• Illuminated initial 'H'(actenus) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, animals, and insects., 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'(uoniam) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, and a butterfly., 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 'R'(atio) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, animals, and insects., 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 'P'(lato) on a panel ornamented with white vine decoration, inhabited by putti, a hare, a butterfly, 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 '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.

• 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

• 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

• Calendar for July, with a border of a scene of reaping and a rural scene with a church (?), a roundel of Leo, and an upper scatter border of flowers and birds., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

scene of reaping and a rural scene with a church (?), a roundel of Leo, and an upper scatter border of flowers and birds. For another Tudor Book of Hours with royal autographs see Additional 17012, which contains the autographs

• Marginal image of king Lucius in a baptismal font, with a caption reading 'Rex luci[us] p[ri]mu[s] in Anglia', next to a fragment referring to the origins of the christianity in England during the reign of Lucius, with a marginal note by Matthew Paris beginning 'Luciu[s] rex britannie p[ri]m[us] fuit in anglia/ baptizat[us]'., Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum

Marginal image of king Lucius in a baptismal font, with a caption reading 'Rex luci[us] p[ri]mu[s] in Anglia', next to a fragment referring to the origins of the christianity in England during the reign of Lucius, with a marginal

• Foliate border with four portraits of philosophers in roundels, putti, the coat of arms of Aragon, and a large historiated initial 'D'(ivina) of Plato in his study., Opera

'Fernandi Aragonii mandato Petrus Hippolytus Lunensis...transcripsit' (f. 2v); his arms (f. 3).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded in 1524?]: late-16th century book stamp (almost entirely erased): 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (f. 2).John