• Drawing of a dragon, with seven heads in its tail. In Joachim's thought, the seven heads correspond to Herod, Nero, Constantinus, Mohometh, Melsemothus, Saladin, the Antichrist, with Gog, the last Antichrist., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

a genealogy of Abraham added (f. 74).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9 March 1848 (note on 4th flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Drawing of Adam and of sacrifices., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

a genealogy of Abraham added (f. 74).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9 March 1848 (note on 4th flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Drawings, including of king Saul, the priest Eli, who falls dead after being told that his two sons had been killed and the ark of God taken by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:17-18); and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem., Summary of the Liber Concordiae Novi ac Veteris Testamenti (Harmony of the Old and New Testaments), imperfect

a genealogy of Abraham added (f. 74).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9 March 1848 (note on 4th flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Decorated initial 'I'(ff), at the beginning of the prologue to the life of Anne in Osbern Bokenham's Lives of the Saints., Lives of female Saints in verse

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initial 'I'(ff), at the beginning of the prologue to the life of Anne in Osbern Bokenham's Lives of the Saints., Lives of female Saints in verse

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, a lion, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 255 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 275 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border of grotesques, flowers, trompe l'oeil gems, the arms of Clement VII, plaques inscribed in capitals 'Clemen / VII' and 'Pont / Max', roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 290 x 30 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border with scrolled ends of trompe l'oeil gems and flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 255 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border of trompe l'oeil gems, a vase and flowers, the arms of Clement VII, roundels containing the Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 290 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border in monochrome of trompe l'oeil gems and cameos, two Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 280 x 30 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A foliate border in monochrome of trompe l'oeil gems and cameos, two Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 280 x 30 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A border of trompe l'oeil flowers and birds on a black ground, two Medici devices of an eagle perched on a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper', and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 265 x 30 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• A border of trompe l'oeil flowers on a black ground and a roundel containing the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other strikes the banner but has no effect, measuring 235 x 25 mm., Cuttings from a service book of Clement VII

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading in 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May

• Coloured initial and musical notations on 4-line staves., Life of Thomas Becket (index Vie de Thomas Becket), in Anglo-Norman verse, followed by an Anglo-Norman crusade noted song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’ (ff. 14-14v); Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick (index Gui de Warewic) (ff. 15-26)

14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose version attributed to Richard Studley, 15th century (?) (ff. 74-77);A London chronicle, c. 1429-1430 (ff. 78-99);St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120);St Albans's register of burials (ff. 129r–137r);Genesis in

• Text page with added notes., Life of Thomas Becket (index Vie de Thomas Becket), in Anglo-Norman verse, followed by an Anglo-Norman crusade noted song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’ (ff. 14-14v); Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick (index Gui de Warewic) (ff. 15-26)

14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose version attributed to Richard Studley, 15th century (?) (ff. 74-77);A London chronicle, c. 1429-1430 (ff. 78-99);St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120);St Albans's register of burials (ff. 129r–137r);Genesis in

• Detail of a text page of St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120)., Chronicle, AD 1-1135 (ff. 34-61), with additions up to 1266 (ff. 61v-73)

14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose version attributed to Richard Studley, 15th century (?) (ff. 74-77);A London chronicle, c. 1429-1430 (ff. 78-99);St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120);St Albans's register of burials (ff. 129r–137r);Genesis in

• A montage (now dismembered) of a historiated border, with the text removed, of gold cartouche frames with four scenes in gold monochrome, two inscibed 'Protecta Vestae sussitatis mortuis' (centre left) and 'Johannes destruit templum Dian[a]e' (centre right), garlands of flowers and fruit, lions' heads, naturalistic birds, cherubs and angels, and four medallions inscribed (clockwise from left): 'Qui / timet / deum faci / et bona', 'qui / conti /nens est iu / stiae appre / hendit / illam', 'quasi / mater / honori / fica ta', and 'et / ?ob /?stabit / il / le' (f. 81a; 335 x 245 mm); a cartouche, with the centre removed, of two old men trampling on dragons and plaques inscribed 'Super aspidem ei pasi / lis cum ambulabis' and 'et conculcabis le / onem et draconem' (f. 81c; 45 x 160 mm); a centre for the cartouche inscribed 'Apollonius de Bonfratellis / de Capranica / Capellae et Sacrestiae Apostolicae Miniator / Fecit Anno Domini MDLXIV / Sedente Pio IV Pontif Opt. Max. / de Medicis Mediolanense', with off-setting of rubric and text from the verso of the cartouche (f. 81d; 45 x 170 mm); 1 section of architectural border (f. 81b; 10 x 245 mm); and two strips of scrolls (ff. 81e and f; 50 x 100 mm each). A montage of a miniature of the Adoration of the Shepherds (f. 82a; 85 x 70 mm) and four sections of painted gold frame (ff. 82c-d, 100 x 10mm; ff. 82b and e, 10 x 90 mm). On the reverse of f. 82a are five lines of partial text from the Kyrie Eleison: 'e eleison / e eleison / ste eleison / ste eleison / ste eleison'., Cuttings from service books of Pius IV

all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Musical notation (f. 90a verso).Other cuttings from service books of Pius IV include London, Sotheby's 26 Jan 1959, lot 47; part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S. Wieck, 'Papal

• A montage (now dismembered) of four sections of historiated border of cartouches, scrolls, trompe l’oeil pearls, cherubs, arabesques, and figures in monochrome of John, the Resurrection, Mark and two medallions inscribed 'De / dit / illi no / men' and 'Quod / est su / per omne / nome[n]' (f. 83a; 35 x 240 mm); of Augustine, Gregory, a scene with many figures and two plaques inscribed 'MDLXIIII' and 'Iulio' (f. 83e; 270 x 35 mm); of Matthew, the Ascension, Luke and two medallions inscribed 'Ut / in nomi / ne / Iesu' and 'Om / ne genus flecta / tur' (f. 83h; 35 x 240 mm); of Jerome, Ambrose, and a scene with many figures and two plaques inscribed 'Anno V' and 'Mense' (f. 83d; 270 x 35); four plaques inscribed 'Apollonius / de / Bonfratellis / de / Capranica' (f. 83b; 35 x 35 mm), 'Capellae / et / Sacrestiae / Apostolicae / Minaiator / Fecit' (f. 83c; 35 x 35 mm), 'Anno / Domini / MDLXIV / Mense Iulio' (f. 83f; 35 x 35 mm), and 'Sedente / Pio Iv / Pont. Opt. Max. / De Medicis / Mediolanense / Anno V' (f. 83g; 35 x 35 mm); and two strips of gold parchment (ff. 83i and j; 50 x 80 mm each)., Cuttings from service books of Pius IV

all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Musical notation (f. 90a verso).Other cuttings from service books of Pius IV include London, Sotheby's 26 Jan 1959, lot 47; part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S. Wieck, 'Papal

• Two montages (now dismembered) of a section of historiated border of a full-length figure of the apostle Philip with a Tau cross in gold monochrome and cartouches inscribed in capitals 'Videte manus / meas et pedes / meos / quia / ego ipse / sum' and 'Adhuc autem il / lis non creden / tibus et miran / tibus pre gaudio / dixit' (f. 84b; 270 x 40 mm), and two panels inscribed 'Capellae / et / Sacrestiae / Apostolicae / Miniator / Fecit' (f. 84a; 45 x 40 mm) and 'Sedente Pio IV / Pont. Opt. Max. / de Medicis / Mediolanense' (f. 84c; 40 x 40 mm); and of a section of historiated border of a full-length figure of the apostle James The Great with a walking stick in gold monochrome and cartouches inscribed in capitals 'Quid turbati es / stis et cogita / tiones ascen / dunt in corda vestra ' and 'Palpate et vid / ete quia spiritus / carnem et ossa / non habet: sicut / me videtis habere' (f. 85b; 270 x 40 mm), and two panels inscribed 'Apollonius / de Bonfratellis / de Capranica' (f. 85a; 45 x 40 mm) and 'Anno Domini / MDLXI' (f. 85c; 40 x 40 mm)., Cuttings from service books of Pius IV

all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Musical notation (f. 90a verso).Other cuttings from service books of Pius IV include London, Sotheby's 26 Jan 1959, lot 47; part of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 54.662 (see Roger S. Wieck, 'Papal