• Illuminated historiated initial 'C' probably of Jerome giving this letter prologue to the bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, its recipients, and historiated initial 'P' of Solomon (depicted with a tonsure), holding a switch and teaching his son, Rehoboam, who reads from an open book, at the beginning of the prologue to and book of Proverbs., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• Illuminated historiated initial 'A' of an apocryphal story added to the end of Daniel, in which Daniel is challenged by the king of Babylon to prove that a dragon, worshipped by many Babylonians as a god, is not a god. Daniel feeds a poison to the dragon, killing it, proving that it was mortal., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• Illuminated historiated initial 'I' at the beginning of Zechariah, probably of a vision of two angels carrying an amphora containing a woman (Zechariah 5:9), with the woman interpreted as Christ (as indicated by his crossed halo)., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• Pen-flourished initial 'T'(he book), with a marginal extension, at the beginning of Matthew., New Testament, in the earlier Wycliffite version, with a table of lections according to the use of Salisbury

Pen-flourished initial 'T'(he book), with a marginal extension, at the beginning of Matthew. Includes a table of lections according to the use of Salisbury (ff. 4-13v) and the New Testament, in the earlier Wycliffite version (translation completed c. 1382).Catchwords

• Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 1. Illuminated by a French artist, another manuscript decorated by him is Vatican Library, Vat. Lat. 14936, the 'Hours of Catherine de Medici'. Includes the preface 'Psalterium

• Detail of a miniature of Niobe viewing the dead bodies of her husband, Amphion, and two of her children., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Medusa in a ship, with ensign representing Pegasus., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Sappho reading her poems to other authors., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Thamar painting a picture of Diana., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of 'Marcie qui fut de Varron' (i.e. Jaia of Cyzicus) with mirror and sculptor's tools., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of 'Dripetrue' (Drypetina), queen of Laodicea, waiting on her father Mithridates., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of the torture of Epicharis., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Arachne spinning., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Partial bar border with foliate motifs and a large initial 'D'(e) with the Beaufort badge of a portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Mithridates VI and his wife, Hypsicratea, on horseback., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Mithridates VI and his wife, Hypsicratea, on horseback., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Sempronia, wife of a Roman consul, with a book, desk, and musical instruments, being embraced by a man., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Sempronia, wife of a Roman consul, with a book, desk, and musical instruments, being embraced by a man., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Miniature of Medea seated, uttering a spell; Jason on horseback, and the slaughter either of Absyrtus or of one of Medea's children., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the

• Detail of a miniature of Medea seated, uttering a spell; Jason on horseback, and the slaughter either of Absyrtus or of one of Medea's children., Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation (index De claris mulieribus, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées)

portcullis and chains surmounted by a coronet (f. 1); 'possibly to be identified as the "greatte volume of velom named John Bokas lymned" owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort' (see Carley 2000).Inscribed in a late 15th-century hand, 'The booke of the