• null, Canterbury Tales

Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate with heraldic arms and the motto 'virtute non verbis' (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail Herman Scheerre Geoffrey Chaucer London England, S. E. (London?)

• null, Canterbury Tales

Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate with heraldic arms and the motto 'virtute non verbis' (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail Herman Scheerre Geoffrey Chaucer London England, S. E. (London?)

• null, Canterbury Tales

Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate with heraldic arms and the motto 'virtute non verbis' (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail Herman Scheerre Geoffrey Chaucer London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of decorated headpiece., Homilies on John (index In Ioannem), imperfect

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

• Decorated headpiece and initial 'P'(anti) in John Chrysostom's commentary In Ioannem., Homilies on John (index In Ioannem), imperfect

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

• Zoomorphic initial 'D'(e) formed by a quadruped, foliage, and an animal head., Unum ex quatuor

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.7’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(n), formed by a peacock., Unum ex quatuor

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.7’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• White vine initial 'H'(unc), at the beginning of book 6., Cyropaedia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• White vine initial 'C'(yrus), at the beginning of book 3., Cyropaedia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n), developing three-sided extensions, at the beginning of Oon of foure, John Wycliffe's English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels., New Testament in the later Wycliffe version (ends imperfect), including Oon of foure (ff. 19-86)

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

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child with Benedictus Longus, the winged lion of Venice beside him, linked to the frame by use of gold; in the lower center of the frame his arms., Commissio qua constituit Benedictum Longum rectorem Caneae insulae Cretae

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis., first leaf verso; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.22’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost), at the beginning of book 21 of Vincentius Bellovacensis's Speculi historialis., Speculum historiale, 19-21 (begins and ends imperfectly)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 61).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Initial 'I'(nterrogatus) with reserved designs, at the beginning of Bernhard von Gordon's Lilium medicinae., Lilium medicinae

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.8.80’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnis), at the beginning of Hippocrates' Prognostica., Medical miscellany (ends imperfectly), including Hippocrates' Prognostica

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XII.6.20’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'A'(lexander), at the beginning of Aristoteles's Epistola Ypocratis ad Alexandrum., Epistola Ypocratis ad Alexandrum (ends imperfectly)

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

• null, Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England)

Edward VI, presumably his death in 1553.King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820).Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III. Detail London England, S. E. (London or Westminster)

• Detail of a double portrait of Roman heads., Imagines Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistrum Equitum, Tribuni-Militum consularis potestatis, ab urbe condita usque ad C. Jul. Caesarem Dictatorem. Parens Patriae (vol. 1)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.1.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Initial 'Q'(uoniam) with penwork decoration., Bible Summary in verse (ends incompletely)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 50).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Calendar page for January with coloured initials, and the signature of William Howard in the upper margin., Calendar

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

• White vine initial 'H'(unc), at the beginning of book 6., Cyropaedia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with