• Flourished initial 'P'(ort), at the beginning of the Vita et passio beati Thomae [Becket]., Quadrilogus's Vita et passio beati Thomae [Becket] (ff. 1-72); Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum (ff. 73-97v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.2’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Miniature of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, initial 'A'(ussi), and full border, at the beginning of Book 3., Débat de félicité

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.5’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Initial 'R' with the arms of Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich, in the upper margin the signature of 'William Howarde 1579', in the right margin an ink drawing of a lion rampant, and in the lower margin the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London., Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 1-99), De muliere forti, Epistola Cuthberti

an ink drawing of a lion rampant, and in the lower margin the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London. 1 full foliate bar border and large initial in colours and gold, with a quadruped (dragon) on the border

• White vine initial 'C'(inne), and full white vine border with birds, a rabbit, and two putti holding escutcheons with the heraldic arms of Pirckheimer, at the beginning of Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia's Plutarchi Vita Cesaris., Plutarchi Vita Cesaris

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.26’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Ink drawing of Virgil, crowned; Puzzle initial 'P'(rimus)., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), etc.

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

• Inhabited foliate initial 'A'(bsenti) with a seated man and a naked man, at the beginning of Joannes de Milis's Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum., Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum

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

• Decorated initial 'R'(es) at the beginning of William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum Anglorum., Gesta regum Anglorum, 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

• Detail of a miniature of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 2., Débat de félicité

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.5’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a miniature of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 3., Débat de félicité

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.5’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Lower part ot the full white vine border, two putti holding escutcheons with the heraldic arms of Pirckheimer, at the beginning of Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia's Plutarchi Vita Cesaris., Plutarchi Vita Cesaris

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.26’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Part ot the full white vine border, with birds and a rabbit, at the beginning of Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia's Plutarchi Vita Cesaris., Plutarchi Vita Cesaris

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.26’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'A'(t) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of book 3 of Valerius Maximus's Memorabilia., Facta et dicta memorabilia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.6.28’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a white vine initial 'S'(epenumero) and three-sided border, with white vine, putti, birds, butterflies, rabbits and portrait bust miniatures, at the beginning of De re rustica., De re rustica

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of the lower part of a three-sided border, with white vine, putti, birds, butterflies, rabbits and portrait bust miniatures, at the beginning of De re rustica., De re rustica

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of the title, encircled by a wreath and held by two putti., De re rustica

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of decorated initials., Super tribus libris postremis codicis Justiniani, etc., with glosses; and other works

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

• null, Harmonica

Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7949 (‘Cl. Ptolemaei Harmonicorum Libri tres, cum scholiis ineditis, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12855 , bought by Sims for 12s 6d. (At this date, the manuscript was

• Decorated initial 'P'(rincipia), and plain red initial 'P'(aulus); the upper margin with an ownership inscription of Sir John Prise., Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

pp. 1-24, reprinted in N. R. Ker, ~Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage~, ed. A. G. Watson (London and Ronceverte, 1985), pp. 471-96; the present manuscript cited with the siglum 'P. 8.'Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• Coloured initial 'P'(aulus) and other plain red and green initials., Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

pp. 1-24, reprinted in N. R. Ker, ~Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage~, ed. A. G. Watson (London and Ronceverte, 1985), pp. 471-96; the present manuscript cited with the siglum 'P. 8.'Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ec) and ivy-leaf borders incorporating a dragon, at the beginning of Bertrand de la Tour's Sermones Quadragesimales., Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his