• Detail of decorated initial., Thebais (index Thebaid), with gloss

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. 3; its book-plate, with the

• Detail of puzzle initial., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Detail of flourished initials., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Flourished initials., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Detail of flourished initials., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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., Doctrinale

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

• Detail of decorated initials., Doctrinale

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

• Text page., Collationes; Epistolarum Dominicalium

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., Collationes; Epistolarum Dominicalium

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

• Detail of a miniature of the Lover kneeling before the Confessor in a landscape at the beginning of book 1 of Gower's Confessio amantis; an acanthus frame surrounds the miniature and foliate feathering extends into the margins., Confessio amantis, with the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and a Latin prayer and two Latin Marian lyrics

verse on parchment leaves (ff. 2-4v, 366v-368) including verses attributed to John Lydgate for pageants at Queen Margaret's Entry into London in May 1445 (ff. 2-4v).f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2-4 are parchment leaves.The outer and inner bifolia

• Illuminated miniature of a physician taking the pulse of a woman patient., Medical miscellany, including a plant glossary, the Pseudo-Macer's De viribus herbarum (ff. 222-233)

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).Purchased by the British Museum

• Decorated initial., De officiis

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

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno) with pen-flourishing., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum

• Diagrams of the eclipses of the moon, from Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium., Kalendarium

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

• Puzzle initial 'O'(ctobonus), at the beginning of the Constitutiones., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Drawings of urine glasses., Medical miscellany, including a Zodiacal lunary (ff. 94-103); the Physiognomy section of the Secretum secretorum (ff. 84-86v); a treatise on the oil of balsam (ff. 137v-140v)

to Voigts, f. 135 has a watermark of a bull's head, dated to 1458 to London (Voigts 1990 p. 47). Large initials in brown ink, some with penwork decoration including faces, some also with red (e.g. ff. 5, 28v, 29,

• Flourished initials 'S' and 'P'., Decretals; Statutes; Constitutions; etc. (imperfect at the beginning)

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

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam) at the beginning of Eberhard of Béthune's Graecismus., Graecismus with gloss

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

• Detail of puzzle initial., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of puzzle initial., Glossae in historiam Maccabaeorum et in historiam Evangelicam; tract on the Apostles Creed

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. 37).Purchased by the British Museum