• Text page at the end of the prologue to John., Four Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')

end of the prologue to John. This is source Z in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method

• Text page from John., Four Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')

page from John. This is source Z in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method of Victor of

• Puzzle initial 'A'(lle) and partial border., Devotional treatises and sermons, including Memoriale credencium (ff. 1-69), a treatise on the five senses (ff. 106v-127), a sermon by Thomas Wymyldon (ff. 140-153), a treatise on the visitation of the sick (ff. 156-160v), and a treatise on 'wedded men, wives, and their children' (ff. 160v-166v)

£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 John Wycliffe, Thomas Wymyldon, and others England

• Miniature of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin, of the Virgin Mary's entombment and the passing of her soul to Christ, surrounded by a crowd of apostles and angels, and her Assumption to heaven in a mandorla, within a mosaic-like frame., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphoner, antiphonal)

Santa Maria degli Angeli in 1798; his sale 11 May 1838, lot 181; purchased by Lloyd for £4 4s. Reverend John Fuller Russell (b. 1813, d. 1884), ecclesiastical historian: his sale 26 June 1885, lot 124.George Salting (b. 1835, d.

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) of an enthroned king, perhaps Richard II, at the beginning of the text., Polychronicon

Historiated initial 'P'(ost) of an enthroned king, perhaps Richard II, at the beginning of the text. Ranulph Higden (b. c. 1299, d. 1364), was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of St. Werburg, Chester. His 'Polychronicon' is a universal

• Historiated initial 'U'(t) with the author Petrus Isolellae in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a full border; female figure in the lower margin and kneeling man in the outer margin., Summa grammaticae (index De arte grammatica)

Historiated initial 'U'(t) with the author Petrus Isolellae in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a full border; female figure in the lower margin and kneeling man in the outer margin. Catchwords written horizontally. Large

• Text page with coloured initial., Theological miscellany, including Gennadius's 'De vera fide' (ff. 1-17) and Explanation of the epitaph of Constantine the Great (ff. 60v-61v), Pseudo-Methodius's 'Apocalypsis' (ff. 42-45v), and Leo V's 'Oracula' (f. 57)

Text page with coloured initial. A full table of contents in ~Summary Catalogue~ 1999. Initials with foliate decoration in silver and titles in dark red. Line-fillers and small initial in red. Theological miscellany, including Gennadius's 'De vera fide' (ff.

• Initials with penwork decoration., Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, with commentary

with pen-flourishing in red, some with leaf decoration. Verse and sentence initials touched in red. Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, with commentary John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain to the Levant Company at Constantinople, 1670-1676, and later Master of Christ's College,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) of an enthroned king., Polychronicon

Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) of an enthroned king. Ranulph Higden (b. c. 1299, d. 1364), was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of St. Werburg, Chester. His 'Polychronicon' is a universal history, based on earlier writers, but

• Historiated initial 'C'(armina) depicting a layman pointing to a book he is holding (presumably the author, Boethius), and arms of the de Lando family of Verona in the lower margin., De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,

• Flourished initials 'B'(ella) and 'D'(ixerat) in Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae., De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,

• null, Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

also attributed Additional 16983 and Burney 292 to the same scribe (unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A

• null, Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

also attributed Additional 16983 and Burney 292 to the same scribe (unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A

• null, Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

also attributed Additional 16983 and Burney 292 to the same scribe (unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A

• null, Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

also attributed Additional 16983 and Burney 292 to the same scribe (unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); see also John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A

• Detail of arms., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

20, and 22; A. C. de la Mare also attributed Additional 16983, and Burney 292 to the same scribe; cf. John W. Bradley, ~A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A

• null, De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,

• null, De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,

• null, De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,

• null, De consolatione philosophiae

privatae~ (Utini:Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99, which included this text. Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2).? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128,