• Coloured drawing with Tristan standing beside a ship and a man rowing towards him., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawing with Tristan fighting 'Securades'., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawing with knights fighting., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawing with knights jousting., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawing with knights jousting, including Tristan, designated by an inscribed 'Ti'., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Puzzle initial 'O'(r dit) with pen-flourishing., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawings with Tristan and 'Governar' arriving before a castle, and Tristan's ship arriving before a castle on the shores of Cornwall., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Tristan fights Brunor, while Yseut and Brunor's wife (the beautiful giantess) look on., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Coloured drawing of Tristan decapitating the beautiful giantess, Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Pen-flourished initials 'F'(rater) and 'H'(enrici)., Cartulary made for Walter Lynton (index Walter de Lynton), master of the hospital of the Virgin Mary and Lazarus, Burton Lazars, Leicestershire

its cartulary, made for Lynton in 1402 (f. 5) (see Davis no. 491; cf no. 90).The hospital of St-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London, a subordinate hospital of Burton Lazars, Leicestershire (see Wright 1972).Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), book collector: binding with

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of Psalm 1., Breviary, Use of Sarum, vol. 2, imperfect

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. King David Herman Scheerre England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London)

• Detail of a coloured drawing with knights jousting, including Tristan, designated by an inscribed 'Ti'., Roman de Tristan in prose (index Tristram) (imperfect)

two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (inside the upper cover).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 237, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. The Harley Collection, formed by

• Illuminated initials 'N'(unc) and 'I'(ncipit), with foliate extensions., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initials Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Detail of a miniature of Petrus Aureoli, Archbishop of Aix, preaching from the pulpit inscribed on the front with words 'quis ascendit in montem', with Christ enthroned on the mountain above him, at the beginning of the text., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Aureoli Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Zoomorphic initial 'IN' (primis) formed of a winged biped, at the beginning of the 'Oratio sancti Hugbaldi abbatis'., Prayer book (the 'Royal Prayer Book'), including the apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar, and Gospel readings

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer's manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Miniature of Aimeri kneeling before Charlemagne., Cycle of Aimeri de Narbonne: 'Girart de Viane' by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, 5560 lines, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 4-38v), 'Aimeri de Narbonne' and 'Narbonnais', 12850 lines (ff. 38v-120v), 'Siége de Barbastre', 8400 lines (ff. 121-175), and 'Guibert d'Andrenas' and 'Mort d'Aimeri', 6560 lines, imperfect at the end (ff. 176-217v)

lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (f. 1v; see Wright 1972).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 192, bought for Edward Harley possibly through Nathaniel Noel (see Wright and Wright

• Miniature of Petrus Aureoli, Archbishop of Aix, preaching from the pulpit inscribed on the front with words 'quis ascendit in montem', with Christ enthroned on the mountain above him, with a full border and a shield with cross, crown of thorns, and crossed lance and sponge, at the beginning of the text., Compendium litterale totius Scripture

et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8193).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Petrus Aureoli Petrus Aureoli England, S. E. England, N. and S. E. (Lincoln and London)

• Detail of a table of signs and images used in the text to mark some of the subjects treated in the text, with explanations of their meanings., Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum

explanations of their meanings. Includes 3 works of Ralph de Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler and ecclesiastic, dean of St Paul's, London (1180-1199/1200):Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, written in a different hand that the rest of the volume

• Detail of angels holding a shield with the arms of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London in the upper margin of the folio., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

the arms of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London in the upper margin of the folio. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of

• Calendar page for February with tinted drawings of a man with a shovel (the labour of the month), two fish (Pisces), saint Brigida, a fleur-de-lis (for the feast of the purification), and saints Blaise, Agatha, Valetine, Peter in cathedra [in Antiocha], and Matthew., Almanac with an astrological miscellany

of Corne so ever that it be' ( ~A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum~, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2332. 12 calendar pages, one opening for each month, with tinted drawings