• Inhabited foliate initial 'A'(bsenti) with a seated man and a naked man, at the beginning of Joannes de Milis's Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum., Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum

Anno m [cccc] quinquagesimo quarto', followed by the initials 'IK' (f. 330).Perhaps written or owned in Mainz, which had a church dedicated to St Alban: with a contemporary or near-contemporary inscription 'Presulis Albani habens ossa que Ruffini / Talis in

• Detail of a miniature of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 2., Débat de félicité

of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 2. Single leaf which doesn't belong to this manuscript taken out in 1947 and kept separately as Arundel

• Detail of a miniature of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 3., Débat de félicité

of the three estates (Church, Nobles, and Labour) in debate before Theology, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry and Music, at the beginning of Book 3. Single leaf which doesn't belong to this manuscript taken out in 1947 and kept separately as Arundel

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a monk and a queen entering a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

a monk and a queen entering a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and

• White vine initial 'G'(rammatica) and wreath enclosing the arms and helm of John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, at the beginning of Suetonius' De grammaticis et rhetoribus., De grammaticis et rhetoribus (ff. 2-14v); Dialogus de oratoribus (ff. 15-42v)

minister: his library sold on 21 November 1687, lot 108 (Wright 1972).Ambrose Bonwicke, the elder (b. 1652, d. 1722), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster, headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School from 1686 to 1691: inscribed 'Ambrosij Bonvici 1687'

• Illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) at the beginning of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus., De grammaticis et rhetoribus (ff. 2-14v); Dialogus de oratoribus (ff. 15-42v)

minister: his library sold on 21 November 1687, lot 108 (Wright 1972).Ambrose Bonwicke, the elder (b. 1652, d. 1722), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster, headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School from 1686 to 1691: inscribed 'Ambrosij Bonvici 1687'

• Miniature of the Resurrection of Lazarus., 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 the monks in a choir with fixed rotating lecterns with books, singing the office of the Dead, with a shrouded coffin in the centre., 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 the Virgin and Child with angels., 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 the Adoration of the Magi., 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 a saint standing on a lion., 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 Roch with a staff and wallet, a pilgrim's shell on his hat, showing a plague-spot on his thigh, with an angel and a dog holding a loaf., 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

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) at the beginning of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus., De grammaticis et rhetoribus (ff. 2-14v); Dialogus de oratoribus (ff. 15-42v)

minister: his library sold on 21 November 1687, lot 108 (Wright 1972).Ambrose Bonwicke, the elder (b. 1652, d. 1722), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster, headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School from 1686 to 1691: inscribed 'Ambrosij Bonvici 1687'

• 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

• Detail of a miniature of the Visitiation shown as taking place in Florence, in front of the church of San Giovannino, with the Medici Palace on the right and a view up the Via Gori in the background, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')

as taking place in Florence, in front of the church of San Giovannino, with the Medici Palace on the right and a view up the Via Gori in the background, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the

• Detail of a historiated initial with a portrait of a famous man, at the beginning of his biography., Lives

inscribed, 'card(...ale)' , half erased (f. 1v) (see de la Mare, 1984, p. 272).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 3).John Wright,

• Text page., Lives

inscribed, 'card(...ale)' , half erased (f. 1v) (see de la Mare, 1984, p. 272).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 3).John Wright,

• Decorated initial 'P'(eripoltas)., Lives

inscribed, 'card(...ale)' , half erased (f. 1v) (see de la Mare, 1984, p. 272).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 3).John Wright,

• Historiated initial 'L'(ucii), with a portrait of Lucullus, crowned with a garland, holding a book., Lives

inscribed, 'card(...ale)' , half erased (f. 1v) (see de la Mare, 1984, p. 272).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely effaced): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 3).John Wright,

• Coloured nitial 'S'(abbati) with a hybrid creature and a catchword 'precepto' with a decorated frame., Theological tracts

(f. 152). Added diagram (f. 152v) and texts (ff. 1, 4, 153-156v), 15th/16th century. John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other