• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus)., 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. Historiated initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Illuminated full bar border and initials with foliate and spray decoration extending into the margins., 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. Illuminated border and initials London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'U'(nus) of the Crucifixion of Andrew., Breviary, use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 145-150v)

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. Crucifixion of Andrew London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'T'(Ota) of the Assumption of the Virgin., 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. Historiated initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'D'(ei) of the Nativity of the Virgin., Breviary, use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 145-150v)

(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. The Nativity of the Virgin London England, S. E. (London?)

• Illuminated and coloured initials with spray and penwork decoration extending into the margin., 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. Illuminated and coloured initials London England, S. E. (London?)

• Historiated initial 'C'(Uncti) of the Virgin and All Saints., Breviary, use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 145-150v)

(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. The Virgin and All Saints London England, S. E. (London?)

• 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?)

• 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?)

• Miniature of the creation of Eve, with foliate border and foliate initials, and a diagram of the the descendants of Adam and Eveat the beginning of a genealogy from Adam and Eve to the Kings of England., Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England)

presumably his death in 1553.King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820).Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III. Creation of Eve London England, S. E. (London or Westminster)

• 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

• Puzzle initial 'U'(sque) with penwork decoration, and part of the 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

• Initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla's Sermones de tempore per annum., Sermones de tempore per annum

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.1’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Ownership inscription of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the lower margin., Sermones de tempore per annum

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.1’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• 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

• Detail of puzzle initial., Bible with prologues, and Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 488-525v)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 4).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initial 'W'(e), and a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower: 'Forasmutche as you have desired so simple a woman to wrighte in so worthye a booke (good) mayster lieutenaunte therefore I shall as a frende desyre you and as a christian require you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not [on the next page] to take the worde of trewthe utterlye oute of youre mouthe...', Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

£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. Inscription by Lady Jane Grey London England, S. (London)

• Puzzle initial 'T'(hese), at the beginning of Exodus, and pen-flourished initial 'A'(ftir), at the beginning of chapter 2 of Exodus., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job), with glosses

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no 6397.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of Theyer's library assessed by William Beveridge and William Jane in 1678, Royal Appendix,

• Historiated initial 'I' of two Creation scenes: the Creation of the Sky and of the Earth. The Creator is represented with two faces., Cutting from a Gradual

the ?figure and Prudence ? / and Pisano south gate of St Giovanni Florence'.Walter Benjamin Tiffin (b. 1795, d. 1877), London art dealer and publisher: purchased from him by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum on