• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) of the Nativity of Christ, with the border containing the Annunciation, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, and the head of Christ and three animals, at the beginning of Psalm 26., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Nativity England

• Decorated initial 'A'(d te) with a partial bar border., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial

• Historiated initial 'D' of David and the fool, at the beginning of the ersed text of Psalm 52., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David and

• Decorated initial 'S'(alvum) with a partial bar border., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial

• Historiated border with standing figures and historiated initial ('D')., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Figures England

• Historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of David in the water, praying to God, with a full border including heads of Christ and four saints, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter fragments

bindings of Cotton's manuscripts.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. David in

• Decorated initial., Lives of saints, and an Irish translation of Innocent III's De contemptu mundi

brown. Spaces left for initials. Lives of saints, and an Irish translation of Innocent III's De contemptu mundi Inscription in English dated 1823 (f. 21v).Bought by the British Museum in 1832, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by

• Opening with full-page miniatures of the Temple implements., Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible) with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Opening with full-page miniatures of the Temple implements. Ruling and pricking are visible. 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, in colours and gold (ff. 3v-4). Masoretic lists in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 1v-3). ~Masorah~ in

• Full-page miniature of the Temple implements., Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible) with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Full-page miniature of the Temple implements. Ruling and pricking are visible. 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, in colours and gold (ff. 3v-4). Masoretic lists in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 1v-3). ~Masorah~ in micrographic design.

• Full-page miniature of some of the Temple implements with the menorah in the centre., Bible (the 'Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible) with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Full-page miniature of some of the Temple implements with the menorah in the centre. Ruling and pricking are visible. 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, in colours and gold (ff. 3v-4). Masoretic lists in architectural frames, in colours

• Decorated initials 'KL' with pen-flourishing for the month of May in the calendar., Register of St Mary's of Crich

calendar. Begins and ends with a calendar. The 1st calendar contains numerous English saints (Cuthbert, Dunstan, Wulfstan, Alban, Edmund, translation of Edward, etc.) (ff. 5-11v). Starts in the 24th year of the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-77) and includes

• Miniature with Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now worn by withering age, the meaning of which he was not at all able to make out. An Old Man, who was a native of the place, saw that he and his companions were uncertain about the picture. When asked by Cebes, he uncovered the meanings veiled in the figures and, taking up a pointer, he explained the whole thing in order (see Carlson 1993)., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

Cebes and an Old Man pointing to the Tabula Cebetis, facing a decorated initial with a full border, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's Tabula Cebetis. A foreigner, Cebes, enters the temple of Saturn. He sees a painted tablet, now

• Full-page miniature, upper register: the plague of frogs, lower register: the plague of lice., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Full-page miniature, upper register: the plague of boils, lower register: the plague of hail., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Keywords of a ~piyyut~ (liturgical poem) for Passover included into two vertical bands with penwork decoration., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Five decorated initial-word panels with gold letters and white vine motifs., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Full-page miniature, upper register: the plague of the locusts, lower register: the plague of darkness., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Fifteenth-century Italian white parchment binding, coloured and gold-tooled framing bands., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Fifteenth-century Italian white parchment binding, coloured and gold-tooled framing bands., Haggadah with commentary and liturgical poems for Passover (the 'Brother Haggadah')

son of R. Emanuel Hen the physician of the house of Shealtiel: inscribed with his name (f. 50v).Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (f. [i

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with king David playing the harp, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, followed by Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, adapted to the use of Ely

very rare Erkengota; the Office of the Dead is also altered to that of Ely.Unidentified owner, 16th century: inscription in English (f. 112).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl