• Decorated intial., Travels of Sir John Mandeville (external link no longer available)

in plain red or blue, some with reserved designs. Travels of Sir John Mandeville ? The Benedictine Abbey of St Albans (see below).? Willyam Caxton, by 1490 (see below).? Richard Tottyl, London, by 1579 (see below).Hugh Tuthill, descendant of Tottyl

• Text page., Travels of Sir John Mandeville (external link no longer available)

in plain red or blue, some with reserved designs. Travels of Sir John Mandeville ? The Benedictine Abbey of St Albans (see below).? Willyam Caxton, by 1490 (see below).? Richard Tottyl, London, by 1579 (see below).Hugh Tuthill, descendant of Tottyl

• Three-sided white vine border inhabited by birds with a large white vine initial 'I'(n) and a wreath designed for a coat of arms in the lower margin., Ab urbe condita (the Third Decade) (external link no longer available)

in colours and gold (ff. 24, 48v, 69, 89v, 109v, 131v, 156, 179, 196). Ab urbe condita (the Third Decade) John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 13 September 1722 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Full-page frontispiece of Homer seated in a landscape, encircled by a laurel wreath with eight medallions of the muses and, in the four corners, subsidiary medallions of four bearded figures holding books., Narratio de gente et vita Homeri, Verses on Homer, Iliad (ff. 16-239) (external link no longer available)

Full-page frontispiece of Homer seated in a landscape, encircled by a laurel wreath with eight medallions of the muses and, in the four corners, subsidiary medallions of four bearded figures holding books. f. 14 is a half sheet.f. 193

• Full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds and putti, with a title piece flanked by putti, a large white vine initial 'M' and, in the lower margin, a medallion designed for arms., Narratio de gente et vita Homeri, Verses on Homer, Iliad (ff. 16-239) (external link no longer available)

Full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds and putti, with a title piece flanked by putti, a large white vine initial 'M' and, in the lower margin, a medallion designed for arms. f. 14 is

• White vine initial 'M'(undum)., Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (external link no longer available)

White vine initial 'M'(undum). There is a ruled leaf after f. 175.Ruled in plummet; horizontal catchwords. Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by

• Full border with Cupid in a large historiated initial 'V'(oi), medallions of leopard heads, and, in the lower margin, two crowned leopards salient ~or~ supporting a medallion with the arms of the Mussolini family of Treviso., Table of first lines (ff. 2-8v); Rime (ff. 12-138v); Trionfi (index Triumphs) (ff. 140-171) (external link no longer available)

Full border with Cupid in a large historiated initial 'V'(oi), medallions of leopard heads, and, in the lower margin, two crowned leopards salient ~or~ supporting a medallion with the arms of the Mussolini family of Treviso. Horizontal catchwords; no

• Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a white vine initial 'L'(ibros)., Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (external link no longer available)

Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a white vine initial 'L'(ibros). There is a ruled leaf after f. 175.Ruled in

• Detail of a folio: Incipit: 'ramento capitur cum cetera…' Explicit: 'quinquagenas libras lundens cumi', Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (external link no longer available)

Detail of a folio: Incipit: 'ramento capitur cum cetera…' Explicit: 'quinquagenas libras lundens cumi' There is a ruled leaf after f. 175.Ruled in plummet; horizontal catchwords. Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the

• Puzzle initial 'P'(romissiones) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of book 17 in Augustine's De civitate dei. A 13th-century hand has corrected the capitula list in the lower margin., De Civitate Dei (index City of God)(ff. 3-177v); De trinitate (ff. 179-244v) (external link no longer available)

Puzzle initial 'P'(romissiones) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of book 17 in Augustine's De civitate dei. A 13th-century hand has corrected the capitula list in the lower margin. ff. 1-[2a] are medieval parchment flyleaves.Text divided into sections designated by

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with animal heads and figures at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, with litany and additional prayers and canticles (external link no longer available)

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 initial 'A'(lvredus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of book 6., Polychronicon (to the 25th year in the reign of Henry VI, i.e. 1445), including 2 extracts from the Latin Brut Chronicle of England (ff. 227-228v) (imperfect) (external link no longer available)

Includes a genealogy and chronological diagrams at the end including a diagram (ff. 235v-236) listing the archbishops of Canterbury to John Stafford (archbishop from 1443, d. 1452) and the popes to Pius II (elected 1458, d. 1464) (ff. 229v-236).Added index

• Decorated initial 'G'(od) at the beginning of John Lydgate's Book of Governance of Kings and Princes., Sir John Paston's 'Grete Booke', a miscellany, including the challenge of an Auncestre of Therle of Warrewik (ff. 16-17v); the tournament between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy (ff. 18-22v; 29v-43) (external link no longer available)

blue or red. Sir John Paston's 'Grete Booke', a miscellany, including the challenge of an Auncestre of Therle of Warrewik (ff. 16-17v); the tournament between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy (ff. 18-22v; 29v-43) Sir John Paston (II) (b.

• Decorated initial 'V'(ide) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the list of capitula to Augustine's De civitate dei (index City of God)., List of capitula to Augustine's De civitate dei (index City of God) (external link no longer available)

red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Capitals marked in yellow. List of capitula to Augustine's De civitate dei (index City of God) John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 17 June 1721 (see ~Diary~ 1966; Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• null, Commentary on the Psalms (imperfect, starting in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 9 and ending in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 146) (external link no longer available)

Reynolds' , f. 116, and 'Anthony Harris of Cheston in the county of Suff', f. 92v, in the same hand). John Reynolds, 17th century: (inscription, f. 282v). ? Price: 'ei/r', f. i verso. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.

• null, Commentary on the Psalms (imperfect, starting in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 9 and ending in the middle of the commentary on Psalm 146) (external link no longer available)

Reynolds' , f. 116, and 'Anthony Harris of Cheston in the county of Suff', f. 92v, in the same hand). John Reynolds, 17th century: (inscription, f. 282v). ? Price: 'ei/r', f. i verso. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.

• Historiated initial 'G'(loriosissimam) with Augustine as a bishop, with stigmata, combined with a three-sided white vine border including the coats of arms of the Hungarian humanists Janus Vitez (index John Vitez) and Petrus Garazda (index Peter Garazda), medallions with saints (probably the Fathers of the Church: three of them are bishops and the fourth one is probably Peter), a wolf and hen, winged putti, a dog, birds and flowers., De Civitate Dei (index City of God) (external link no longer available)

white vine border including the coats of arms of the Hungarian humanists Janus Vitez (index John Vitez) and Petrus Garazda (index Peter Garazda), medallions with saints (probably the Fathers of the Church: three of them are bishops and the fourth

• Miniature of the presentation of the volume, with border with heraldic decoration., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) (external link no longer available)

d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) Philippe de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of

• Miniature of a queen in bed with a dragon, the king looking on from a window., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) (external link no longer available)

d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) Philippe de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of

• Miniature of a battle, and decorated initial and border., History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) (external link no longer available)

d'Alexandre) (index De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni; Historia Alexandri Magni) Philippe de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of