• Text page with 9th century and 10th century scripts., Libri evangeliorum quattuor; Aenigmata; De arte metrica (extract)

late 15th-century library catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey, no.1438, with the shelfmark D.xi Gii (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) and Barker-Benfield 2008).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intial 'P'(luribus)., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial foliate borders with decorated initials 'A' and 'S', and a bird in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Partial foliate border with a decorated intials 'I' and 'C', and a hare in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant

• Historiated initials 'D' (e) and 'P'(er), with faces., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of a rampant lion (f. 4v). Marginal

• Partial border with a decorated initial 'A'(ve) at a hymn to the Virgin Mary, and a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Topography of Ireland, the Bull 'Laudabiliter' (f. 48), and various short religious texts (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

margin. ff. 51-52 inked out text.f. 45: hymn to the Virgin with musical notation.The English text consists of 'a very ancient creed in English, with the Lord's prayer in English rhyme' (see the Harley Cat.) Added sketch in ink of

• Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises.

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the

• Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de

• Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel,

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from

• Detail of a miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• Miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises, with a full border containing the arms of Claude de Seyssel, preceding the prologue of the translator addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises, with a full

• Miniature of Henry VII sitting on a throne decorated with the royal arms of England and inscribed with the motto 'Dieu est mon droit', and receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, with an illuminated initial 'C'(ombien), and a full border including grotesque hybrids, at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Miniature of Henry VII sitting on a throne decorated with the royal arms of England and inscribed with the motto 'Dieu est mon droit', and receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, with an illuminated initial 'C'(ombien),

• Detail of a miniature of Henry VII sitting on a throne decorated with the royal arms of England and inscribed with the motto 'Dieu est mon droit', and receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Henry VII sitting on a throne decorated with the royal arms of England and inscribed with the motto 'Dieu est mon droit', and receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the

• Miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, with a full border including grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII., Anabasis

Miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, with a full border including grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII. Contains the

• Pen drawing of the author, decorated initials and title in display capitals., Erotokritos, romance in 15-syllable rhymed couplets, prededed by a table of contents (ff. 1-8)

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. The author Vitzentzos Kornaros (index Vincenzo Cornaro ?) Greece, Ionian Isles

• Tinted drawing of Rotokritos disclosing his love for Aretusa to Polidoros, and coloured initials., Erotokritos, romance in 15-syllable rhymed couplets, prededed by a table of contents (ff. 1-8)

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. Rotokritos and Polidoros Vitzentzos Kornaros (index Vincenzo Cornaro ?) Greece, Ionian Isles

• Pen drawing of Rotokritos singing of his love for Aretusa., Erotokritos, romance in 15-syllable rhymed couplets, prededed by a table of contents (ff. 1-8)

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. Rotokritos and Polidoros Vitzentzos Kornaros (index Vincenzo Cornaro ?) Greece, Ionian Isles