• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

over an erasure (f. 2); press-mark of St Augustin's 'Dist. XVI Ga IIII' (f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at

• Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the royal arms of England with a crest of a lion, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, with a motto reading 'Dieu ets mon droit', and two Beaufort badges of portcullises.

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII., Anabasis

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesque hybrids heading into battle (one with an ape sitting on his back), at the beginning of the prologue addressed to Henry VII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the

• Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Artaxerxes enthroned, with his courtiers; the arrest of Cyrus; Darius ill in bed, and a physician with a flask. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de

• Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead, with grotesque hybrids, flowers, and plants in the full foliate border. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel,

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the Greek army with Xenophon, and piles of the dead. 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

• Detail of a miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of Louis XII enthroned receiving the book from the translator, Claude de Seyssel, at the beginning of the prologue of the translator addressed to Louis XII. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation

• 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

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of a king kneeling before Christ., Fragment of a Psalter

the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.3 notes on f. [i]:'This fragment of an ancient Psalter was found at the back of a shelf among refuse Articles. From the handwriting of Humfrey Wanley at

• Puzzle initial on the first page of text, from the book of Job, with Arundel and Lumley ownership signatures., Bible (Job to Revelation)

in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries,