• Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine., Theological extracts and various letters

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

• Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine., Theological extracts and various letters

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

• Arabesque initial 'M'(oriente), at the beginning of book 20 of the Antiquitates judaicae, to the left is a colour note 'R'., Antiquitates judaicae, chapters 15-20 (ff. 1-83v); De bello judaico, books 1-7 (ff. 83v-205)

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

• Arabesque initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of the prologue of the De bello judaico, to the left is a faint colour-note 'V'., Antiquitates judaicae, chapters 15-20 (ff. 1-83v); De bello judaico, books 1-7 (ff. 83v-205)

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

• Arabesque initial, at the beginning of a rubric in the De bello judaico., Antiquitates judaicae, chapters 15-20 (ff. 1-83v); De bello judaico, books 1-7 (ff. 83v-205)

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

• Detail of a historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart, Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies

Publications Society, 1950- ), I: Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks: Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries~, no. 463 (dated 1711 to London). A partial scatter border (f. 2). A historiated initial with a portrait of Augustine (f. 2). Large and small

• Initial 'D'(ominus) in Hugh of Langres's Commentaries on the Psalms., Commentarius in Psalmos (ff. 1-212v); Interpretatione alphabeti hebraici (ff. 213)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to 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

• Initial 'D'(ominus) in Hugh of Langres's Commentaries on the Psalms., Commentarius in Psalmos (ff. 1-212v); Interpretatione alphabeti hebraici (ff. 213)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to 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

• 'Historical' annals of the six ages of the world, up to 1099 in English, added as a final leaf to the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to 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

• List of the names of the bishops of the west Saxons, in both Latin and Old English, added as the last leaf of the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to 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

• Decorated initial 'D'(ixit)' at the beginning of Jerome on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms 109-149, with a homily on Numbers 20:10

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6399.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

• Text page with initials and rubrics., De vita contemplativa et activa

(f. 2v), (see ~Heads of Religious Houses in England and Wales~, 3 vols., ed. by David M. Smith and Vera London (Cambridge: University Press, 1972-2001), I (p. 64), II (p. 62).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory

• Puzzle initial with penwork flourishing, and in the lower margin, the ownership inscription 'James Orchard Halliwell No. 220'., Lives of saints, 28 miracles of the Virgin, and Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio Sancti Patricii (ff. 195-196)

Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Probably Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: inscribed with a price in pencil '£1.0.0' (upper pastedown).J. R. Smith: purchased by the British Museum on 25

• Diagrams of star signs., Treatise on the astrolabe

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £2 2s, along with 32 other

• Coloured initials 'S'(i), 'C'(um), and 'E'(adem)., Treatise on the astrolabe

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for £2 2s, along with 32 other

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

abbey of Sainte Genevieve, Paris: inscription in a 17th-century hand 'Ex libris S. Genovefae Parisiensis' (f. 1).James Woodman, bookseller of London; purchased by Harley in 1725 (see Humphrey Wanley's diary, Lansdowne 772, f. 51v).Inscription 'A (?)/S' (f. 1).The Harley Collection,

• Historiated initial 'F'(errum) of the Agnus Dei, at the beginning of the prologue to the Corrogationes Promethei of Alexander Nequam., Corrogationes Promethei; Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos; miscellaneous works of Augustine; sermons attributed to Caesarius

English in a pre-Wycliffite version (for the transcription, see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734), p. 78), mid-14th century (f. 307).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1229',

• Coloured initial and rubric in display capitals., End of 'Contra mendacium' followed by the beginning of 'De cura pro mortuis gerenda', cropped leaf

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972).Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Miniature of Mark, quill in hand, seated at a lecturn., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972).Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought