• Miniature of David, puzzle initial 'S' developing a border including a peacock, in the Breviary., Breviary, including computistic circles, table, and instructions, a caldenar of Utrecht, a Psalter, a standard lay Breviary text with a Psalter and the Office of the Dead, a litany, and an added Office of Barbara

Inscription, 18th century: 'Theyers Constanten'(?) (1st flyleaf).Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 9th December 1848 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long,

• Illuminated initial 'T'(he) at the beginning of Matthew., New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version, with prologues and a calendar and table of lessons for the use of Sarum from both Testaments

Cat. Part xi. MS no. 1537 / February 1826' (f. [ii]); his sale, 1836, lot 1513, bought by Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller for £18 18s.Payne and Foss: bought by the British Museum in 1849, for £30, using the Bridgewater fund

• Illuminated initial 'I' with foliate decoration., New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version, with prologues and a calendar and table of lessons for the use of Sarum from both Testaments

Cat. Part xi. MS no. 1537 / February 1826' (f. [ii]); his sale, 1836, lot 1513, bought by Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller for £18 18s.Payne and Foss: bought by the British Museum in 1849, for £30, using the Bridgewater fund

• Decorated initial 'E'(va) and border with leaves and foliate decoration., Meditationes, Soliloquia (ff. [28-74v]), and Manuale (ff. [74v-97v]); Liber Supputationum (suspiria) (ff. 97v-[114]); and various prayers or meditations

Sigismund Goertze (d. 1939) and former owner of a number of manuscripts now at the Fitzwilliam Museum; sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1942, lot 326.Henry Davis (b. 1897, d. 1977), businessman and book collector: his book-plate (inside upper cover);

• Marginal diagrams., De Philosophia, Astronomical treatises, Imago Mundi (f. 43), etc.

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1 5s., along with 32 other

• Coloured initial., Kalendaria (ff. 1-12v); Astronomical treatises

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Illuminated initial and border., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Decorated initials., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Drawing of a chemical process with a standing man, in the Practica geometrie., Scientific miscellany, including John Metham's Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 75-96)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £1, along with 32 other manuscripts

• Decorated initial., Office and Mass of the Dead (vol. 2)

J. R. Abbey, see E. Ph. Goldschmidt, ~Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings: Exemplified and Illustrated from the Author's Collection~, 2 vols (London: Benn, 1928), I, no. 167, II, pls. 61-62, and Joseph Brassinne, ~La Reliure Mosane~, 2 vols (Liège: Société des

• Puzzle initial 'M'(an) with pen-flourishing., Memoriale Credencium

Paraph marks in red or blue. Memoriale Credencium 15th century annotations throughout.Statutes of Bishop Roger Niger for the archdeaconry of London: added in a 15th century hand (ff. 1-3).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend

• Pedigree of the Grimshaw of Claiton (index Clayton), with their coat of arms., 'The Visitacion of Lancashire' (index Visitation of Lancashire) (unfinished)

of Lancashire) (unfinished) William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), herald, playwright and topographer, c. 1575 citizen and Haberdasher of London, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1597: written by him in 1598 following a visitation in 1467 (f. 2*), notes probably

• Detail of text page., Legenda Aurea (The Golden Legend), ending imperfectly

£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. Text page Richard Franciscus Ricardus Franciscus England, S. (London)

• Miniature of the Adoration of the Magi, illuminated initial 'D'(eus) and foliate borders, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen

red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen Tias and Newman family, London, 16th to early 17th century: numerous inscriptions in the calendar, recording births and obits of members of the families

• Miniature of the Flight into Egypt, illuminated initial 'D'(eus) and foliate borders, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen

red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen Tias and Newman family, London, 16th to early 17th century: numerous inscriptions in the calendar, recording births and obits of members of the families

• Text page., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Miniature of Pentecost, decorated initial 'D'(omine) and foliate borders, at the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Spirit., Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen

red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen Tias and Newman family, London, 16th to early 17th century: numerous inscriptions in the calendar, recording births and obits of members of the families

• Illuminated initials., Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen

red and blue grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow. Book of Hours, Use effaced, probably Rouen Tias and Newman family, London, 16th to early 17th century: numerous inscriptions in the calendar, recording births and obits of members of the families

• Fragment of a text page., 'Ab urbe condita', the first decade only

lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (front pastedown; see Wright 1972).Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 176, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel (see Wright and Wright 1966;

• Miniature of the imprisoned Margaret receiving food from a maid., Life of Margaret of Antioch in verse (index Vita di S. Margarita) (ff. 1-54); Latin prayer (ff. 55-56)

di S. Margarita) (ff. 1-54); Latin prayer (ff. 55-56) Charles Davis (bap. 1693, d. 1755), bookseller, an apprentice to the London bookseller Nathaniel Noel: sold to the Harleys on 29 October 1722 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed