• Miniature of Four Muses: Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Euterpe (music) and Thalia (comedy)., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Four Muses Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Four Muses: Polyhymnia (choral poetry), Erato (lyric poetry), Terpsichore (dance) and Urania (astrology)., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Four Muses Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature of Calliope, the muse of heroic or epic poetry. She stands before a vase-shaped fountain with water flowing out, and plays a horn., Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina')

under his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calliope Pacino di Buonaguida Convenevole da Prato Tuscany Italy, Central (Tuscany)

• Miniature with Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now worn by withering age, the meaning of which he was not at all able to make out. An Old Man, who was a native of the place, saw that he and his companions were uncertain about the picture. When asked by Cebes, he uncovered the meanings veiled in the figures and, taking up a pointer, he explained the whole thing in order (see Carlson 1993)., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now

• Decorated initial 'H'(eri) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the sermon of Fulgentius for the feast of Stephen, at the beginning fo the Sanctorale., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Detail of an illuminated initial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ixi)., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Illuminated intial., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Decorated initials., Breviary, or Nocturnal, Cistercian Use (see Notes)

Use (see Notes) An unidentified Cistercian house, probably in the diocese of York: the calendar includes distinctive Cistercian and northern English feasts highly graded and in red, including: 'Commemoracio episcoporum et abbatum ordinis' (11 January), Robert of Molesme (29 April),

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Scholar Iohannis de Ianua, Iohannes (Danck) de Saxonia and others France, Central (Paris)

• Detail of historiated initial of Christ showing his wounds, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Miniature of the Crucifixion with a couple in prayer, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Adoration of the Magi, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Slaughter of the Innocents, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Detail of historiated initial of the Flight into Egypt, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly)

red and blue or brown. Roll of Hours (begins imperfectly) Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1929, lot 741.Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of the prophet Samuel anointing David, with a hound chasing a hare in the bas-de-page., Psalter, imperfect, with calendar and hymns, Breviary (Augustinian use)

the litany (f. 159).The decoration was begun, but not completed by, the De Bois Master, one of the most prolific English illuminators of the third and fourth decades of the 14th century (according to Smith, pp. 28-29).ff. 68, 84, and

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C' (antate) of two monks singing at a lecturn, with one conducting., Psalter, imperfect, with calendar and hymns, Breviary (Augustinian use)

the litany (f. 159).The decoration was begun, but not completed by, the De Bois Master, one of the most prolific English illuminators of the third and fourth decades of the 14th century (according to Smith, pp. 28-29).ff. 68, 84, and

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with the annointing of David and David and Goliath., Psalter (the 'Suneson Psalter'), for Danish use, with calendar, prayers and litany

Sueorum', Ingerdis, Queen of Sweden, and Queen Rikiza of Sweden: see Franks 1881 p. 247.The calendar and litany have many English saints, e.g., Oswald, Cuthbert, Dunstan, Botulf, Wilfrid, Ethedreda, Sexburga, and Withburga, as well as Cnut and Olav.Inscription 'An 1613

• Full bar border with a historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David harping and a hound and a stag in the bas-de-page., Psalter, imperfect, with calendar and hymns, Breviary (Augustinian use)

the litany (f. 159).The decoration was begun, but not completed by, the De Bois Master, one of the most prolific English illuminators of the third and fourth decades of the 14th century (according to Smith, pp. 28-29).ff. 68, 84, and