• Puzzle initial 'P'(uer) at the beginning of the music for Christmas day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Decorated initial 'G'(audeamus) at the beginning of the music for the feast of Guthlac on 11 April, with 14th-century marginal additions., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Decorated initial 'D'(ilexisti) at the beginning of the music for the feast day of the virgin Pega, the sister of Guthlac, who lived as an anchoress at Peakirk, a little north of Peterborough., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Decorated initial 'S' at the beginning of the music for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, also known as Candlemas Day, on 2 February (the 40th day after Christmas day)., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Puzzle initial 'P'(uer) at the beginning of the music for Christmas day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Musical notation., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Puzzle initial 'R'(esurrexi) at the beginning of the music for Easter day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Tinted drawing of Rotokritos disclosing his love for Aretusa to Polidoros., Erotokritos, romance in 15-syllable rhymed couplets, prededed by a table of contents (ff. 1-8)

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. Rotokritos and Polidoros Vitzentzos Kornaros (index Vincenzo Cornaro ?) Greece, Ionian Isles

• Illuminated initial 'R'(egine) at the beginning of Ambrose's De fide, decorated with acanthus leaves., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uisnam) at the beginning of the prologue to book five of Ambrose's De fide, with pen-flourishing., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• Puzzle initial 'C'(ogitanti) at the beginning of book 4 of Ambrose's De fide, (although the word should be 'Consideranti') with delicate red and blue penwork decoration in the bowl of the letter., De fide, de spiritu sancto, and de incarnationis dominicae sacramento

in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts’, 27 June 1811, lot 237, bought by Heber for 1s. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D.,

• Illuminated initial 'E'(ntre) at the beginning of the prologue., Anabasis

Illuminated initial 'E'(ntre) at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris

• Text pages with illuminated initials., Anabasis

Text pages with illuminated initials. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of the Greek text

• Miniature of the Greek camp, with messengers reporting the death of Cyrus., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek camp, with messengers reporting the death of Cyrus. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version

• Miniature of Greeks by the sea shore ascending a path, with Orientals looking on., Anabasis

Miniature of Greeks by the sea shore ascending a path, with Orientals looking on. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the

• Miniature of the Greeks in council on the shore, with an island castle and ship nearby, with a full foliate border with birds and grotesques., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greeks in council on the shore, with an island castle and ship nearby, with a full foliate border with birds and grotesques. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude

• Miniature of the Greeks making merry., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greeks making merry. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of the Greek

• Detail of a miniature of the Greeks making merry., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the Greeks making merry. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris

• Miniature of fighting at the gates of Byzantium., Anabasis

Miniature of fighting at the gates of Byzantium. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of

• Decorated initial 'V'(erba) containing a bird amidst foliage. The series of marks like the letter 's' in the margins are placed to the right of biblical quotations. At the extreme lower edge is a guide to the rubricator, but the rubric was never supplied, perhaps because the artist did not leave sufficient space., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.