• Miniature of the death of Sweyn, the king of the Danes, and on the right, a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

on the right, a woman being pulled from the shrine of Edmund. John Lydgate (probably from Lidgate or Lydgate, 10 miles from Bury), a monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, translated this work on the life of king

• Miniature of the Garter King wearing a tabard with the royal arms and crown kneeling before George, who is spearing a dragon, with two Garters at the top of the page. The Garter King may be a representation of the first Garter King, William Bruges. On the facing folio is an added inscription., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Miniature of the Garter King wearing a tabard with the royal arms and crown kneeling before George, who is spearing a dragon, with two Garters at the top of the page. The Garter King may be a representation of

• Full page miniatures of Edward III and Henry, Duke of Lancaster, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniatures of Edward III and Henry, Duke of Lancaster, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors

• Full page miniatures of Sir Miles Stapleton and Sir Hugh Wrottesley, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniatures of Sir Miles Stapleton and Sir Hugh Wrottesley, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors

• Full page miniatures of Sir Sanset Dabrichecourt and Prince Edward of Woodstock, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stalls at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniatures of Sir Sanset Dabrichecourt and Prince Edward of Woodstock, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of

• Full page miniatures of Thomas, Earl of Warwick and Ralph, Lord Stafford, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniatures of Thomas, Earl of Warwick and Ralph, Lord Stafford, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of

• Full page miniature of Roger, Earl of March, and Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniature of Roger, Earl of March, and Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms

• Full page miniatures of Sir Richard FitzSimon and Sir Thomas Walle, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniatures of Sir Richard FitzSimon and Sir Thomas Walle, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors

• Full page miniature of Sir Niel Lorying and Sir James Dandele, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in their Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniature of Sir Niel Lorying and Sir James Dandele, of the Order of the Garter, each wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors

• Full page miniature of Sir Harry Eam (unfinished) and Sir Walter Paveley (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of successors in his Garter stall at St. George's Chapel, Windsor., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

Full page miniature of Sir Harry Eam (unfinished) and Sir Walter Paveley (unfinished), of the Order of the Garter, wearing a blue Garter mantle over plate armour and surcoat displaying his arms. A framed tablet displays painted arms of

• detail of a woman physician treating a female patient, Medical treatise

(1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 7).Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. detail of a woman physician treating a female patient John of Arderne England

• Marginal drawing of a plant., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plant John Arderne England

• Detail of marginal drawings., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Drawings John Arderne England

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a jester and a crossbow., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Jester John Arderne England

• Detail of a drawing in the right margin of a surgical procedure., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Surgical procedure John Arderne England

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a bird., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Bird John Arderne England

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a plant., Medical miscellany, including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v)

including Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-78v) Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plant John Arderne England

• Text page with coloured initials and a partial bar border., The Regement of Princes, with other poems

century (f. 3),Signatures including: Blount (ff. 1v, 2), and Humfrey Blount (f. 3), John Myll (ff. 2, 3), Acton (f. 2), Folyet (f. 2), Stoughton (f. 2), John Womgey (f. 2), Roland Schakyrley (f. 3), 16th century.John Lumley, 1st baron

• Initial 'C'(onditor) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of hymnal., Martyrology of Usuardus

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6478.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer's manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 255.Charles

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) with floral decoration in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue, with foliate tendrils extending from the initial into the upper and left margin., Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

or red ink. Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi Inscribed colophon: 'Explicit feliciter. Anno dominj m^o^cccc Lj die vij Septembris' (f. 84). John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold on 17 June 1721 to Edward Harley (~Diary~ 1966).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert