• Decorated initial 'G'(od), in the Book of Hours., Hours and Psalter (ends incompletely), Use of Sarum

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'C'(onverte), in the Book of Hours., Hours and Psalter (ends incompletely), Use of Sarum

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Foliate initial 'B'(eatus) with a full foliate border and the arms of Isabel, sister of Richard, duke of York, aunt of Edward IV impaled by those of her husband, Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of Essex, with two eagles as supporters, and with her badge, a fatterlock, combined with the badge of her husband, a knot., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

tue', and for deceased parents, 15th century (ff. 133v-134).A fifteenth century reader numbered the Psalms in the margins.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Foliate initial London England, S. (London?)

• Calendar page for December with added obits of Richard, duke of York, and Edward Bourchier, both killed at the battle of Wakefield (30th December 1460), 'Obitus Rica[rdi] Ducis Ebor[is] / Anno D[omi]ni Mill[es]imo cccc mo / Sexagesimo / Edwardus Bourgchier / filius d[omi]ne Isabelle comi/tisse Essex[ensis] et Sororis / eiusdem duciis, obiit eisdem / die et anno suprascript[is]'., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

famule tue', and for deceased parents, 15th century (ff. 133v-134).A fifteenth century reader numbered the Psalms in the margins.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. December London England, S. (London?)

• Decorated initial 'W'(hen)., Testament and The reignes of the kyngis of England, A Treatise between Information and Truth; On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland; Le assemble de dyeus; Descent of the Lords Percy

the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial John Lydgate, William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris London England, S. E. (London?)

• Added page of a large historiated and illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a tree of Jesse, roundels or half-roundels of the six days of Creation, mounted animals jousting, and David with a slingshot and Goliath, with heraldic arms in the left margin, inserted before the beginning of the New Testament., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

~Transactions of the Bibliographical Society~, 9 (1906-1908), pp. 127-210, and Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969); and with an autobiographical note beginning 'Henricus Saville filius Henrici Saville de Blatheroide et franciscae uxor

• Detail of a miniature of Richard II being delivered to the citizens of London., La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) (index Histoire rimée de Richard II, The Capture and Death of king Richard, Account of the Fall of Richard II, The Chronicle of Jean Creton)

II being delivered to the citizens of London. Illustrated by the Virgil Master (fl. in Paris, c. 1309-1420).Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian and poet. This work was commissioned between November 1401 and March 1402 by Philip the Bold, duke of

• Miniature of Richard II being delivered to the citizens of London., La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) (index Histoire rimée de Richard II, The Capture and Death of king Richard, Account of the Fall of Richard II, The Chronicle of Jean Creton)

delivered to the citizens of London. Illustrated by the Virgil Master (fl. in Paris, c. 1309-1420).Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian and poet. This work was commissioned between November 1401 and March 1402 by Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy. On

• Miniature of Richard II being delivered to the citizens of London., La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) (index Histoire rimée de Richard II, The Capture and Death of king Richard, Account of the Fall of Richard II, The Chronicle of Jean Creton)

delivered to the citizens of London. Illustrated by the Virgil Master (fl. in Paris, c. 1309-1420).Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian and poet. This work was commissioned between November 1401 and March 1402 by Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy. On

• Illluminated initials in the Friar's tale., The Canterbury Tales

form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Opening Scribe of Egerton 1991 and Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MSS 67 and 198. Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340, d. 1400) London England, S. E. (probably London or East Anglia)

• Pen-flourished initial 'T'(he book), with a marginal extension, at the beginning of Matthew., New Testament, in the earlier Wycliffite version, with a table of lections according to the use of Salisbury

Royal Appendix 70, no. 62 (see Warner and Gilson, 1921, p. 15).Robert Scott (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller.Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts

• Foliate initial 'R'(uth) with partial border, at the beginning of the prologue to Filippo's Moncaglieri's Dominicale, and a 'champ' initial 'E'(runt), at the beginning of the lection for the first Sunday of Advent., Dominicale (Postilla super Evangelia dominicalia)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6546.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

• Blank page., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Blank page Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of the royal coat of arms of Henry VIII, at the beginning of Jean Mallard's dedicatory letter to Henry VIII., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal coat of arms Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Text page of Jean Mallard's dedicatory letter to Henry VIII., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Text page of Jean Mallard's dedicatory letter to Henry VIII., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of Henry VIII praying in his bedchamber, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Henry VIII as David Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Text page of Psalm 1 with decorated initials and line-fillers, and with a note in Henry VIII's hand., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uare), at the beginning of Psalm 2, with decorated initials and line-fillers, and with notes in Henry VIII's hand., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of Psalm 3, with decorated initials and line-fillers., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial Jean Mallard, with Latin marginal notes by Henry VIII Jean Mallard Jean Mallard England, S. E. England, S. E. (London)