• Decorated initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Illuminated unfinished initials 'C'(orduba), 'B'(ella), and 'Q(uris), at the beginning of Lucanus's Pharsalia; interlinear and marginal glosses added by Johann Pirckheimer., Pharsalia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'V'(estra) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Pseudo-Boethius's De disciplina scholarium., De disciplina scholarium, with glosses

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.23’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Ink drawing of Virgil, crowned; Puzzle initial 'P'(rimus)., 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

• Inhabited foliate initial 'A'(bsenti) with a seated man and a naked man, at the beginning of Joannes de Milis's Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum., Repertorium aureum sive lexicon juridicum

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 'R'(es) at the beginning of William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum Anglorum., Gesta regum Anglorum, imperfect

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

• Puzzle initial 'A'(t) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of book 3 of Valerius Maximus's Memorabilia., Facta et dicta memorabilia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.6.28’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Flourished initial 'A'(t), at the beginning of Book 4 of Lucanus's Pharsalia., Pharsalia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Diagram., Pharsalia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Marginal diagram., Pharsalia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of decorated initials., Pharsalia

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XV.6.16’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Text page., Part of a lectionary

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6637.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• null, Harmonica

Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7949 (‘Cl. Ptolemaei Harmonicorum Libri tres, cum scholiis ineditis, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12855 , bought by Sims for 12s 6d. (At this date, the manuscript was

• 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

• Illuminated initial with penwork decoration, including an added sketch of a king, at the beginning of the Opus qui Candelabrum nominatur; in the lower margin heraldic arms added., Candelabrum, followed by a list of chapters (ff. 77-80)

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 book-plate with the

• Detail of illuminated initial., Candelabrum, followed by a list of chapters (ff. 77-80)

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 book-plate with the

• Historiated and foliate initial 'O' in colours and gold, of Clare of Assisi. The saint is barefoot, and holding a lily and a book., Cutting from a service book

by her soon after World War II through her brother, Tomás Harris, managing director of the Spanish Art Gallery in London. Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of inheritance tax from the estates of Miss Violeta Harris and her sister,

• Detail of historiated initial of a bishop., Summa de casibus poenitentiae, 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. 3); its book-plate with the