• Historiated initial 'N'(ostre) of Henry V, and a full foliate border, at the beginning of his Statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from Edward III to Henry VI, ending in the year 1451

and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from] Maggs / March 1924 (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. King Henry V London England, S. E. (London)

• Illuminated initial 'H'(enry) and three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of the statutes of the reign of Henry IV, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 31 Henry VI

inscribed with his name (ff. i, 281v).Francis Hargrave (b. 1740/41, d. 1821), legal writer.Purchased as part of the Hargrave collection of legal manuscripts by the British Museum, 1813. Illuminated initial 'H' and three-sided foliate border London England, S. E.? (London?)

• Obits for several days in the month of January, written in several 15th-century hands in different periods., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Lists of the dead (the 'necrology') for the month of September, with the names of bishops, clergy, noble patrons, and members of the community., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• The acts of Thomas Chyllyndene, prior of Christ Church who died in 1411, with a space for an initial., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initial with the heraldic arms of a 'gold stone' of Thomas Goldstone and partial border at the beginning of his acts, with a bishop's mitre in the margin. Goldstone was a prior of Christ Church in the early sixteenth century., Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Initial 'A' with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of John Capgrave's Life of Catherine., The Life of Catherine (ff. 1-117v), etc.

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

• White vine initial 'M'(aiores), at the beginning of the book 7., De architectura

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Added foliate headpiece and decorated initial in John Chrysostom's Commentary in Matthaeum., Homilies on Matthew (index In Matthaeum), imperfect

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 9; its bookplate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Foliate headpiece and decorated initial 'M' at the beginning of Hesiod's Theogony., Works and Days, with interlinear and marginal Triclinian scholia, and Theogony

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

• Illuminated canon tables with a foliate pattern, preceding the Gospels., Letter to Carpianus and canon tables

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

• Decorated initial 'B'(arbara), at the beginning of Martial's Epigrams., Epigrams

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Drawings of vein men, and man with notes of body parts, at the beginning of a treatise upon blood-letting in German., Medical miscellany

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.36’, f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Drawing of a Zodiac man, at the beginning of the Numerus et Ordo signorum., Medical miscellany

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.36’, f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Coloured drawing of the Tree of Jesse, at the beginning of the Psalms., Psalter

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Coloured drawing of David with a harp and Saul on horseback, at the beginning of an introductory hymn., Psalter

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 from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• null, Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England)

Edward VI, 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. Detail London England, S. E. (London or Westminster)

• Detail of a double portrait of Roman heads., Imagines Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistrum Equitum, Tribuni-Militum consularis potestatis, ab urbe condita usque ad C. Jul. Caesarem Dictatorem. Parens Patriae (vol. 1)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.1.10’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Coloured initial 'B'(ene)., Epistolae, De habitu virginum, De lapsis, and other works

Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its bookplate (f.i); its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel

• Puzzle initial 'B'(onifacius), at the beginning of Bonifatius's Liber sextus Decretalium., Quaestationes Disputatae (ends imperfectly)

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