• null, Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured initials., Miscellany of prose and verse, including Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London breaking off in 1470; the Seven Sages of Rome (ff. 3-54v)

prose and verse, including Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London breaking off in 1470; the Seven Sages of Rome (ff. 3-54v) Inscription 'Thomas Coose Noyttin (?), 16th century (f.

• Tinted drawing of king Henry VI on horseback., Coats of Arms in the time of Henry VI

Tinted drawing of king Henry VI on horseback. The London shields include those of Wyfolde or Wywold, Gregory and Norman, Lord Mayors in 1450, 1451, and 1453; John Derby, sheriff of London in 1446; John Stockton and William Stoker, Lord

• Historiated initial 'O' of the Cross (top centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Historiated initial 'S' of Francis showing his stigmata (lower centre)., Cuttings from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Detail of historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

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

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(ui), and full foliate border with putti holding heraldic arms, at the beginning of Ludovicus Lazarelli's Liber de apparatu Patavini Astiludii., Liber de apparatu Patavini Astiludii ad reverendum dominum D. Iohannem Chetvorth de Britannia, a description of the festivities organised by John Chedworth as rector of the Jurists at the University of Padua in 1467-68

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.9.24’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• 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,

• Decorated headpiece at the beginning of Hermogenes's Peri ton staeon., Peri ton stason, Peri eureseon, Peri ideon logou, with prologues, and various notes, proverbs, and verses

his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7909): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 1281, bought by Burney. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by

• null, Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

pp. 1-24, reprinted in N. R. Ker, ~Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage~, ed. A. G. Watson (London and Ronceverte, 1985), pp. 471-96; the present manuscript cited with the siglum 'P. 8.'Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• null, Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

pp. 1-24, reprinted in N. R. Ker, ~Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage~, ed. A. G. Watson (London and Ronceverte, 1985), pp. 471-96; the present manuscript cited with the siglum 'P. 8.'Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• Decorated initials 'N'(atus), 'S'(ororum), and 'P'(oeta)., Comoediae (index Comedies)

names in red. Comoediae (index Comedies) N. Thiboust: inscribed with his name in the 16th century (f. 1*).Matthew de Varenne, London bookseller and auctioneer (fl. 1723/4): his sale, 21 December 1723, lot 231.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b.

• Historiated initial 'D' in colours and gold, of a young male martyr saint holding a sword, a palm frond and an arrow., Leaf of a Hymnal, containing portions of the hymns beginning 'Exultet celum laudibus' for the Vespers of the Commune Apostolorum, and 'Deus tuorum militum' for the Vespers of the Commune Unius Martyris.

Foliated (?) lower right '25' (struck out) and '154'.Presented by John E. Leary, violin and pianoforte instructor, of 59 Hazelville Road, Hornsey Lane, [London] N, 1930: his business card attached to the mount (f. 1). Martyr Lombardy Italy, N. (?Lombardy)