

'de Liber sancti Augustini Cante' (f. 1v); see also James 1963 no. 1166.Johannes de London, monk of St Augustine's Abbey, c.1364: inscribed 'Liber Johans de London' and '1364' (f. 1v).Index added, 14th-15th centuries (f. 242).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609),