• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(antate) of David kneeling with a harp, and trumpeters before an ark, at the beginning of Psalm 97., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

red and blue. The figure of God perhaps deliberately erased (f. 113). Psalter with canticles, imperfect The calendar perhaps of London origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, with the figure of God deliberately erased, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

red and blue. The figure of God perhaps deliberately erased (f. 113). Psalter with canticles, imperfect The calendar perhaps of London origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in

• Historiated initial with the dove of the Holy Spirit., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Holy Spirit London England, S. E. ( London)

• Historiated initial with an angel., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Angel London England, S. E. ( London)

• null, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

the 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. London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' of Christ rising from the tomb., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

£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. The Risen Christ London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D' of Christ in glory, displaying his wounds., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

£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. Christ in Glory London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D' of clerics and mourners surrounding a black-draped coffin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Funeral London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B' of a soul being lifted from the grave by two angels., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Resurrection London England, S. E. ( London)

• Musical notation., Gradual, of Carthusian use, imperfect, including Temporale and Sanctorale

Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Musical notation London England, S. E. (London)

• Headpiece with geometric decoration and initial 'T' with foliate decoration., Miscellany of devotional texts, including Gerasimus's On Communion (ff. 1v-24v) and Riddles (ff. 33-34), and a hymn in memory of St Ambrose of Milan (ff. 61v-62)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated headpiece and initial Gennadios of Cyprus, hierodeacon Gennadios of Cyprus Gerasimus (index Gerasimos) Patriarch of Alexandria London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David praying with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

red and blue. The figure of God perhaps deliberately erased (f. 113). Psalter with canticles, imperfect The calendar perhaps of London origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart at the beginning of the Pseudo-Augustine Manuale, with the arms or the Urswick family and the motto 'Misericordia' in the lower border., Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies

Publications Society, 1950- ), I: Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks: Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries~, no. 463 (dated 1711 to London). A partial scatter border (f. 2). A historiated initial with a portrait of Augustine (f. 2). Large and small

• Miniature with the portrait of King Henry VIII, and the beginning of John Croke's English translation of Psalms., Psalms in English verse (girdle book)

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. King Henry VIII John Croke (translator) London England, S. E. (London)

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of the Annunciation, with floral borders with a peacock, owl, and a bear playing bagpipes, at the beginning of Matins of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Annunciation London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(omine) of the Annunciation, at the beginning of Matins of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Annunciation London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of a peacock, from a floral border, at the beginning of Matins of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Peacock London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of an owl from a floral border, at the beginning of Matins of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

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. Owl London England, S. E. ( London)

• Detail of a bear playing bagpipes from a floral border, at the beginning of Matins of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')

£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. Bear playing bagpipes London England, S. E. ( London)

• Drawing of the Tree of Virtutes., ~Speculum Theologiae~ diagrams, Peter of Poitiers,~ Genealogia historiarum~, and biblical tables

other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Tree of Virtutes John Dygon John Dygon Peter of Poitiers London England, S. E. (London or Sheen Priory, Surrey?)