• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• A historiated initial 'F' with foliate extension and medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing of Michael slaying the dragon., Cutting from a choir book

A historiated initial 'F' with foliate extension and medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing of Michael slaying the dragon. Italian cutting.The present cutting was formerly foliated by the number of the guard on which it is mounted, as f. 2. It

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St Paul Cathedral, London, and friend of Erasmus, as a memorial of his father Henry Colet (d. 1505): colophon 'Summe et Individue trinitiati...

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

at Oxford (f. 150v).John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).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

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome writing, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of the prologue., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome writing, at the beginning of the prologue., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of a border with a medallion of Descent into Limbo in the lower margin., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of a miniature of Adam and Eve, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'V'(ocavit) of Israelites offering sacrifice to God, at the beginning of Leviticus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'V'(ocavit) of Israelits offering sacrifice to God, at the beginning of Leviticus., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Historiated initial 'L'(ocutus) of Moses and Christ, at the beginning of Numbers., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis

• Detail of an historiated initial 'L'(ocutus) of Moses and Christ, at the beginning of Numbers., Bible (Octateuch)

another supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. See ~Henry VIII: Man and Monarch~, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis