• Decorated initial 'S'(epe) at the beginning of De inventione., De inventione (index Rhetorica) (ff. 3-43v); unidentified author, Topica, Book 4 (ff. 44-48v); Pseudo-Cicero,Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)(ff. 48v-84v)

at the end: 14th-16th century (ff. 1-2v, 85-86v). Added title ?15th century 'Cicero de inve[n]tione' (f. 3). Matthew de Varenne, London bookseller and auctioneer (fl. 1723/4): his sale (through Nathaniel Noel), 21 December 1723, lot 33.The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured initial 'O'(peris huius)., Antapodosis (Liber regum et principium partis Europae), with a table of contents at the beginning of each book

Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulto), with a guide letter in the margin, at the beginning of the prologue to Commentary on Lamentations addressed to Odilmannus Severus., Commentary on Lamentations

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6522;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

• Decorated initial 'A' (rma) with foliate and zoomorphic motifs., Aeneid (index Aeneis) with verse preface

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Historiated initial (dating, like the text, from the 1st half of the 11th century) and added drawing illustrating a Psalm (2nd quarter of the 12th century)., Added drawings

text is not the Gallican version of it but the Roman (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, ~The Bosworth Psalter~ (London: Bell and Sons, 1908)).Coloured drawings have been added in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (ff. 29-35). Added

• Added drawing illustrating a Psalm (2nd quarter of the 12th century), the text was written in the 1st half of the 11th century., Added drawings

text is not the Gallican version of it but the Roman (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, ~The Bosworth Psalter~ (London: Bell and Sons, 1908)).Coloured drawings have been added in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (ff. 29-35). Added

• Two-part sequence 'Amor patris et filii veri splendor', with narrow, oblong note-forms and vertical lines showing word-divisions in six pairs of four-line staves., Polyphonic sequence 'Amor Patris et Filii', apparently for Whit-Sunday, followed by a 'Benedicamus Domino' and devotion to Julian

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188), and inscription, f. 24v. William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow,

• Decorated initial 'U'(ulsis) in Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scolarium, with blue pen-flourishing, and red pen-flourishing and manicula around the gloss., De disciplina scholarium, with gloss

lower border). See ~Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry~, ed. by Peter Townend, 18th edn, 3 vols (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1972), III 70-71, under Blake of Barham Court, for an outline of the family descent. Charles

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the prologue of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate, inside upper

• Decorated initials 'C'(umque) and 'K'(imbelinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate, inside upper

• Decorated initial 'A'(stronomie) at the beginning of Herman of Carinthia Liber iudicum., Aretea, extract from De natura deorum (f. 95v); Liber iudicum (ff. 75-84), and other texts

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initial 'S'(uperiori) with a face, and a animal head in the lower margin., Historical works, including Aelred's Genealogia regum Anglorum (ff. 133-146)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its shelfmark, pencil inscription

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the prologue of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate, inside upper

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uartum), at the beginning of book 4 of Irenaeus Lugdunensis's Aduersus haereses., Adversus haereses

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initials 'C'(umque) and 'K'(imbelinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate, inside upper

• Illuminated initials 'P'(linius) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Vita Plini Secundi and letter 11., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated zoomorphic initial 'S'(equitur) made up of a hybrid creature with a bird or dragon's (?) body and a horned human head, at the beginning of book 10 of Pliny's Historia naturalis., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the

• Inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of an initial 'M'(atheus) of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, at the beginning of an 'argumentum' to Matthew., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'M', formed of two dragons., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and