• Historiated initial ‘D’ of the Visitation with extension into margins of acanthus-like foliage inhabited by a human face, strapwork panels and large gold balls., Bifolium from a Book of Hours, containing the text for the end of Matins and beginning of Lauds from the Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome.

& M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a private collection, Japan); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection, Switzerland). 1 historiated initial

• The arms of Thomas Wall, Windsor herald, in the right margin, the signature of Jo Starkey, in the upper margin, that of Sir Robert Cotton ('Robert Cotton Bruceaus') with the date 1610 in the lower margin., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Heraldry and signatures Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

/ ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Marginal image of a standing woman with plaits behind a kneeling woman, identified as married by her veil and chin-cloth, looking at a man in fashionable dress with 'tippets' or tails hanging from the sleeves of his super-tunic., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of Mary and Joseph at the house of Jordan. The caption reads, 'Ei vient Marie & Iospeh ala mesum Iordan'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Large historiated initial of the Nativity. Bas-de-page scene of the decapitation of Anastasia(?) by Jordan. The caption reads, 'Ei Iurdan decole anestace'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• The angel appears to the shepherds. A scroll emerges from one of the shepherds' moouth, with the inscription, 'gloris i[n] excelsis deo'. The caption beneath reads, 'Ey vient laungel ales pastours'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of the shepherds before the Christ child. The caption reads, 'Ei vient les pastours en bethleema p[ar]sepede n[os]tre dame'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page-scene of one of the three Magi on horseback. The caption reads 'ei vient un des iii roys p[ar] le signe del esteyle'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene showing two Magi travelling on horseback. The busts of two men are depicted in the bar border. The caption reads, 'Ei en cuntrerent ensemble li ii roys p[ar] vertu del esteile'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of the three Magi joining together. The caption reads, 'Ei en cuntreren en se[m]ble li iii roys par vertue del estele'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scenes of shepherds directing the Magi to Bethlehem. The caption reads, 'Ey les pastorels enseignent les roys le chemyn vers bethlehem'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of the mago arriving at the castle of Herod. The caption reads, 'Ey vient les iii roys au chastel de rodes p[ar] sun comaundement'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of the Three Magi before Herod. The caption reads, 'Ey vienent les iii roys de vaunt herodes'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of Herid with a letter and a ,essenger kneeling before. The caption reads, 'Ey comau[n]da herodes p[ar] ses lettres de fere venyr le mestres de la ley'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi, and a bas-de-page scene of an angel warning the sleeping Magi of Herod's intentions., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of an angel warning Mary and Joseph of Herod's intentions., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene depicting Mary, Joseph and the Christ child escaping to Egypt. The caption reads, 'Ey sen voimt vers egypt'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of a man sowing seed, and idols falling from their pedestals, at the beginning of Psalm 20., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a

• Bas-de-page scene of Herod asking a harvester for news. The caption beneath reads, 'Ey erodes demande au messeaur novels de iii roys a il oit quil su[n]t en lur tes'., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, ~gules~ a