• 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

• On the flyleaf immediately preceding the start of the text is this inscription that the manuscript was written by Johannes Wylde, former precentor of Holy Cross, Waltham, followed by an anathema. Below this the same inscription was later copied out in black ink., 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

• Decorated initial 'Q' at the beging of a text that is attributed in the rubric to the monk Guido (Guy)., 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 illustrating the principle that a monochord (a single-stringed instrument) produces notes which are related in tone to the length of the chord., 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. Diagram John Wylde John Wylde England

• Initial 'V' with filigree penwork decoration., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiated initial 'V' of Michael weighing a soul., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiatd initial 'A' of the Presentation in the Temple., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiated initial 'S' of Saint Peter dressed as a pope and holding a book., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiated initial 'L' of Lucy holding eyes on a dish and a palm leaf., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiated initial 'B' of Longinus holding a spear., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Historiated initial 'D' with Simon and Andrew fishing on Lake Galilee., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Initial 'A' with filigree decoration., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

order Add. 22310. 7 large historiated initials in colours and gold, of Michael, the Presentation in the Temple, Peter, Lucy, John the Baptist, Longinus, and Simon and Andrew (ff. 2, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v), with foliate extension and

• Illuminated initial at the beginning of the first book of Guy de Guy de Chauliac's Surgery., Surgery, imperfect

in blue. Line-fillers in red. Illustration in brown (ff. 154, 164, 268v, 283, 283v). Surgery, imperfect Various inscriptions 'John Jonson' ; 'John Ayllyff (?); 'William Loibce (?) (f. 314v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: his

• Added drawing of a woman playing lute, at the end of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae., The Consolation of Philosophy (index De consolatione philosophiae)

in Anglicum translatus Anno domini millesimo cccc^mo^ x^o^ per capellanum Johannem' (f. 52v).Family of Leventhorpe, 15th-century: 'Leonard Leventhorpe', 'Thomas Leventhorpe', 'John Leventhorpe' (f. 53v).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: see his list of manuscripts in

• Marginal drawing in red ink of a fish and a stock in a tun, a rebus for the name 'Stoughton'., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Rebus for the name 'Stoughton' John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Decorated initial 'A'(t)., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Decorated intial John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Decorated initials at the knight's interruption of the Monk's Tale and the beginning of the of the Nun's Priest's Tale., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Decorated initials John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)

• Text page., The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2). Text page John Shirley John Shirley Geoffrey Chaucer Leicester England, Central (Leicester)