• 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

• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII, enthroned with crowned sceptre, giving the manuscript to the monks of Westminster and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, with a full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

sceptre, giving the manuscript to the monks of Westminster and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, with a full bar border with the arms of England. The original chemise binding is of burgundy velvet (outside) and pinkish gold damask (inside). One

• Detail of an historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII, enthroned with crowned sceptre, giving the manuscript to the monks of Westminster and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

crowned sceptre, giving the manuscript to the monks of Westminster and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster. The original chemise binding is of burgundy velvet (outside) and pinkish gold damask (inside). One large tassel remains on the top left corner in

• Historiated initial 'O' of Romauld enthroned with a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits., Cutting from a Gradual

a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits. Italian cutting.The present initial is boxed with Add. 37472, ff. 1-2, 4-7. To see this initial in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• Text page with inscriptions., De corpore et sanguine Domini

fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: inscribed 'Liber Henrici Iacksoni Oxoniensis, Collegii Corporis Christi, mdc. Maii xxi liberati' (f. 145). John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer

• Historiated initial 'L'(egendas) of Guido de Castris as a Benedictine abbot with a book and crosier, with a partial border containing two fighting men, at the beginning of the prologue., Sanctilogium

or hybrids, at the beginning of books. Initials in red with purple pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Sanctilogium John Whethamstede, abbot of St. Albans (1420-1440 and 1452-1464), given by him to the Benedictine priory of St Amphibaldus in