• Miniature of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin, of the Virgin Mary's entombment and the passing of her soul to Christ, surrounded by a crowd of apostles and angels, and her Assumption to heaven in a mandorla, within a mosaic-like frame., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphoner, antiphonal)

his sale 26 June 1885, lot 124.George Salting (b. 1835, d. 1909), art collector and benefactor: probably purchased from Colnaghi, London art dealers (Kanter); bequeathed by him to the British Museum.Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Peter, with the descender of the letter composed of a foliate extension of acanthus leaves (centre)., Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale)

four-line staves visible through the gold of the initial matches those of the initials at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which have been identified as belonging to two volumes of a Temporale from the lost San Michele Graduals: MS

• Large initials in red., Compilation of classical texts

library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and

• Detail of a text-page with flourished initials 'S'(alehadins) and 'I'(l)., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an initial 'P'(uis) with pen-flourishing., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of a text-page with flourished initials 'T'(andis) and 'I'(usqua)., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'R'(eines) with a mail-coated Nureddin, the Sultan of Damascus, with bare legs and an open helmet, fleeing on horseback with a foal underfoot from two knights (Godfrey Martel and Hugh de Lusignan the elder) pursuing him on war horses, trampling a dismembered torso., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(uymonz) of Saladin's mounted soldiers forcing captives and livestock from the burning city., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(ez) of Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy lying in state with a mitre, a crozier, and a chalice on his breast, and a number of ecclesiastical figures about him., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(pres) of the Emperor John enthroned, with a courtier and a messenger, who points to the lower part of the initial that extends into the margin, where John's knights are assaulting two men., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' of the Sultan of Egypt falling from his horse and breaking his neck whilst out hunting., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'M'(ot) of a group of boys with bleeding arms; they include Baldwin IV, who was found to have leprosy., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning