• Detail of marginal drawing of Virgil., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), 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

• Detail of puzzle initial., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), 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

• Detail of inscription., Domesday book (ends imperfectly)

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

• Detail of miniatures of the mocking of Christ; and to the right, Israelites spit on Hur who refuses to adore the golden calf., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Detail of historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

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 a miniature of a tower symbolising the Virgin, with coats of arms., Speculum humanae salvationis

notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff.

• Miniatures of the death of Codrus, king of Athens: disguised as a peasant, he seeks to be killed by enemy soldiers to save his city, because he had learned from the oracle that the side whose king fell would be victorious ; and on the right, Eleazar, brother of Judas Maccabeus, kills an elephant of war and is killed himself when the elephant falls on him., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Detail of miniatures of the Deposition; and of Joseph's blood-stained coat being shown to Jacob, who tears his clothes on seeing the garment, illustrating chapter 26., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Miniatures of the Resurrection, with the elect and the damned; and on the right, the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Detail of miniatures of the giving of the Tablets the Law to Moses; and on the right, the widow's oil, illustrating chapter 34., Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Miniatures of hell and the torments of the damned, illustrating chapter 41., Speculum humanae salvationis

underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff. 51v-52).

• Detail of a miniature of an angel playing an instrument, illustrating chapter 42., Speculum humanae salvationis

notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff.

• Miniature of figures holding scrolls., Speculum humanae salvationis

in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff. 51v-52). 1 partial border

• Badges of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elisabeth I., Book of royal arms and badges from Brute to James I

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. Tudor badges William Segar William Segar William Segar London England, S. E. (London)

• Arms and badge of James I., Book of royal arms and badges from Brute to James I

the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Arms and badge of James I William Segar William Segar William Segar London England, S. E. (London)

• 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)

• Detail of a miniature of Christ enthroned, illustrating chapter 42., Speculum humanae salvationis

the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff. 51v-52). 1

• 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

• Detail of a miniature depicting a woman at a fountain handing a chalice to a man, while two camels drink from the fountain (the Samarian woman and Christ at the well?), Speculum humanae salvationis

Catchwords. Middle Dutch notes underneath the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures

• Detail of a miniature of the betrayal of Christ., Speculum humanae salvationis

the miniatures in quire C.The miniatures were painted by a Dutch artist, probably based in London. 192 miniatures (2 per page, ff. 3v-51) and 2 full-page miniatures, each divided into 6 compartments featuring two figures holding scrolls (ff. 51v-52). 1