• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Blank folio, with effaced British Museum stamp., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Front cover of binding., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Back cover of binding., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Spine of binding., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Puzzle initial 'U'(erbum) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Hosea., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

descenders in red and blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill ofYork, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae

• Text page., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

descenders in red and blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill ofYork, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n mense) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Zechariah., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

descenders in red and blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill ofYork, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erbum) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Joel, and two puzzle initials 'S'(anctus) and 'J'(oel) at the beginning of the prologues to Joel., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

foliate decoration, at the beginning of Joel, and two puzzle initials 'S'(anctus) and 'J'(oel) at the beginning of the prologues to Joel. In a hand very close to Royal 2 E IV which is of a probable Christ Church, Canterbury

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 74v): '… as a frende desyre you and as a Christian requer [require] you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not…' (continued on f. 75v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 75v): '… howe the ende of Mathusael [Methuselah] whoe as we reade in the Scriptures was the longeste lived that was of a manne died at the laste for as the…' (continued on f. 76v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk: 'the lorde comforte youre grace and that in his worde whearen all creatures onlye are to be comforted and though…' (continued on f. 78v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 78v): '… that you have loste them but truste that we by leasinge this mortall life have wanne [won] an immortal life and I for …' (continued on f. 79v)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 78): '… it hathe pleased god to take awaye ij of youre children yet thincke not I moste humblye beseche youre grace…' (continued on f. 79)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to her father, the Duke of Suffolk (continued from f. 79): '… my parte as I have honoured youre grace in thys life will praye for you in this life …' (continued on f. 80)., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Detail of a miniature of a phoenix biting a branch., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

1753 to the nation 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. Phoenix England, S. (Salisbury?)

• Detail of a miniature of a phoenix burning, illustrating the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again from the ashes., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

1753 to the nation 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. Phoenix England, S. (Salisbury?)