• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing his harp., Breviary, use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 145-150v)

£10,000 (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. David playing the harp London England, S. E. (London?)

• Pen-flourished initial 'P'(ie recordationis affectu, fratres carissimi)., Fragments of a liturgical manuscript, including De commendatione animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation

animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation Dame Elizabeth Horwode, abbess of the convent of Franciscan nuns without Aldgate, London: late-fifteenth century colophon requesting that the book remain at the convent and that the sisters pray for her father

• Text with decorated borders., Breviary, use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 145-150v)

nation for £10,000 (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. Decorated borders London England, S. E. (London?)

• Decorated initial 'V'(erbum), at the beginning of the Tractatus super oratione dominica; in the lower margin, inscription of the Carthusians of Mainz., Dialogus rationis, and other theological tracts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.21’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Foliate initial 'C'(ogitanti) and full border, at the beginning of Cicero's De oratore., De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere oratorum (ff. 116v-118v)

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

• Foliate initial 'T'(Tite), [should be 'O'], and partial border, at the beginning of Cicero's De senectute., De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere oratorum (ff. 116v-118v)

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 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and border decoration around the two columns, at the beginning of Johannes de Hesdinio's Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job., Commentarius amplissimus in librum Job

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

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rima), at the beginning of the second volume of Ludolphus de Saxonia's Vita Christi., Vita Christi (pars II)

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.3’, f. ii).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'U'(rbis Rome), of a building probably representing Rome, and a three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium. Heraldic arms in the lower border., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

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

• Decorated initial 'N'(unc), at the beginning of book 8 of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

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

• Initial 'I'(n) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of book 2 of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'E'(t) with an old man, and a full border with heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Illuminated initial 'E'(s) and woman holding heraldic arms in the lower margin, with the date '1517'., Translations into German of classical and other texts, dedicated to Johann von Schwarzenberg

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

• Initials with pen-flourishing, in Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis universalibus et particularibus., Medical miscellany, with glosses, the Ars medicine

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.8.08’, f. [iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'A'(biciamus), at the beginning of Guilelmus de Malliaco OP's Sermones de tempore; in the lower margin ex-libris 'Liber virginis gloriose. In Ebirbach hic e(st) Ma(r)ie. Ad Usus Abbatis Ebirbacen(sis)', written by Martin Rifflinck von Boppard, abbot of the monastery of Eberbach., Sermones de tempore (ff. 1-204), table of contents (ff. 204-205v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.26’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Initials 'R'(everendo) and 'I'(n) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Heinrich von Langenstein's Epistola de conceptione beatae virginis Mariae., Epistola de conceptione beatae virginis Mariae

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 6).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initial 'D'(eduximus) with reserved designs, at the beginning of Ambrosius's De excessu fratris., De excessu fratris (ends imperfectly)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 42).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Miniature of pope Clement V, surrounded by clerical figures, and in the initial 'I'(ohannes), the canonist Johannes Andreae offering the book, at the beginning of the Papal constitutions of Clement V., Papal constitutions of Clement V and John XXII (index Constitutiones clementis pape V; Constitutiones Clementinae), with gloss by Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea), ends imperfectly

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its pencil inscription: ‘XVI.1.1’, f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initials including a human head and a half-length figure, and initials with pen-flourishing, in the Papal constitutiones of Clement V., Papal constitutions of Clement V and John XXII (index Constitutiones clementis pape V; Constitutiones Clementinae), with gloss by Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea), ends imperfectly

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its pencil inscription: ‘XVI.1.1’, f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'N'(unc), at the beginning of book 8 of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

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