• Decorated initials 'N'(atalis) and 'H'(esterno) with foliate forms., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

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

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12805, bought by Marsh for £3 3s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F. S.

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12805, bought by Marsh for £3 3s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F. S.

• Decorated initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio), and later, possibly seventeenth-century marginal notations., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

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 number 'XV 3.17',

• Detail of puzzle initial 'T'., Miscellany, including Convertimini (ff. 28-77v); Moralitates (ff. 78-94); Lumen anime; De regimine principum (ff. 136-222v)

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

• Detail of the decorated initial 'C' and decorated border., Miscellany, including Convertimini (ff. 28-77v); Moralitates (ff. 78-94); Lumen anime; De regimine principum (ff. 136-222v)

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

• Flourished initials, at the beginning of the Sermones et epistolae., Italian Humanist letters and speeches

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. 3).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated puzzle initial 'F'(orma), incorporating an animal's head below., De physicis, extract (imperfect)

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. 1v; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initial 'A'(udi) at the beginning of the Pseudo-Basil's Monita ad monachos., De corpore et sanguine Domini (ff. 18-28v); Monita ad monachos (Admonitio ad filium) (incomplete) (ff. 29-33v)

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.', ff. 18, 26).Purchased by the British

• Decorated initial 'H'(esterno) with foliate forms., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

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

• Decorated initial 'P'(aucorum) at the beginning of Maximus of Turin's Homily hiemales de tempore, II (attributed to Ambrose)., Various sermons, including several of Augustine's sermons for Easter, with list of contents, ff. 1v-2

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

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

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 number 'XV 3.17',

• Decorated initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio)., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

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 number 'XV 3.17',

• Full-page frame with interlace, and illuminated initial 'I(n) with bird heads, at the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v)

for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Diagram., Theological miscellany, including provebial Latin poetry, and William of Waddington's Le Manuel des Pechiez (f. 81r-v); the 'Speculum theologie'

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. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Diagram., Theological miscellany, including provebial Latin poetry, and William of Waddington's Le Manuel des Pechiez (f. 81r-v); the 'Speculum theologie'

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. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Marginal drawing, Treatise on Arthmetic

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller. Bought from Rodd by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £2 10s., along with 32 other

• Marginal drawing, Treatise on Arthmetic

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller. Bought from Rodd by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £2 10s., along with 32 other

• Historiated initial 'H'(enricus) enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn against a background of the royal colours., Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke

for £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. Imperial falcon London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Three coloured initials 'D'(um) and inscription 'Cirencestrie'., Liber testimonium veteris testamenti (parts 1 and 3); Sermo (f. 117); In canticum canticorum (9 excerpts)(f. 117v)

end of each quire.An inscription, now lost, of the 2nd half of the twelfth century (similar to the one in London, British Library Royal 3 A. xii, f. 1) stated that the manuscript was written by Walter, canon and deacon