• Historiated initial 'In' with intwined figures., fragments from the end of Joshua and the beginning of Judges; and the end of Judges to the beginning of Ruth

inscribed, 16th/17th century: 'Philemon Holland / John Barone(?), and 'RB'.f. 125: inscribed, 16th century: 'Thomas baulle'(?) and John Dean'.f. 137: inscribed, 16th century: 'James Collard'.f. 149: inscribed, 16th century: 'Statutes April 1581' and 'John Wallsall'.f. 175: inscribed, 17th century: 'Edmund(?)

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'H'(ere) with the arms of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III, at the beginning of book 3., De re militari (the Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode)

English translation of 'De re militari' of Flavius Vegetius Renatus made in 1408 for Thomas, Lord Berkeley and attributed to John Walton: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 79. The colophon is 'Here endeth the boke that clerkes / clepeth

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ere) with the royal arms of England supported by boars and surmounted by a crown, with a full border containing the griffin of Salisbury in the lower margin, at the beginning of book 1., De re militari (the Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode)

English translation of 'De re militari' of Flavius Vegetius Renatus made in 1408 for Thomas, Lord Berkeley and attributed to John Walton: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 79. The colophon is 'Here endeth the boke that clerkes / clepeth

• Illuminated initial 'H'(ere) with the arms of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III, with a full border, at the beginning of book 3., De re militari (the Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode)

English translation of 'De re militari' of Flavius Vegetius Renatus made in 1408 for Thomas, Lord Berkeley and attributed to John Walton: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 79. The colophon is 'Here endeth the boke that clerkes / clepeth

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'H'(ere) with the royal arms of England supported by boars and surmounted by a crown., De re militari (the Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode)

English translation of 'De re militari' of Flavius Vegetius Renatus made in 1408 for Thomas, Lord Berkeley and attributed to John Walton: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 79. The colophon is 'Here endeth the boke that clerkes / clepeth

• Detail of a miniature of the griffin of Salisbury in the lower margin of the folio, at the beginning of book 1., De re militari (the Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode)

English translation of 'De re militari' of Flavius Vegetius Renatus made in 1408 for Thomas, Lord Berkeley and attributed to John Walton: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 79. The colophon is 'Here endeth the boke that clerkes / clepeth

• Detail of John on Patmos, with an angel standing behind him, in the lower foliate margin, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin., Prayer book

of John on Patmos, with an angel standing behind him, in the lower foliate margin, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin. 6 full-page miniatures with full foliate borders including human figures and/or animals, in colours and gold,

• Miniature of the Annunciation, with a foliate border including John on Patmos, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin., Prayer book

with a foliate border including John on Patmos, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin. 6 full-page miniatures with full foliate borders including human figures and/or animals, in colours and gold, for major divisions (ff. 17v, 49v, 68v,

• Miniature of the Annunciation; historiated initial 'H'(ere) with Virgin and Child shown as the woman of the Apocalypse and foliate borders including John on Patmos and Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin; Spierinck's signature and date in the lower margin of f. 18., Prayer book

shown as the woman of the Apocalypse and foliate borders including John on Patmos and Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin; Spierinck's signature and date in the lower margin of f. 18.

• Miniature of the Annunciation, historiated initial 'H'(ere) with Virgin and Child shown as the woman of the Apocalypse and foliate borders including John on Patmos and Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin; Spierinck's signature and date in the lower margin of f. 18., Prayer book

shown as the woman of the Apocalypse and foliate borders including John on Patmos and Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin; Spierinck's signature and date in the lower margin of f. 18.

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that most of John Prise's religious manuscripts came from such houses.Sir John Prise (alias Sion ap Rhys, b. 1502 or 1503, d. 1555): 'John Prise: is Owner of this booke' (f. 2); cf. N. R. Ker, 'Sir John Prise', ~The

• null, Commentaria in Epistolas beati Pauli

that most of John Prise's religious manuscripts came from such houses.Sir John Prise (alias Sion ap Rhys, b. 1502 or 1503, d. 1555): 'John Prise: is Owner of this booke' (f. 2); cf. N. R. Ker, 'Sir John Prise', ~The

• 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)

• Full-page miniature of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John, with a full border including flowers, insects and a parody of tournament., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John,

• Detail of a miniature of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

of John sitting on the island of Patmos and writing the first words of his Gospel, ‘In principio’, on a scroll, with an angel, John’s symbol, indicating a Virgin and a Child on the sky, at the beginning of John.

• Illuminated initial 'F'(ive) with a full border with flowers, acanthus leaves branches, the royal arms of England and a gold portcullis with chains, the heraldic badge of the Beauforts., Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (imperfect)

England and a gold portcullis with chains, the heraldic badge of the Beauforts. Includes the prologue by John Purvey, imperfect; the text starts 'Five and twenti bookis', and ends 'descendant in infernum viventes'.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Some pointing hands in

• The arms of Thomas Wall, Windsor herald, in the right margin, the signature of Jo Starkey, in the upper margin, that of Sir Robert Cotton ('Robert Cotton Bruceaus') with the date 1610 in the lower margin., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Heraldry and signatures Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Decorated initial 'G'(od)., De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum

/ ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial Perhaps John Multon John Multon Thomas Hoccleve, Pseudo-Aristotle London England, S. E. (London)

• Text page., Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions

the Vulgate version. Gospels of Luke and John in the Vulgate and Erasmian (~Novum Instrumentum~) versions Copied by Pieter Meghen of 's-Hertogenbosch of the diocese of Liège (b. c.1466/1467, d. 1540) for John Colet (b. c.1456, d.1519), dean of St