• Border of floral motifs and bezants with a kneeling winged putto and the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper'. The present border is composed of two cuttings, the first measuring 200 x 45 mm and the second 240 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• Border of floral motifs, bezants and a zoomorphic lion's head with a winged putto standing on a medallion inscribed 'L.X.P.M.', measuring 455 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• Border of floral motifs and bezants with the Medici devices of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' flanked by two winged putti and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave surmounted by an initial 'N' within a medallion, measuring 435 x 55 mm. Gold filigree ornament has been applied vertically on the left of the border., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• Historiated and foliate border of a medallion with the Medici device of a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave' surmounted by a standing winged putto, measuring 445 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.

• Illuminated puzzle initials 'Q'(ue) and 'D'(ixit), with line flourishing in blue., Leaves from a Book of Hours, containing the text for the Hours of the Virgin as said during Advent (ff. 1-3), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 4-8), Litanies (ff. 8-12), and Office of the Dead (ff. 13-21), Use of Rome

'?Bologna, first half of 15th century (opinion of Dr Otto Pacht)'. Harry and Virginia Walton, of New York: their sale, Blomsbury Auction, New York, 4 April 2009, lot 7; purchased by The British Library. Puzzle initials Master of the Brussels

• Historiated full-page border of a portrait, the arms, unicorn, rainbow and lily emblems and Greek motto 'Dikes krinon' of Paul III, shells, flowers, putti, urns, butterflies and ladybirds (the text excised). Historiated initial 'N' (cropped; the lower part of the letter is visible at the top right of the miniature) of the Last Supper beneath a cartouche inscribed in capitals 'Desiderio desideravi / hoc pascha manduc / are vobiscum', surrounded by a frame composed of four cuttings., Cuttings from a Missal of Paul III

first publication of the catalogue of his collection in 1869 and the second edition of 1876 (see Robinson 1876). Purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum in 1895.Transferred to the Department of Manuscripts of the

• null, Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Edward VI (the Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England)

Longer English genealogical chronicle of the kings of England) The text of the chronicle ends with Richard III (f. 33). The pictorial genealogy continues to Henry VIII in the same scribal and artistic hand, including Catherine of Aragon, Mary, and

• Decorated initial 'R'(ichard) at the beginning of statutes of Richard II., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), imperfect, and other texts, including a calendar (ff. 6-11v)

Decorated initial 'R'(ichard) at the beginning of statutes ofRichard II. There are 3 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 16, and 4 after f. 144. Full border in gold and colours (f. 17). Large initial in colours with foliate decoration

• Flourished initial 'C'(um), and three-sided border, at the beginning of Alanus de Insulis's De planctu naturae., De planctu naturae (ff. 1-57v); Philobiblon (ff. 58-101v)

1).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The

• Historiated initial 'R'(icardus) in colours and gold with king Richard II, combined with a foliate bar border ending in a hand holding a scroll with the inscription 'Morrys Stafford me fecit', at the beginning of the text., Registrum brevium

librarian of Robert and Edward Harley 'Bought of Mr Noble' (f. 1).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford

• Added list of the knights of the Order of the Garter., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Page from a printed book., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Added notes., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Added notes., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Page from a printed book., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Full-page miniature of Edward III, wearing a blue Garter mantle, with his arms., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Full-page miniature of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, wearing a blue Garter mantle, with his arms., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Miniature of William Bruges kneeling before George., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the

• Decorated initial 'W'(e), and a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower: 'Forasmutche as you have desired so simple a woman to wrighte in so worthye a booke (good) mayster lieutenaunte therefore I shall as a frende desyre you and as a christian require you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not [on the next page] to take the worde of trewthe utterlye oute of youre mouthe...', Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

page] to take the worde of trewthe utterlye oute of youre mouthe...' Contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation from the Latin of Wolfgang's Capito's ~Precationes Christianae ad imitationem psalmorum compositae~, printed as ~An epitome of the Psalmes, or briefe

• Miniature of the Garter King wearing a tabard with the royal arms and crown kneeling before George, who is spearing a dragon, with two Garters at the top of the page. The Garter King may be a representation of the first Garter King, William Bruges. On the facing folio is an added inscription., Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')

heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order). Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the