• Text page with marginal drawings of a man and a plant., Liber medicinarum

87-91v);Treatise on uroscopy in Middle English (ff. 93-94v);Thomas Awkbarow, 96 culinary recipes in Middle English (ff. 95v-103);A text relating to John Lydgate, Dietary, in Middle English verse (ff. 103-104). Half- and full-page pen drawings of surgical instruments and procedures, highlighted

• Marginal drawing of a gimlet., Liber medicinarum

87-91v);Treatise on uroscopy in Middle English (ff. 93-94v);Thomas Awkbarow, 96 culinary recipes in Middle English (ff. 95v-103);A text relating to John Lydgate, Dietary, in Middle English verse (ff. 103-104). Half- and full-page pen drawings of surgical instruments and procedures, highlighted

• Text page with marginal drawings., Liber medicinarum

87-91v);Treatise on uroscopy in Middle English (ff. 93-94v);Thomas Awkbarow, 96 culinary recipes in Middle English (ff. 95v-103);A text relating to John Lydgate, Dietary, in Middle English verse (ff. 103-104). Half- and full-page pen drawings of surgical instruments and procedures, highlighted

• Marginal drawing of an owl ('bubo' in Latin), to mark a passage relating to a cancerous swelling, also known as 'bubo' in Latin., Liber medicinarum

87-91v);Treatise on uroscopy in Middle English (ff. 93-94v);Thomas Awkbarow, 96 culinary recipes in Middle English (ff. 95v-103);A text relating to John Lydgate, Dietary, in Middle English verse (ff. 103-104). Half- and full-page pen drawings of surgical instruments and procedures, highlighted

• Evangelist portrait of Mark with his symbol., Gospels

Cardinal Gonazaga: see Alexander. Alphabetical quire signatures. 3 large miniatures in colours and gold of Mark, Luke, and John (ff. 87v, 142v, 232v). Small miniatures in colours and gold in rectangular frames at the beginning of Gospels (ff. 4, 88,

• Evangelist portrait of Luke with his symbol., Gospels

Cardinal Gonazaga: see Alexander. Alphabetical quire signatures. 3 large miniatures in colours and gold of Mark, Luke, and John (ff. 87v, 142v, 232v). Small miniatures in colours and gold in rectangular frames at the beginning of Gospels (ff. 4, 88,

• Headpiece with Mary with raised hands flanked by angels, and a marginal figure of Solomon and David, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels

1477 for Cardinal Gonazaga: see Alexander. Alphabetical quire signatures. 3 large miniatures in colours and gold of Mark, Luke, and John (ff. 87v, 142v, 232v). Small miniatures in colours and gold in rectangular frames at the beginning of Gospels (ff.

• Headpiece and decorated initial 'B' at the beginning of Matthew., Four Gospels with canon tables and Eusebius of Caesarea's letter to Carpianus, imperfect

Prayers added by the presbyter George, 13th century (ff. 91v, 148v, 241v). Daniel, bishop of Proconnesus: presented by him to John Covel on 11 August 1674 (f. 6).John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople

• Drawing and diagram in ink., 'Pneumatica' (index Pnematics) (ff. 3-50) and 'De automatis' (index Automata) (ff. 50v-69)

the margin. Decorated initials in brown. 'Pneumatica' (index Pnematics) (ff. 3-50) and 'De automatis' (index Automata) (ff. 50v-69) Written by John Mauromates (index Ioannes Mauromates) (fl. 1541-1565; see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981).Nicolas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de

• Page painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

Page painted red with streaming blood. The most remarkable example of a book of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It

• Page painted red with streaming blood., Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

Page painted red with streaming blood. The most remarkable example of a book of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It

• Two decorated initials 'I'(nter) at the beginning of Isidore of Seville's 'De differentiis'., Homilies; De differentiis; De natura rerum; De liber arbitrio

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initials John Chrysostom (index Johannes Chrysostomus); Isidore of Seville; Bede the Venerable; Anselm of Canterbury England or France

• Pen-flourished initial 'P'(ater)., Sermons on Matthew, imperfect at the beginning and at the end (index Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum)

been erased; only the decorated initials and partial border remain.The text was once attributed to John Chrysostom by Pope Nicholas I in the ninth century, but its authorship is now assigned to an Arian Christian influenced by the concepts of

• Initial with added penwork decoration., Medical Compendium, imperfect

(b. 1647, d. 1708), clergyman and antiquary: bought with other manuscripts from his collection by Edward Harley from Batteley's nephew John on 5 Nov. 1723 (Wright and Wright 1966, Wright 1972). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661,

• 'Champ' initials with foliate spray decoration extending into the margin., Fragment from a Lectionary (?)

of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled for historical purposes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). A number of drawings and printed book fragments were transferred from the volume to

• Decorated initial 'R'(everendissimo) with reserved designs and pen-flourishing at the beginning of Ludolfus de Suchem's Liber de terra sancta., Liber de terra sancta (ff. 1-73); Itinerarium (index Travels) (ff. 74-143v)

de terra sancta. Leaf signatures.Catchwords.The Liber de terra sancta ends with a capitula list (ff. 69-73) while John Mandeville's begins with it (f. 74r-v). 'Incipit itinerarius magistri Johannis de Mandevelt... ' (f. 74).Watermark visible on f. [144]. Large initials in

• Text page with drawing of man spearing a dragon added to the margin., Miscellany of patristic texts, imperfect, including Marcus Eremita's Opuscula III, X and IV (ff. 1-6v, 6v-15v, 16-29), Diadochus's 'Capita centum de perfectione spirituali' (ff. 29-59), John's 'Capita hortatoria ad monachos in India' (ff. 59v-69) and 'Capita theologica et gnostica' (ff. 69-81v), and Maximus's 'Capita de caritate' (ff. 82-117v)

82-117v) Pen and pencil drawings added to the margins, 17th-century ? (ff. 2, 23v, 24, 25, 78, 91v, 92, 97v). John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company in Constantinople, 1670-1676, and later Master of Christ's College,

• Initial with penwork decoration 'P'(retor)., Speculum monachorum

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (see Wright).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Marginal sketch of the city of Jerusalem., Speculum monachorum

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (see Wright).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Coloured decorated headpiece, title in display capitals, and decorated initial 'A'., Speeches, including 'Olynthiaca' 1-3 (ff. 1-15) and 'Philippica' 1, 2, 3-4 (ff. 15v-23, 27v-32v, 48v-70)

in light brown. Speeches, including 'Olynthiaca' 1-3 (ff. 1-15) and 'Philippica' 1, 2, 3-4 (ff. 15v-23, 27v-32v, 48v-70) Written by John Rhosos of Crete (d. 1498; ff. 1-73v, 75) ) and Michael Lygizos (ff. 75-184, 185-304v, marginal notes on ff.