• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Full-page miniature of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John, with a full border including flowers, insects and a parody of tournament., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Detail of a miniature of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Detail of a miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the manuscript includes both

• Decorated initial 'I'(f) containing 2 dragons, and with foliate feathering extending between the columns and into the margins at the beginning of book 3., Confessio amantis, imperfect

£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. Decorated initial John Gower London England, S. E. (?London)

• Decorated initial 'U'(pon) with foliate feathering including a male figure, extending between the columns and into the margins at the beginning of book 4., Confessio amantis, imperfect

£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. Decorated initial John Gower London England, S. E. (?London)

• Miniature of a boy being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

being thrown by cattle from London Bridge, and floating in the water with a boatman rowing towards him, with a marginal inscription, from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the

• Diagram., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial 'F'(uit) of the Anoiting of David., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Detail of historiated initial, with a king in bed, and pointing to a building., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Text page., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.Sir Anthony St Leger (b. 1496?, d. 1559), lord deputy of Ireland: 'This

• Penwork initial 'P' in green and red, at the beginning of the Epistles of Paul., Glossed Pauline Epistles; treatise on prayer, Donatio Constantini, excerpta from Augustine and Jerome

et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6513 or 6523.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(aulus) formed of interlaced dragons, at the beginning of Romans., Pauline Epistles with glosses, imperfect

et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6513 or 6523;Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge

• Miniature of the entry into Paris of Isabella of Bavaria, with a full border containing a blank space for a coat of arms, at the beginning of the fourth volume of the Chroniques of Froissart., Chroniques

at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Isabella of Bavaria Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.

• Miniature of Richard II giving instruction to the earl Marshal and another man, with a partial border., Chroniques

books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Richard II Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.

• Miniature in colours and gold, of the martyrdom of Bartholomew with the saint being flayed alive., Leaf from a Collectar, Use of Rome

intercessione salvemus. Amen'. Leaf from a Collectar, Use of Rome Inscribed on verso 'No. 2'.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

• Historiated initial 'O' of the Assumption of the Virgin. The Madonna, seated in a mandorla supported by four angels, gives her girdle to Thomas. In the foreground are the other eleven Apostles., Cutting from a service book

Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books, in the library of the Honourable Robert Curzon, at Parham in the county of Sussex~ (London: William Nicol, 1849). Darea Curzon (b. 1860, d. 1917), 16th baroness Zouche: bequeathed by her to the British Museum

• Partial text reading '…s principius/…tutis tue i(n) Sy/...con ex uter/…citer genuit/…ant d(omi)n(u)s et no(n)/…eum. Tu es sa'., Cutting from a service book

Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books, in the library of the Honourable Robert Curzon, at Parham in the county of Sussex~ (London: William Nicol, 1849). Darea Curzon (b. 1860, d. 1917), 16th baroness Zouche: bequeathed by her to the British Museum

• Half-page miniature of the Roman army defeated at the Forche Caudine, with a decorated initial 'A'., '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;