• Pen-flourished initials, Meditations on the Life of Christ

Pen-flourished initials Vertical catchwords. Alternating initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with violet pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red (now faded). Meditations on the Life of Christ Written in 1454 by Jacobus de Parma in Bologna for Frater

• Miniature of Christ in majesty, with the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, and the Resurrection of the Souls. Decorated initial in gold and colours, and full foliate border., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

with the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, and the Resurrection of the Souls. Decorated initial in gold and colours, and full foliate border. 8 roundels with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1-9v); 2

• Historiated initial 'Q'(ui) of the Resurrected Christ, with foliate extensions and gold besants., Various religious texts, including De imitatione Christi, capitula (ff. 1-4)

Historiated initial 'Q'(ui) of the Resurrected Christ, with foliate extensions and gold besants. Written by several scribes, one of whom wrote the lists of ~capitula~ (ff. 1-4) and the text on ff. 5-106v. Several others wrote ff. 107-199 (see

• White vine initial 'C'(aius) with foliate extension., Epistolae, imperfect

White vine initial 'C'(aius) with foliate extension. f. 1* is a former pastedown.5 large white vine initials have been excised (ff. 50, 71, 89, 110, 134). Vertical catchwords. Ruled in hardpoint.Wants the first section of text; starts at Epistolae

• Decorated initial 'C'(armina) with acanthus leaves and naturalistic flowers at the beginning of the text., De Consolatione Philosophiae (index Consolation of Philosophy)

Decorated initial 'C'(armina) with acanthus leaves and naturalistic flowers at the beginning of the text. According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this manuscript was made in Florence in the late

• Partial white vine border with the initial 'A'(ristoteles) and a space for a coat of arms in the lower margin., Ethica (index Ethics)

gold initials on coloured grounds (ff. 4, 4v, 14v, 21v, 33v, 44v, 56, 63v, 76, 88v, 101). Ethica (index Ethics) John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection,

• Initial 'A'(dam) with foliate and spray decoration., Latin Brut Chronicle of England, 2nd version

Initial 'A'(dam) with foliate and spray decoration. The manuscript contains the second version of the Latin Brut, which covers a period from Albina to the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, with a brief account of the

• Text page from the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 2-7., Four Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')

the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 2-7. 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

• White vine initial 'Q'(uintus) and partial border at the beginning of Cicero's De amicitia., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

White vine initial 'Q'(uintus) and partial border at the beginning of Cicero's De amicitia. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3

• White vine initial 'A'(nimadverti) at the beginning of Cicero's Paradoxa., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

White vine initial 'A'(nimadverti) at the beginning of Cicero's Paradoxa. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine initials, in

• Illuminated white vine initial 'O' at the beginning of Cicero's De senectute., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

Illuminated white vine initial 'O' at the beginning of Cicero's De senectute. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine

• Detail of illuminated initial., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

Detail of illuminated initial. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 31,

• Detail of lower border., De amicitia (ff. 2-30v), De senectute (ff. 31-58v), Paradoxa (ff. 59-72)

Detail of lower border. Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42 and 43 were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32 and 36. 3 white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 31,

• Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The

• Decorated initial 'I'(n the name of God)., Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire

Decorated initial 'I'(n the name of God). f. 1 is a parchment leaf with various pen trials and inscriptions. Two parchment fragments have been pasted onto this folio.f. 2 is inscribed, 'henricus octavus dei gracia' and bears the ownership

• Historiated initial 'P'(etrus) of Peter and Paul, in semi-grisaille, with partial foliate borders., Hours, Use of Rome ('Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')

Pierre Berès 5th sale, 3rd part, at Drouot Richeliue, Paris, 13 December 2006, now in the Morgan Library). We thank John Bidwell, Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, The Morgan Library & Museum, for this information.Thomas Shadford Walker (b.

• Detail of a miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of a miniature in colours and gold showing Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A.

• Detail of a white vine initial 'M'., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of a white vine initial 'M'. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Leaf signatures. Catchwords.Written by two scribes and decorated in different

• Detail of arms from the lower border of the folio., Historia naturalis (index Natural history)

Detail of arms from the lower border of the folio. The miniature was painted by Andrea di Firenze, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Leaf signatures. Catchwords.Written by two scribes and

• Text pages with marginal commentary and illuminated initial 'S'(ic), at the beginning of Book VI: 'Sic factur lacrimans, classique immittit habenas'., Aeneis (index Aeneid) , with a verse preface (ff. 1-201); Extract from Servius on Aeneis 6 (f. 202)

Text pages with marginal commentary and illuminated initial 'S'(ic), at the beginning of Book VI: 'Sic factur lacrimans, classique immittit habenas'. f. I is a paper flyleaf.Marginal commentary (ff. 87v to 97). 18 large initials in gold on red