• Initial 'P'(lerumque) with foliate decoration at the beginning of book xviii of Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Text page of Moralia in Job, book xviii., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(ancti) with decoration in feather patterns., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Ownership inscription of Kirkstead Abbey in capitals., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'D'(ionysius) with foliate decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'P'(rimus) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Large initial 'I'(udei) with decoration in angular and foliate patterns., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'H'(is) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

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), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

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), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

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), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• Historiated initial with Peter and Paul., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Inhabited initial., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Decorated initial 'H' at the beginning of the second book chronicling early bishops of all the dioceses and kingdoms of England. Starting in the first column with the red inscription, the prologue gives a framework of the different regions. London, beginning with Erkenwald (675), heads the chapters on early bishops., Gesta pontificum anglorum, imperfect

of England. Starting in the first column with the red inscription, the prologue gives a framework of the different regions. London, beginning with Erkenwald (675), heads the chapters on early bishops. Ampersands; punctus flexus punctuation.Includes Mynors and Lawrence-Mathers's 'split petal'

• 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

• 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 '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