• Detail of a miniature of two angels holding the cloth of Veronica., Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion (ff. 72v-80)

texts are part of the Katherine group, also found in Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 34 and London, British Library Cotton Titus D XVIII . They are copied in the same West-Midlands dialect as these two manuscripts and Cambridge, Corpus Christi

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, with a full foliate border containing a hybrid creature in a shell, in a lower left corner, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Illuminated initial ‘O’(vid) on the text page facing the historiated initial., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Decorated initial 'D'(omino) at the beginning of a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London to Robert, bishop of Hereford., Commentary on the Song of Solomon

at the beginning of a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London to Robert, bishop of Hereford. Includes a dedicatory epistle of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London (1163-1187) to Robert, bishop of Hereford, probably to be identified with Robert

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixi) of David pointing to his mouth with a full foliate border, at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Trinity England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Trinity England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, with a full foliate border, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of David and the Fool with a full foliate border, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David and the Fool England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of David and the Fool with a full foliate border, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David and the Fool England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David in water addressing God, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David in water addressing God, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

c. 1561), warden of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of clerics singing a requiem over a coffin, at the beginning of Psalm 114., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Office of the Dead England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of clerics singing a requiem over a coffin, at the beginning of Psalm 114., Psalter with Canticles and the Office of the Dead (The 'Princess Joan Psalter')

of the Company of Stationers of London in 1558.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Office of the Dead England, S. E. England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• null, Glossed Digestum Novum

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominica) of God the Father gold combined with a full foliate bar border at the beginning of the Temporal., Breviary, Use of Sarum (volume 1)

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. God the Father Herman Scheerre London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Full page miniature of the arrival of Brutus to England, the slaying of giants and the building of a city, possibly London., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

the slaying of giants and the building of a city, possibly London. The volume is a composite miscellany of historical texts and documents of different provenance, mostly with no significant decoration; it is imperfect at the end. For a detailed

• Drawings of coats of arms of knights of the Order of the Garter at the time of Henry V, founder of the order., Armorial of members of the Order of the Garter

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. Heraldry Peter Bale (see ~Catalogue~ 1808) Peter Bale William Dethick London England, ?S. E. (?London)

• Initial 'E'(t) with pen-flourishing, and marginal drawing of a bird, in Guillelmus Ocham's Summa totius logicea., Summa totius logicae

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.23’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Unfinished miniature (underdrawing) of Guillelmus Ocham in a philosophical dispute, in Guillelmus Ocham's Summa totius logicea; in the lower margin inscription of Henricus Geyst., Summa totius logicae

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.23’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with