• Miniature of pageant figures personifying the virtues expected of a queen of France, with Old Testament heroinnes gathered around a queen: Rachel, Leah, Rebecca, and Esther, with Prudence, Generosity, Justice, and Temperance below., Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• Miniature of three woman., Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Le Sacre de Claude de France

France Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Henry IV to 12 Henry VI, in chronological order

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl

• null, Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Henry IV to 12 Henry VI, in chronological order

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl

• Miniature of Alexander the Great and his army make a sacrifice on the night before the Battle of Issus in Vasco da Lucena's French translation of Rufus's Historia Alexandri magni., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni)

de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).

• Miniature of Alexander the Great encounters Diogenes in his barrel in Vasco da Lucena's French translation of Rufus's Historia Alexandri magni, executed mainly in grisaille., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni)

de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).

• Miniature of Alexander the Great consulting his astrologers about an eclipse of the sun after the battle of Arbela and illuminated initial 'A'(lexandre) in Vasco da Lucena's French translation of Rufus's Historia Alexandri magni., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni)

de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).

• Historiated and foliate border of medallions with Peter, Isaiah and another prophet bearing scrolls inscribed 'Egredietur virga de radice Iesse et flos de radice' (Isaiah 11:1) and 'Ecce rex tuus venit sanctu(s) et s' and the Medici devices of Leo X: a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave', and three winged putti, measuring 445 x 35 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.

• Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and blue, on two banners held by angels and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', with two shields with the same arms differenced by a label of three and five points for the king's two sons, in the lower margin, and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', on the external margin., Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale) books 1-5

Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and

• Detail of a full border containing the royal arms on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and on a banner held by an angel, between two lozenges bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 1 of book 1., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 1 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list

• Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and blue, on two banners held by angels and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', with two shields with the same arms differenced by a label of three and five points for the king's two sons, in the lower margin, and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', on the external margin., Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale) books 1-5

Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and

• Miniature of the sortie from Nantes, with a full border containing the royal arms on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', in the lower margin, and on a banner held by an angel, between two lozenges bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the external margin, at the beginning of chapter 1 of book 2., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the external margin, at the beginning of chapter 1 of book 2. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n the name of God)., Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire

contained the Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme in the County of Oxford; founded by William de la Pole Duke of Suffolke & Alice his Wife, with the consent of King Henry VI for the maintenance of two Priests &

• Detail of a miniature of the Duke of Gloucester receiving Richard II at the Castle of Pleshy., Chroniques, Vol. IV, part 2

(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. Richard II Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the

• null, Prayer book

at the beginning of the Hours of the Passion of the Virgin (ff. 2v-3). 1 full-page miniature, framed by flowers, at the beginning of a prayer, misbound, the corresponding text missing (f. 62); 2 other miniatures of the same size