• Illuminated white vine initials 'E'(t) at the last letter of Book 13, and the beginning of Book 14 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• lluminated white vine initial 'Q'(uod) in Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Detail of illuminated initial., Epistolae ad familiares

notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.? John Shirwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham, bought in London in 1464: inscribed '‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias a^o^

• Decorated initials, in the Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, with additions by the hand of Hans Pirckheimer dated from 1381 to 1463., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.7.17’, f. [iii verso]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of decorated initials., Register of possessions and rents of the Pirckheimer family of Nuremberg, beginning in 1398

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.7.17’, f. [iii verso]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated and foliate border of medallions with Peter, Isaiah and another prophet bearing scrolls inscribed 'Egredietur virga de radice Iesse et flos de radice' (Isaiah 11:1) and 'Ecce rex tuus venit sanctu(s) et s' and the Medici devices of Leo X: a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave', and three winged putti, measuring 445 x 35 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

include Add. 21412, ff. 20-44; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and

• Penwork initial 'P' in green and red, at the beginning of the Epistles of Paul., Glossed Pauline Epistles; treatise on prayer, Donatio Constantini, excerpta from Augustine and Jerome

et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6513 or 6523.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Historiated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Illuminated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Decorated initial., Sonetti and Canzoniere (ff. 10-150), Trionfi (ff. 151-187v) (ends imperfectly), preceded by a table

possible shelfmark number?: paper-slip with the inscribed number '.IX.IV.XXXIV.' (inside upper cover).Mr B. Hertz, a dealer of Great Marlborough St, London, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his anonymous auction catalogue, Sotheby's, 7 August

• Decorated initial 'P'(ost) with foliate decoration including acanthus leaves combined with a three-sided border at the beginning of the prologue., Polychronicon to c. 1400 (imperfect)

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 Ranulf Higden (index Ranulph Higden) England, ?S. E. (London)

• Initial 'P'(ost) with white vine decoration, at the beginning of Pliny 's Epistola 2., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Illuminated white vine initial 'F'(requenter) at the beginning of Pliny's Epistolae., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought

• Decorated headpiece and initial at the beginning of Manuel Chyrsoloras's Erotemata., Erotemata

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 bookplate, f. 54**v).Purchased

• Decorated initials in Manuel Chyrsoloras's Erotemata., Erotemata

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 bookplate, f. 54**v).Purchased

• Illuminated border and Initial 'N'(octiam) with an unfinished drawing of a seated man (possibly Bede) writing at the desk holding a quill and a knife, and on the bar border, a quadruped (dragon?)., Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 1-99), De muliere forti, Epistola Cuthberti

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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Illuminated white vine initial 'C'(upis) at the beginning of Pliny's Epistola 4., Epistolae 1-7 and 9

J. G. Alexander and A. C. De la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey~ (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 n. 4).Perhaps in the anonymous sale, ‘Importation from Sicily’, 19 April, 1817, lot 53, bought