• Flourished initial 'A'(t), in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales., Canterbury Tales

(foliate) pen-flourishing. Canterbury Tales Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Flourished initial Geoffrey Chaucer England

• Full border and epigraphic initial with foliate decoration., Fables

Robert Henryson (c. 1439-1506) is known as the 'Scottish Chaucer'. This manuscript of his poems is a copy of Bassandyne's edition printed in Edinburgh in 1571 (see Bawcutt 2005). The drawing of the cock (f. 3v) and the representation of

• Puzzle initial 'A'(llas) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the book., The Consolation of Philosophy (index De consolatione philosophiae)

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Puzzle initial Boethius, translated by Geoffrey Chaucer England

• Marginal drawing in red ink of a fish and a stock in a tun, a rebus for the name 'Stoughton'., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Rebus for the name 'Stoughton' John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Decorated initial 'A'(t)., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Decorated intial John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Decorated initials at the knight's interruption of the Monk's Tale and the beginning of the of the Nun's Priest's Tale., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Decorated initials John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Text page., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Text page John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Decorated initial 'W'(hanne) at the beginning of the general prologue: 'Whanne that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote'., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Decorated initial John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)