• Detail of a marginal painting of a butterfly and flowers, from the full border., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Detail of a marginal painting of a peacock among flowers, from the lower margin of the folio., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Detail of added historiated initial in the margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• In the lower margin is an added historiated initial 'D' of God in a cloud throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Detail of historiated initial 'S' with the Crucifixion., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Detail of historiated initial., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of historiated initial., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(onsecratio) of a bishop consecrating a virgin., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of marginal image of a rabbit., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of marginal image of a hybrid creature., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of historiated initials., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of marginal image of a leper., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Detail of historiated initial., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Illuminated border with foliate decoration and animal faces, and initial ''T'(he) at the beginning of Psalm 26 (27)., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Detail of illuminated initial., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Historiated initial 'T'(he) of the tetramorph, a standing figure with the four heads of the symbols of the Evangelists of a man, an ox, an eagle, and a lion, at the beginning of Matthew., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Detail of a historiated initial of the tetramorph with the heads of the symbols of the Four Evangelists, at the beginning of Matthew., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Decorated initial 'U'(nus) combined with foliated bar border., Missal for the use of Sarum

£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. Decorated initial and bar border London England, Central (London)

• Illuminated initial 'V'(enerando) with three bishops in a text for the confirmation and consecration of a bishop, and in the lower borders, two men's heads., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts

• Marginal image of a leper with sores on his face, and missing a hand and foot, holding a bell, with a scroll above which reads, in English: 'sum good my gentyll mayster for god sake'., Pontifical; Tabula

in a later phase.) Pontifical; Tabula Perhaps written for a bishop of London, such as Robert de Braybroke (d. 1404) or Roger Walden (d. 1406): the see of London mentioned (see Lowden 2003 p. 44).? The Benedictine abbey of Sts