• Montage composed of a miniature of the Martyrdom of Blaise surmounted by two Medici devices of a yoke with motto 'Suave' (centre); a three-sided historiated border of the arms of Clement VII, the Medici devices of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other striking the banner but with no effect, and two sibyls in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (left); and a single historiated border of the Medici 'Candor Illesus' device, two prophets in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (right)., Cuttings from a Missal of Clement VII

Esther Rosenbaum Collection (see Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 213 [not illustrated]).Former New York, Breslauer Collection (see Voelkle and Wieck, cat. no. 90).Former London, Northwick Collection (see Sotheby’s, London, 16 November 1925, lot 115). London, Ford Collection, RF13 (see

• Historiated initial 'M' of the Calling of Peter and Andrew., Cutting from a choir book

(see ~Miniature dell'Italia Settentironale nella Fondzione Giorgio Cini~, ed. by Giordana Mariani Canova (Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 1978), cat. nos. 108a-d); London, Wallace Collection, M325-M326, and M333-M335; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 104 (2009.51); Milan, Longari collection, (see ~Una

• Detail of a miniature of Paul writing an epistle, with a messenger waiting to carry it for him, and with John Colet, kneeling, with the full border including flowers, insects and a peacock, and a foliate initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Romans., Pauline and Catholic Epistles in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

ac Serenissimi Re/gis Anglie Henrici Septimi vigesimo s[e]c[un]do. / ...'(vol. II, f. 358v). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Pieter Meghen Pieter Meghen London England, S. E (London)

• Historiated and foliate initial 'G' of the Assumption of the Virgin. The Virgin, supported by six seraphim, lowers her girdle to Thomas, who kneels with the other apostles by the empty bed., Cutting from a choir book

eighth day (6 May 1856) of the sale by Tiffin for £1 10s. Walter Benjamin Tiffin (b. 1795, d. 1877), London art dealer and publisher: purchased from him by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum on

• Historiated and foliate initial 'O' of Christ blessing Peter, with bezants and floral motifs in the margin., Cutting from a choir 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,

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, urns, and bezants, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, urns, horns and bezants, measuring 360 x 35 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 40 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, and bezants, measuring 360 x 40 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A border with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, an urn, bezants, and an anthropomorphic head, measuring 360 x 45 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• Section of border with floral motifs, bezants and two zoomorphic heads. Remnants of illumination visible on reverse, measuring 40 x 175 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• Section of border with floral motifs and bezants, measuring 70 x 175 mm. Similar decoration visible on reverse., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• Section of border with floral motif, an urn and bezants, measuring 65 x 170 mm. Similar decoration visible on the reverse., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• Section of border with floral motifs and bezants. Similar decoration visible on reverse, measuring 35 x 170 mm., Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII

Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• Miniature of putti celebrating the name of Christ with the IHS monogram within an aureole flanked by musicians seated on clouds, and with a group of dancing figures below., Leaves from a liturgical manuscript

below. In f. B the figures are all female. Leaves from a liturgical manuscript Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: his sale, 16 June 1854, lot 1635: purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Miniature of female putti celebrating the name of the Virgin, with the MAR monogram within an aureole flanked by musicians seated on clouds, and below a group of dancing female figures., Leaves from a liturgical manuscript

below. In f. B the figures are all female. Leaves from a liturgical manuscript Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: his sale, 16 June 1854, lot 1635: purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the

• Full-page decoration at the beginning of a ~piyyut~ (liturgical poem) for Yom Kippur (Davidson vol. 1, no. 2106). The text of the poem is surrounded by an architectural frame with towers on both sides and with columns held by lions. The upper section of the frame is scallopped and is flanked by a dragon and a hybrid., Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor')

42) 5 decorated catchwords (ff. 69v, 77v, 84v, 90v, 98v). Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor') Hayyim, the scribe: the word ~hayyim~ is decorated on ff. 10, 31, 37v, 67, 103v,

• Historiated initial with the presentation of an astrological textbook to King Henry VII, with the bishop and presenter of the book pointing to the stars, and an illuminated initial 'P'(ost), and floral scatter border with a bird in the lower margin, at the beginning of the Tractatus de revolutionibus in Guido Bonatti's ~Liber astronomiae~., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Henry VII Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of the dragon constellation ('Draco'), in tables from Ptolemy's Almagest., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

College: inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Dragon Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)