• Coloured initials with pen-flourished decoration., Leaf from a Lectionary

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Detail of decorated initials, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Detail of initial 'M'(arcus) with interlace and bird's head decoration, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• Detail of initial with bird's head decoration, a copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V., Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V

68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, ~Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum~, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate,

• null, Visions of Philibert the Hermit

manuscript in 1564 from Salomes (f. 79v).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 13th January 1849, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761,

• null, Visions of Philibert the Hermit

manuscript in 1564 from Salomes (f. 79v).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 13th January 1849, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761,

• null, Visions of Philibert the Hermit

manuscript in 1564 from Salomes (f. 79v).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 13th January 1849, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761,

• null, Visions of Philibert the Hermit

manuscript in 1564 from Salomes (f. 79v).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 13th January 1849, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761,

• null, Visions of Philibert the Hermit

manuscript in 1564 from Salomes (f. 79v).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 13th January 1849, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761,

• Miniature of a man warming himself by a fire, in a calendar page for December., Breviary, Use of Vallombrosa

Book of Hours of Yolande of Flanders: A Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson~ (London: Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1905), p. 4). Much of the original work, notably the miniatures in the calendar

• Historiated initial of a man praying, at the beginning of Psalm 101., Breviary, Use of Vallombrosa

Book of Hours of Yolande of Flanders: A Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson~ (London: Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1905), p. 4). Much of the original work, notably the miniatures in the calendar

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 11-90), preceded by a chapter list (ff. 4-10v)

G. Watson, ~Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library~, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166; cf. Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 618, signed by Marerio in 1440).Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d.

• Text page., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Geometric table., Libri duo geometriae (ff. 57-68) and various works on mathematics (ff. 68-73v).

Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Fragment of a text page., 'Ab urbe condita', the first decade only

lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (front pastedown; see Wright 1972).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 176, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel (see Wright and Wright 1966;

• Miniature, symbolising pride, of a man in bed holding a crown, surrounded by demons who also clutch crowns., Devotional Manual

(ff. 103v, 212v).Anthoine Lacombe, 17th century: ownership inscription (ff. 127v-128).Various other inscriptions (ff. 211-212).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 12, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Pasted-in piece of woodcut from a printed book of hours, of the month of November., Woodcuts

Julij 1720’ (2nd flyleaf at the beginning). This manuscript was bought on that date, probably from Christopher Bateman (fl. 1698-1730), London bookseller and auctioneer (Wright 1972, p. 66). Edward Harley bequeathed his library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles

• Historiated initial 'A'(pres) with the king of France, Charles IV the Fair (Charles le Bel) who came to the throne on the death of his brother, Philip V the Tall (Philippe le Long)., Historical chronicle of France from 1322 to 1461 (Volume II)

in Harley 4455, ff. 185-238).The Loménie de Brienne family: sold by the son of Louis Henri de Loménie through the London bookseller James Woodman on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley, his sale, lot 73 (see Wright 1972). The Harley

• Decorated initial 'S'(egondo) at the beginning of the text., History of Venice to 1439

Brienne family (index Lomenie de Brienne): sold by the son of Louis-Henri de Loménie (b. 1635, d. 1698) through the London bookseller James Woodman on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley (see Wright 1972). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert

• Detail of a miniature of the French army disembarking in Africa, led by the duke of Bourbon holding a shield bearing the royal arms of France, with a partial border., Chroniques

Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. French army disembarks in Africa Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.