• Marginal drawing of of a dog? and a human half-bust figure, in the Sermones de quadragesima., Sermones de quadragesima (imperfect)

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

• Incipit with red infill, in the Council of Gangra., Dionisio-Hadriana

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.6.9’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'N'(ulle), at the beginning of the Nova statuta., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. Illuminated initial London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(ome) of Edward III, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Edward III London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'R'(ichard) of Richard II, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Richard II London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(enry) of Henry IV, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Henry IV London England, S. E. (London)

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) of Henry VI, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Henry VI London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'N'(ostre) of Henry V, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Henry V London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of the Immaculate Conception and of Henry VII kneeling, with a trompe l'oeil border, and an illuminated large initial with the royal coat of arms., Proper of the Mass for the Immaculate Conception

Conception in London (founded in 1503): another manuscript suggesting Henry VII's connection with this confraternity is Oxford, Christ Church Ms. 179, containing a petition to the king requesting permission to establish a confraternity for French residents in London and its

• Detail of a miniature of the Immaculate Conception and of Henry VII kneeling., Proper of the Mass for the Immaculate Conception

Conception in London (founded in 1503): another manuscript suggesting Henry VII's connection with this confraternity is Oxford, Christ Church Ms. 179, containing a petition to the king requesting permission to establish a confraternity for French residents in London and its

• Text of a prayer mentioning Henry VII; ‘ut rex noster Henricus sep/timus…’., Proper of the Mass for the Immaculate Conception

Conception in London (founded in 1503): another manuscript suggesting Henry VII's connection with this confraternity is Oxford, Christ Church Ms. 179, containing a petition to the king requesting permission to establish a confraternity for French residents in London and its

• Pen-flourished initial 'I'(n dei nomine amen)., The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

Church, London. 5 large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 2, 9, 10v, 11v). Marginal notations and rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London

• Historiated initial 'C' of the Vision of Ezechiel. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...ue sub ipso /…le bant'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• Historiated initial 'C' of Helen praying before the Cross. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...cut docuit /…lo'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• Historiated initial 'O' of a funeral with a saint burying a man. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '…meoru[m] neq[ue] /…as de pecca'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

1800; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It 19; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. PL 708; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ms. 1005 n. 4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection,

• The arms of Thomas Wall, Windsor herald, in the right margin, the signature of Jo Starkey, in the upper margin, that of Sir Robert Cotton ('Robert Cotton Bruceaus') with the date 1610 in the lower margin., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Heraldry and signatures Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

/ ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Historiated initial 'A' of a deacon, probably an Olivetian, sprinkling holy water., Cutting from a choir book

artist are: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 21, 60 and 69; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 40155 and London, ex-Holford Collection, no. 30, all of which are stylistically related to Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, Corale di Monte

• Christ in Majesty or God the Father seated in a mandorla on a rainbow, carrying a gold sceptre in his right hand and an orb in his left, with 'Beati immaculati' in display text (top miniature)., Cutting from a Breviary, containing text from psalm 118

same Breviary are Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1951.548 and 1953.21 (see P. D’Ancora and E. Aeschlimann, The Art of Illumination. London, 1969, p. 230, pl. 131; and Mirella Levi D’Ancona, ~The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School~ (Florence: Leo

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(d) of David in prayer, from the beginning of a Gradual., Leaf from a Gradual

1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London. Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. David Master of Mary of Burgundy