• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• null, Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly)

a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry

• 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

• 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

• Decorated initials in a medical miscellany., Preface to Compositiones, De medicamentis liber

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. 3; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initials with penwork and pen-flourishing in Martinus Polonus Chronicon., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, to 1285

(f. 2).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. 2); its book-plate (inside upper

• Decorated initial 'A'(d), at the beginning of Johannes de Garlandia's Compendium metricum de synonimis., Compendium metricum de synonimis

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

• null, Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his

• 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

• Detail of decorated initial., Historical works, including Aelred's Genealogia regum Anglorum (ff. 133-146)

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. 2); its shelfmark, pencil inscription

• Detail of decorated initial., Sermons and excerpts

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 book-plate, inside upper

• Detail of puzzle initial., De Consolatione Philosophiae (index Consolation of Philosophy)

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 book-plate with the