• Detail of a miniature of sheep., Bestiary

Detail of a miniature of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,

• Miniature of the sermon of a hypocritical priest, who preaches to six seated figures while a demon tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,

• Detail of a miniature of the sermon of a hypocritical priest, who preaches to six seated figures while a demon tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,

• Full white vine border, inhabited by birds, with a roundel of Virgil, another of shepherds minding their sheep, a large initial 'T'(itire), and, in the lower margin, a wreath, intended for arms, supported by two putti., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-35); Georgica (index Georgics) (ff. 35-55v); Aeneis (index Aeneid) (ff. 55v-239v)

by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian,

• Detail of a miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

Donatian and Rogatian in red (24th May; venerated in Nantes and in the diocese of Meaux), and Fara (7th December, venerated in Faremoutier in Brie), but it includes as well both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the

• Miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter

queen of England and Ireland (1553-1558): inscribed, 'Gode saue the most vertuous and no/bull Quene Marys gras, / and send her to injoye the crou[n]ne / of Eynglande longe tyme and spas / her enimys to confunde, and / hutterly