• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with a hybrid creature, and 'B'(ritannia) with hybrid creatures biting, at the beginning of the prologue to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, with the signature of William Herbert in the upper margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)(ff. 1-80v79), and other texts, including Annals from the Nativity to 1294 (ff. 83v-104v)

note in the hand of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, dated 19 March 1828 (f. iv verso). Robert Triphook, London bookseller, bought by Page-Turner: above cited note.Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart.: his sale, 18 March 1828, bought by

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' of Arthur drawing the sword from the stone., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

and Ulrich 1886). His bookplate and number inside the front cover and in his catalogue: ~The Huth Library~, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III. PP. 954-57.Bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see ~Catalogue of the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' with image of King Arthur setting infants adrift in a boat., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

and Ulrich 1886). His bookplate and number inside the front cover and in his catalogue: ~The Huth Library~, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III. PP. 954-57.Bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see ~Catalogue of the

• Illuminated initial 'D'(omine) at the beginning of Psalm 8., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the fool and a demon, and a three-sided border including birds and a rabbit., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Illuminated initial 'D'(eus) with a bird and a squirrel., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with David playing a harp, and David fighting Goliath, and a three-sided border with animals and grotesques., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Miniature in four compartments: the Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem [Palm Sunday], Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and the Last Supper., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Text-page with flourished initials 'S'(alehadins) and 'I'(l)., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Text-page with flourished initials 'T'(andis) and 'I'(usqua)., Histoire d'Outremer, continued to 1232

June 5th / 1896'; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 25, bought by Pickering and Chatto for £400.Pickering and Chatto, London booksellers: in their catalogue, 1923, no. 3531, for £1,200 (two unfoliated pages from this catalogue inserted at the beginning

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the fool and a demon., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of two birds and an owl from the lower margin of the folio., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'D'(eus) with a bird and a squirrel., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing a harp, and David fighting Goliath., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an archer aiming at a hybrid grotesque, from the right margin of the folio., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of a hound chasing a rabbit in the lower border of the folio., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of a miniature in four compartments: the Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem [Palm Sunday], Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and the Last Supper., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of the upper section of the miniature, with scenes of the Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem [Palm Sunday]., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of the lower section of the miniature, with scenes of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and the Last Supper., Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Puzzle initial ''R'(everendo) and smaller decorated initials, at the beginning of Guillelmus Duranti's Repertorium juris canonici. ., Legal miscellany, including Summa decreti, Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales, Repertorium juris canonici

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. 1); its book-plate with the