• Historiated initial 'L' of a female saint, measuring 90 x 70 mm (right top), Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'D' of a female saint, measuring 110 x 90 mm (centre)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'E' of two saints, measuring 80 x 60 mm (bottom left), Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'E' of two saints, measuring 85 x 60 mm (bottom right)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of Christ blessing a saint, measuring 95 x 90 mm (bottom centre), Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Miniature of the Last Supper, measuring 115 x 75 mm (top left)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of the Virgin and Child, measuring 90 x 80 mm (top right)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'N' of an angel and a saint, measuring 95 x 75 mm., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of a saint, measuring 85 x 80 mm (right centre)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of four saints, measuring 85 x 75 mm (lower right)., Cuttings from a Dominican choir book

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Detail of a miniature of John witnessing frogs emerging from the mouths of a seven-headed dragon, a seven-headed beast and false prophets, illustrating Revelation 16:13., Apocalypse, with commentary (The 'Queen Mary Apocalypse'), with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated in French.

of 1542; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 14 or 15.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Frogs London England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia

• Detail from the lower margin of the folio of a cat playing a rebec., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Cat playing a rebec Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Closer detail from the lower margin of the folio of a cat playing a rebec., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Cat playing a rebec Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a blacksmith at work, from the lower margin of the folio., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

(a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Blacksmith at work Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature and historiated initial 'B'(onifacius) with the portrait of Boniface VIII, and full border with three shields of arms, at the beginning of the Liber sextus decretalium., Glossed Liber Sextus Decretalium

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ostquam), at the beginning of book 4 of Geoffroi de Trani's Summa super titulis Decretalium., Summa super titulis Decretalium

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 3).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Nicolai's Antidotarium, and explicit of Rhasis' opera, dated 1327., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initials 'I'(n) and 'C'(reator), at the beginning of Rhasis's Liber Almansoris., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.21’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with