• Detail of Illuminated initial 'O'., Aeneid (index Aeneis), with Pseudo-Ovid (prologues)

Detail of Illuminated initial 'O'. Vertical catchwords.Ruled in crayon.ff. [i], [197] are parchment leaves pasted to marbled paper flyleaves.ff. [ii-iv], [195-196] are ruled parchment leaves.A large triangular section has been trimmed off the upper half of f. [iii]. Vestiges

• Detail of the colophon: 'Anno dominicae incarnationis M^o^CCCC^o^LXX^o^ & vii^a^ decembris opus hoc consumatum est: die autum veneris summo mane. Laus & gloria sit omnipotenti yhu xpo per infinita secula'., Lives

Detail of the colophon: 'Anno dominicae incarnationis M^o^CCCC^o^LXX^o^ & vii^a^ decembris opus hoc consumatum est: die autum veneris summo mane. Laus & gloria sit omnipotenti yhu xpo per infinita secula'. Probably the second of two volumes; the first volume

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with animal heads and figures at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, with litany and additional prayers and canticles

Xixti (6 August and 20 September); Afra (7 August); Willibrord (7 November).Ampersands.f. 8-8v contains the beginning of the Gospel of John (the Easter reading), with decoration consonant with the rest of the manuscript.Multi-coloured stitching in the margin of ff. 95,

• Decorated initials 'S'(hal) and 'S'(oules) in the fourth book of Sidrak and Bokkus, with inscriptions, possibly 'Thomas Walker Thomas Cowpland, John Bolton, Robert Spynk, Garry Jacson, James Loueden, Thomas Tomson, John Best, Richard Hilborn' in the margin below., Sidrak and Bokkus

(?) (f. 88v); 'I tell you plyn of John Hanum [. . . ] (f. 102v); 'William Wylkensone' (f. 111v); 'Thomas Cowpland, John Bolton, Robert Spynk, Garry Jacson, James Loueden, Thomas Tomson, John Best, Richard Hilborn (f. 172); Harry bramam'

• Decorated initial 'A'(s) with pen-flourishing., Poems, imperfect

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. Decorated initial John Multon John Multon John Lydgate London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of added marginal annotation (in the hand of Humfrey Wanley?)., Poems, imperfect

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. Added marginal annotation John Multon John Multon John Lydgate London England, S. E. (London)

• Miniature of John the Baptist with an angel, decorated initial 'D'(omine) and foliate borders including hybrid and human figures, at the beginning of the Hours of John the Baptist., Prayer book: Psalter of Jerome, Psalter of Augustine, Hours of the Dead, Hours of the Trinity, Hours of John the Baptist, Suffrages, Prayer to the Holy Face

Miniature of John the Baptist with an angel, decorated initial 'D'(omine) and foliate borders including hybrid and human figures, at the beginning of the Hours of John the Baptist. 7 full-page miniatures with large initials (3 lines) in blue on

• Detail of a miniature of John Lydgate kneeling at the shrine of Edmund, with an illuminated initial 'O', from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

Detail of a miniature of John Lydgate kneeling at the shrine of Edmund, with an illuminated initial 'O', from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the manuscript includes both pagination

• Miniature of John Lydgate kneeling at the shrine of Edmund, with an illuminated initial 'O', from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund., Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

Miniature of John Lydgate kneeling at the shrine of Edmund, with an illuminated initial 'O', from John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. Added table of contents (ff. 109-110). Note that the manuscript includes both pagination and foliation, with

• Detail of inscription., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of ink drawing., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of decorated initial., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of diagram., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of decorated initial., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of inscription., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Initial 'Q'(uia) at the beginning of the preface to the 'Musica Manualis'., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Decorated initial John Wylde John Wylde England

• Diagram of a hand with tones, in the prologue of Musica manualis., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Diagram of a Guidonian hand John Wylde John Wylde England

• Detail of decorated initial., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

(~formerly~ Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Detail John Wylde John Wylde England

• Decorated initial 'T'(his) at the beginning of a treatise in Middle English by Leonel Power on discant, which begins: 'This treatise is contrived upon the Gamme for them that will be singers or makers or teachers. For the first thing of all they must know how many chords of discant there be . . .' (spelling modernised)., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Decorated initial John Wylde John Wylde England

• On what was originally the final folio of the manuscript the signature 'Thomas tallys' above the same name in large capital letters., Musical miscellany, including the Musica manualis cum tonale; Thomas Walsingham's treatise on mensural music (ff. 97v–104v)

Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister: his book-plate (f. [ii]); purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. Ownership inscription John Wylde John Wylde England