• Illuminated initial 'H'(actenus) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, a hare, and a peacock., Opera

I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): his arms (f. 4).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 1).John Wright,

• Illuminated initial 'I'(n) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, a hare, and a bird., Opera

I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): his arms (f. 4).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 1).John Wright,

• Illuminated initial 'M'(ulta) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, a hare, and an insect., Opera

I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): his arms (f. 4).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 1).John Wright,

• Detail of inhabited initial 'A'., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

[part 4]: Originally part of a manuscript corpus of Augustine's works written by Eadmer, (d. c. 1130), monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d.

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'D'(ominus)., pages from a Missal

and livery badge of a padlock throughout, identified in a 17th-century hand. Glastonbury Abbey: added arms (f. 10).? The cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: found and acquired by Hollard (inscription cited below).Joseph Hollard, of the Inner Temple: inscription 'Manuscriptum

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ominus) with foliate decoration and border., pages from a Missal

and livery badge of a padlock throughout, identified in a 17th-century hand. Glastonbury Abbey: added arms (f. 10).? The cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: found and acquired by Hollard (inscription cited below).Joseph Hollard, of the Inner Temple: inscription 'Manuscriptum

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'D'., pages from a Missal

and livery badge of a padlock throughout, identified in a 17th-century hand. Glastonbury Abbey: added arms (f. 10).? The cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: found and acquired by Hollard (inscription cited below).Joseph Hollard, of the Inner Temple: inscription 'Manuscriptum

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with a portrait of Bartholomaeus de S. Concordio and an illuminated initial 'A'(bbas)., Summa Pisana with an index (ff. 222v-226v) (index Summa de casibus conscientiae, Summa Pisanella)

(but effaced) 'Iste liber est ad usum fratrum...comorantium in loco Sancti Salvatoris in monte Sancti Miniato prope Florentiam (f. [i]).The church of San Salvatore d'Ognissante, Florence, offset of an effaced 18th-century ownership inscription: 'Della libreria d'Ognissanti' (f. [i verso]).The Harley

• Volvelle for calculating Easter, other movable feasts, Sunday letters, the Golden Number and the leap year, with a figure (a woman?) in the centre., A literary and scientific miscellany, including the third version of the Latin Brut Chronicle of England (ff. 1-3v); Honorius's 'Imago mundi' (ff. 6-21); 'On the Times', a rhymed macaronic complaint lyric (ff. 21v-23v); Lydgate's 'Dietary' (ff. 24-25); Sacro Bosco's 'Tractatus de sphaera' (index De sphera)(ff. 30-49v); Langenstein's 'Expositio terminorum astronomiae' (ff. 51-58, 58-61v); Decembrius's 'Liber de Historia peregrina', Book 1, 'Cosmographia' (ff. 72-79v)

manuscript 237 in his library inventory, now Harley 7644 (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; sold in 1707 to Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Illuminated initial 'D'(eus)., Gregorian sacramentary

red. Highlights in red between ff. 63-67. Gregorian sacramentary The Benedictine abbey of St. Columba, Sens (see Orchard 2002).The cathedral church of St. Cyr, Nevers: late 10th-century and early 11th-century additions to companion volume Harley 2991 conform the sacramentary to

• Full-page drawing in brown ink of God the father and, below, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Sibilla, Brigida, and Reynhardus., Praenosticatio Latina or Prefagium

ordinis sancti Augustini (f. 147); and possibly its pressmark , 'A N' (f. 147).All parts:John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Decorated initial 'D'(omini) at Psalm 23 (24)., Psalter (fragment) with a calendar page for November/December (f. 148)

ordinis sancti Augustini (f. 147); and possibly its pressmark , 'A N' (f. 147).All parts:John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Foliate border with large roundels of putti with heraldic devices, smaller roundels with portraits of philosophers, the coat of arms of Aragon, and a portrait of Plato., Opera

I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): his arms (f. 4).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 1).John Wright,

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uum) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti and a hare., Opera

I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): his arms (f. 4).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 1).John Wright,

• Historiated initial 'A', with foliate borders., Leaf from de Chauliac's 'Surgery' (index Chirurgia magna), Book VI, in English translation (originally ff. 107-107v in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS. 12, from which it was removed by John Bagford)

[part 4]: Originally part of a manuscript corpus of Augustine's works written by Eadmer, (d. c. 1130), monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d.

• Miniature of Mary Magdalene in the wilderness, with a skull., Prayer book of Joanna of Ghistelles (Office of the Dead, Use of Messines)

Ypres, in 1516: the Benedictine calendar includes Countess Adela (8 January), founder of the Abbey, and the dedication of the church and choir (21 September), and its octave (28 Sept.); both litanies have Sidronius (relics at Messines) immediately after Stephen

• Text of prayers to Mary Magdalene, with scatter border including snails, flowers, a peacock, and butterflies., Prayer book of Joanna of Ghistelles (Office of the Dead, Use of Messines)

Ypres, in 1516: the Benedictine calendar includes Countess Adela (8 January), founder of the Abbey, and the dedication of the church and choir (21 September), and its octave (28 Sept.); both litanies have Sidronius (relics at Messines) immediately after Stephen

• Miniature of Francis receiving the stigmata, with a full foliate border with a coat of arms., Noted Breviary of Anthony of Burgundy

blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Noted Breviary of Anthony of Burgundy A Franciscan convent, Mons: the dedication of church of the Franciscans of Mons included in the calendar (12 September).Anthony (b. 1421, d. 1504), bastard of Burgundy: his

• Historiated initial 'R'(esurrexi) with the Resurrection, and border roundels with the Maries at the sepulchre, and the 'Noli me tangere'; angels supporting heraldic arms to the left of the initial, in a Missal., Missal

147. Missal The cathedral of St. Kylian, Würzburg, between 1443 and 1455: the calendar includes the dedication of the old church of Würzburg (26 July), in black, and the feasts of Kylian, its octave (8 and 15 July), and the

• null, Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and