• Detail of a miniature of Christ appearing before two Apostles., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

two Apostles. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full

• Detail of heraldry for the Lovell and Holand families, in the lower margin of the folio., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

lower margin of the folio. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated

• Miniature of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, with a full inhabited border., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

a full inhabited border. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials

• Detail of a miniature of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

in the Temple. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with

• Detail of a marginal painting of two men desecrating the host, in the lower margin of the folio., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

the lower margin of the folio. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or

• Detail of a miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin, with a marginal image of Mary holding the Christ child., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

image of Mary holding the Christ child. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures

• Detail of a miniature of the Ascension with Christ's feet disappearing upward out of the image, while the disciples stand below, and in the bas-de-page scene a bird of prey above a submerged duck with two hybrids, one playing a tamborine., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

bird of prey above a submerged duck with two hybrids, one playing a tamborine. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the

• Detail of a miniature of the Nativity of the Virgin., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

the Virgin. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full

• null, Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full inhabited borders, including heraldry, animals,

• null, Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full inhabited borders, including heraldry, animals,

• Miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem, with a full inhabited border., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

full inhabited border. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with

• Detail of a miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

into Jerusalem. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full

• Text and details of the genealogy of the Holland family., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

Holland family. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full

• Detail from the border at the lower edge of the page: angels with an icon of the Virgin and Child, a pheasant and a peacock., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

of the Virgin and Child, a pheasant and a peacock. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f.

• Detail of a miniature of a bishop carrying a monstrance in a Corpus Christi procession under an canopy carried by four clerics., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

procession under an canopy carried by four clerics. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller

• Detail of a marginal painting of two men desecrating the host, in the lower margin of the folio., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

the lower margin of the folio. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or

• Miniature of the enthroned Virgin with All Saints. To the left the kneeling figures are presumably Lord Lovell and his wife, although they do not have any heraldic emblems on their clothes to identify them with certainty; he holds a scroll which reads 'Pray for us, all saints of God'., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

certainty; he holds a scroll which reads 'Pray for us, all saints of God'. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the

• Detail from the lower right-hand border of the folio: an angel with a scroll., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

angel with a scroll. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials

• Detail from the border at the foot of the folio: a bird of prey hovering over a duck under water; on either side are two grotesques., Lectionary, imperfect (the 'Lovell Lectionary')

a duck under water; on either side are two grotesques. ff. 1-3 are paper leaves.The name John Siferwas occurs in the Sherborne Missal with 'Illuminator': see Scoft 1996 p. 62. Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f.

• null, Letters, extracts, scholia

Letters, extracts, scholia ? Cardinal Giovanni Salviati: probably no. 99 in his 1546 catalogue (see Cataldi Palau 1995 no. 77).Charles Townley (b. 1737, d. 1805), collector of antiquities, acquired in Rome in 1773 together with several other former