• Detail of a miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• Calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

Gilson 1921).In the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 42, no, 3.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimens Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, with an illuminated initial 'A' and partial foliate border, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and his wife Margaret in 1508: inscribed

• A historiated and foliate initial 'X' of the Crucifixion., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• A historiated initial ?'I' of Christ preaching to three men., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• A historiated and foliate initial 'A' with a medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing, of a saint preaching to a kneeling crowd., Cuttings from a choir book

number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' of Arthur drawing the sword from the stone., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

and Ulrich 1886). His bookplate and number inside the front cover and in his catalogue: ~The Huth Library~, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III. PP. 954-57.Bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see ~Catalogue of the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' with image of King Arthur setting infants adrift in a boat., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

and Ulrich 1886). His bookplate and number inside the front cover and in his catalogue: ~The Huth Library~, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III. PP. 954-57.Bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see ~Catalogue of the

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

abbey of Sainte Genevieve, Paris: inscription in a 17th-century hand 'Ex libris S. Genovefae Parisiensis' (f. 1).James Woodman, bookseller of London; purchased by Harley in 1725 (see Humphrey Wanley's diary, Lansdowne 772, f. 51v).Inscription 'A (?)/S' (f. 1).The Harley Collection,

• Text page., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of a miniature of the world, with a decorated initial 'T', in Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of a hippopotamus, three mermaids, and five dragons., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of a miniature of hawks., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Frontispiece to 'Le livre des enseignments des visces et des vertus' with a miniature of a man reading to a group of students, and marginal images of birds, a knight charging, grotesques and hounds., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of a swordfish, in the Bestiary portion of Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of man teaching tonsured students, decorated initial 'Q'(uant), and three-sided border: a knight charging a snail, an archer shooting at a dragon, a woman wielding a sword, birds, and a grotesque, in Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Initial 'R'(ectorique) with pen-flourishing, in Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature of man teaching students, and decorated initial 'C'(his), in Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Lower left part of three-sided border with birds, and hybrids: Centaur shooting a bird; and Bagpiper, in Brunetto Latini's Le Livre du Trésor., Li Livres dou Tresor

Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire