• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of the Nativity, in brown ink, combined with a full border in colours and gold with acanthus leaves and flowers, at the beginning of an indenture dated 1529., Indentures dated to the 21st year in the reign of Henry VIII

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. Nativity London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Pen-flourished initial 'P'(ie recordationis affectu, fratres carissimi)., Fragments of a liturgical manuscript, including De commendatione animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation

animarum and De sepultura mortuorum, with musical notation Dame Elizabeth Horwode, abbess of the convent of Franciscan nuns without Aldgate, London: late-fifteenth century colophon requesting that the book remain at the convent and that the sisters pray for her father

• Pen-flourished initials 'I'(n) and 'M'(ultitudine)., Devotional miscellany, including the Meditationes ascribed to Augustine, William of Rymington's Meditationes (ff. 34-45)

recto.On the Sheen reclusory, near Richmond, Surrey, see Lawrence Hendriks, ~The London Charterhouse: Its Monks and its Martyrs, with a Short Account of the English Carthusians after the Dissolution~ (London: Kegan Paul, 1889), p. 13. Initials in blue with red

• Text page with manumissions in Latin and Old English., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Text page with decorated initial 'N'(ovum) and manumissions in lower margin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Text page with manumissions in lower margin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Canon tables., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Canon tables., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Decorated initials 'IN' with 'I' forming interlace pattern border at the beginning of Mark's gospel., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Text page with a sketch of a man's head in profile in the margin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• A frame with five roundels and interlace panels, probably intended for a 'Christ in Majesty' miniature., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Text page with manumissions in Old English and Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• 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)

• Illuminated initial and three-sided border with the heraldic arms of Johanna de Mohun, a benefactor of Christ Church who died in 1405(?), at the beginning of the account of her life., 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 'V'(erbum), at the beginning of the Tractatus super oratione dominica; in the lower margin, inscription of the Carthusians of Mainz., Dialogus rationis, and other theological tracts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.2.21’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• White vine initial 'C'(um), and three-sided border, at the beginning of the prologue. In the right margin Arundel's signature, with date and place of purchase, 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

• Foliate initial 'C'(ogitanti) and full border, at the beginning of Cicero's De oratore., De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere oratorum (ff. 116v-118v)

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

• Foliate initial 'T'(Tite), [should be 'O'], and partial border, at the beginning of Cicero's De senectute., De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere oratorum (ff. 116v-118v)

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

• Historiated initial 'W'(han) with Lydgate as a monk riding a horse, at the beginning of the prologue of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

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

• Foliate initial 'P'(assed) with three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of part 2 of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes., The Siege of Thebes

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