• Pen drawings of the personatia plant beside a man fighting a rabid dog, building to the left., Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation including a herbal, imperfect (see Notes for contents)

name (f. 1) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v).Magister Carpender, 17th century: presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1). Johannes

• Pen drawings of a man vomiting into a container with another figure standing nearby, and a plant., Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation including a herbal, imperfect (see Notes for contents)

name (f. 1) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v).Magister Carpender, 17th century: presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1). Johannes

• Pen drawings of the diptanus and solago major plants., Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation including a herbal, imperfect (see Notes for contents)

name (f. 1) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v).Magister Carpender, 17th century: presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1). Johannes

• Drawings of various plants., Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation including a herbal, imperfect (see Notes for contents)

name (f. 1) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v).Magister Carpender, 17th century: presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1). Johannes

• Pen drawing of a man fighting a serpent., Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation including a herbal, imperfect (see Notes for contents)

name (f. 1) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v).Magister Carpender, 17th century: presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1). Johannes

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Polixena, with a partial border and an illuminated initial 'A'(pres)., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Mathematical diagrams with marks linking them to the adjacent texts., Elements, in the second Latin translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, imperfect at the beginning: missing the first folio and another after f. 6.

4v).Red seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 12' (f. 1); but this shelfmark does not correspond to the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542;

• Text page., Elements, in the second Latin translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, imperfect at the beginning: missing the first folio and another after f. 6.

4v).Red seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 12' (f. 1); but this shelfmark does not correspond to the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542;

• Mathematical diagrams., Elements, in the second Latin translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, imperfect at the beginning: missing the first folio and another after f. 6.

4v).Red seal of a ship (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 12' (f. 1); but this shelfmark does not correspond to the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542;

• Initial 'D'(ormientem) at the beginning of epistle 1., Epistulae 1-123

the beginning of epistle 1. Puzzle initial with foliate decoration in red, green and yellow (ff. 1v). Initials with foliate decoration in red, green and yellow (ff. 87v, 147). Puzzle initial in red and green with penwork decoration (f. 114).

• Decorated headpiece with animals and foliate forms, and decorated foliate initial, at the beginning of the 8th book., History of the Peloponnesian war

decoration at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v, 133v, 157, 179v). 8 large initials in brown with penwork decoration, including of heads at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v, 133v, 157, 179v).

• Coloured initials and diagram., Miscellany, including charms and incantations (ff. 52v-60v)

Halliwell [-Phillipps] (b. 1820, d. 1889), antiquary and literary scholar: inscribed 'No. 60. J. O Halliwell' (f. 1) and stamped 'Bibliotheca Halliwelliana' (ff. 1, 60v); catalogued for sale, 27 June 1840, lot 29, but withdrawn, along with the other manuscripts,

• Cutting of an initial 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Daniel, with penwork decoration., Fragment of a Bible with the beginning of the book of Daniel (recto) and part of the chapter list (verso)

67-76, and 82 were printed fragments and have been removed.Musical notation (e.g., ff. 18v, 38, 40, 77r-v, 78r-v, 80r-v, 83r-v). 1 large initial in green, blue, yellow, and red, with filigree penwork decoration (f. 44). Small initials in red, yellow,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n), preceded by a rubric in display script, at the prologue to the Augustine's 'De quantitate animae'; the pigment is oxidised., De quantitate animae

2 large decorated initials in red, silver and gold, including geometric and foliate motifs (ff. 1, 2). Display script in red, green and mauve (f. 1, 2). Geometric figures and frames for captions in margins in red. De quantitate animae

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uerit[us]) in green ink., Various poems including Laurence of Durham's Hypognosticon (ff. 8-113) and the Fall of Troy (ff. 114v-115v)

Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by his librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘15 Augusti 1725’ (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ic est johannes) with acanthus motifs., Gospel of John with gloss

'H'(ic est johannes) with acanthus motifs. 2 large initials in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 4). 1 large plain initial in brown ink (f. 1). Small initials in blue or green with red penwork decoration or in red with blue

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(Saepe) in foliate forms and an animal's neck and head, at the beginning of Cicero's De inventione, and the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London in the lower margin., De inventione (index Rhetorica); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

in brown ink with yellow and red washes, 2 with zoomorphic features of a animal head, or a bird (ff. 1, 3, 4, 24, 51v, 70). Large initials in red, most with yellow and/or red penwork decoration. Highlights in red

• Ink drawings of a beaver with a man blowing a horn, a crocodile swallowing a hydrus, a crocodile with fish, and a winged hyena., Bestiary

Ink drawings of a beaver with a man blowing a horn, a crocodile swallowing a hydrus, a crocodile with fish, and a winged hyena. In James's 'First Family' with text derived from the Physiologus with additions from the Etymologies

• Detail of ink drawings of an ibex and fire stones., Bestiary

Detail of ink drawings of an ibex and fire stones. In James's 'First Family' with text derived from the Physiologus with additions from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, McCullough's subdivision 'B-Is' version, see McCullough 1962 p. 31; Payne

• Ink drawings of animals., Bestiary

Ink drawings of animals. In James's 'First Family' with text derived from the Physiologus with additions from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, McCullough's subdivision 'B-Is' version, see McCullough 1962 p. 31; Payne 1990 p. 12. 28 drawings in