• null, Gospel Lectionary for the liturgical year starting from the lesson for Easter Sunday

Marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish (ff. 1, 49, 149). Headpiece with vine scroll decoration in colours on a gold ground, partially mutilated, with title and initial in gold (f. 1). Subsequent headpieces decorated in red ink. Large and small red

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulier) and a partial border with many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, at the beginning of chapter 1 of Bernardus de Gordonio's De conservatione vitae humanae., De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

chapter 1 of Bernardus de Gordonio's De conservatione vitae humanae. 4 large decorated initials, developing partial borders, the second with many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v,

• Miniature of Boniface VIII delivering the Liber Sextus, at the beginning of Liber Sextus Decretalium., Liber Sextus Decretalium and Extravagantes with Apparatus ad Sextum

Includes three separately written parts:1. Iohannes Andreae (b. c. 1270-1275, d. 1348), Apparatus ad Sextum (ff. 1 - 113v);2. Liber Sextus Decretalium (ff. 115-204v), a canonical collection compiled under order of Boniface VIII by Guillaume de Mandagot, bishop of Embrun,

• Illuminated headpiece decorated with a foliate pattern on a gold ground, (the right hand portion replaced with a similar pattern in red) and illuminated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John, with a marginal inscription in Ottoman Turkish., Gospel Lectionary for the liturgical year starting from the lesson for Easter Sunday

Ottoman Turkish. Marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish (ff. 1, 49, 149). Headpiece with vine scroll decoration in colours on a gold ground, partially mutilated, with title and initial in gold (f. 1). Subsequent headpieces decorated in red ink. Large and

• Decorated initials 'T'(acuinum) and partial borders, at the beginning of the Tacuinum sanitatis., De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v, 61v (x2)). 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate extensions into the margins (f.

• null, De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v, 61v (x2)). 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate extensions into the margins (f.

• null, De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v, 61v (x2)). 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate extensions into the margins (f.

• null, De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v, 61v (x2)). 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate extensions into the margins (f.

• null, De conservatione vitae humanae (ff. 1-61); Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 61v-110v)

many birds, a squirrel, a butterfly and a grotesque figure fighting a snake, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 3v, 61v (x2)). 1 large initial in gold on a red and blue ground with foliate extensions into the margins (f.

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with penwork decoration in brown and red (f. 1v). Small initials in plain red, some with brown penwork decoration. Capital letters at the beginning of a line

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus. 1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with penwork decoration in brown and red (f. 1v). Small initials in plain red, some with brown penwork decoration. Capital letters at the beginning of a line

• null, Computus manual with commentary

a contemporary hand (ff. 109v-110). 1 large decorated initial in red (f. 2). Diagrams. Computus manual with commentary Inscribed 'Will(e)m Ballon 1603' (f. 39).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane

• Calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

brown ink (f. 48). Specimens of Calligraphy Written in London by Petruccio Ubaldini; signed and dated 20 July 1550 (ff. 1, 21, 42).Edward VI (b. 1537, d.1553), king of England and Ireland, king from 1547: apparently intended for him (ff.

• Puzzle initial, Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace)

books signed by Richard III: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 1. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 20v). Large and smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing.

• Detail of a 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

Henry VIII, after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became queen in March 1533: her heraldic device of an imperial falcon (f. 1); see Carley 2000 and 2004).The Old Royal Library: 1542 Westminster

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with interlace patterns within full-page rectangular frames of gold and

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

Ireland's Distinctiones. Another leaf from the calendar of Part 1 is Sloane 1044 f. 78. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 5). 1 small initial in red with blue pen-flourishing (f.

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Miniature illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

cornucopiae, dolphins, sphinxes, masks, trophies and heraldic decoration, in colours and gold, at the beginning of texts or books (ff. 1, 17, 26v-27 [miniature f. 26v, accompanying border f. 27], 37, 47v, 59, 73v, 88, 101v, 115, 131v, 148v, 164,

• Marginal drawing of the standard used at the Battle of the Standard, with an inscription reading 'Standard'., Chronica; Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regum Angliae, and other texts

Battle of the Standard in red, green, and blue ink (f. 88), and of a red star (f. 100), and 1 drawing in black and red ink of a seal of William, king of Sicily (f. 160v). Initials in red