• Detail of puzzle initial., Repertorium juris civilis

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

• 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 initials, line fillers, and a partial trompe l'oeil border with a bee., Book of Hours ('Hours of Louis XII', or 'Hours of Henry VII'), imperfect

City Museum and Art Gallery, No. K 2407, Nativity, London Victoria and Albert Museum, No. E. 949-2003, Adoration of the Magi, the Musée du Louvre, No. RF 53030, Flight into Egypt, London, Private Collection, and Louis XII in Prayer, Presentation

• Decorated initials, line fillers, and partial trompe l'oeil borders with flowers and a butterfly., Book of Hours ('Hours of Louis XII', or 'Hours of Henry VII'), imperfect

City Museum and Art Gallery, No. K 2407, Nativity, London Victoria and Albert Museum, No. E. 949-2003, Adoration of the Magi, the Musée du Louvre, No. RF 53030, Flight into Egypt, London, Private Collection, and Louis XII in Prayer, Presentation

• Decorated initials, line fillers, and a partial trompe l'oeil border of flowers., Book of Hours ('Hours of Louis XII', or 'Hours of Henry VII'), imperfect

City Museum and Art Gallery, No. K 2407, Nativity, London Victoria and Albert Museum, No. E. 949-2003, Adoration of the Magi, the Musée du Louvre, No. RF 53030, Flight into Egypt, London, Private Collection, and Louis XII in Prayer, Presentation

• Decorated initials, line fillers, and a partial trompe l'oeil border, with a butterfly and a ladybug., Book of Hours ('Hours of Louis XII', or 'Hours of Henry VII'), imperfect

City Museum and Art Gallery, No. K 2407, Nativity, London Victoria and Albert Museum, No. E. 949-2003, Adoration of the Magi, the Musée du Louvre, No. RF 53030, Flight into Egypt, London, Private Collection, and Louis XII in Prayer, Presentation

• Detail of colophon., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Inscription., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of inscription., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Coloured initial., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of coloured initial., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Historiated border men driving sheep from a shed, for April., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Miniature of George fighting the dragon, with a full border with George passing the king's daughter, at the beginning of a prayer to George., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Historiated border with sheep shearing, for June., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 May 1847 (note on 1st flyleaf verso), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis

• Headpiece and coloured initial., Commentary on Claudius Ptolemaeus's Harmonica

~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7950 (‘Porphyrii Commentarius in Harmonica Ptolemaei, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12856, bought by Edwards for £1.James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and

• Colophon at the end of the text, stating that it was copied by Peter of Hungary in 1426., Lectura super tertio libro Decretalium

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. s684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum

• Detail of decorated initial., De consolatione philosophiae, imperfect

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its bookplate, inscribed in

• Initial with reserved designs,, Scala paradisi, etc.

deputatus ad usum monachorum sancti Georgij maioris de Venetijs numero 190' (f. 1).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller, 13 July 1841 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• Flourished initial 'I'(uri), in Bartolus de Saxoferrato's In primam partem digesti veteris., In primam partem digesti veteris

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.3.7’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Added list of the knights of the Order of the Garter., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Knights of the Garter London England, S. E. (probably London)