• Preface and beginning of Luke's gospel with decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) enclosing a flower., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of 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. Henry VII England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of 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. Henry VII England, S. E. (London)

• Large initials, some with zoomorphic pen-flourishing, and a marginal drawing of a dog? and a human half-bust figure, in the Sermones de quadragesima., Sermones de quadragesima (imperfect)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Illuminated headpiece and initial 'Pi', both with foliate decoration at the beginning of Gregory of Nazianzus's sermon Or. 39., Sermons

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Marginal image of a fish., Gospel lectionary

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Illuminated headpiece with a foliate pattern and decorated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula (index New Testament, Bible)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Marginal drawing of a knight on horseback holding a sword., In Hexaemeron, imperfect

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XV.5.6').Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Diagrams in Pseudo-Hucbaldus's De Institutione Musica., Glossed De Institutione Musica (ff. 6v-62); Scolica Enchiriadis (ff. 63v-87v); Tonary (ff. 92-98)

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel

• Diagrams in Boethius's Scolica Enchiriadis., Glossed De Institutione Musica (ff. 6v-62); Scolica Enchiriadis (ff. 63v-87v); Tonary (ff. 92-98)

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, f. i).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel

• Decorated interlace initial 'I'(n) with two bird heads, at the beginning of the Gesta regum Francorum., Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIII:9.1, f .[iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Initial 'I'(ncipit), with a change of script, and possibly scribe., Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIII:9.1, f .[iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of the book Ezra., Job and Ezra, with prologues

Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis., f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.3’, 3rd flyleaf at the beginning).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Heading in display capitals, and the first word 'Vir' in colours, at the beginning of the book of Job., Job and Ezra, with prologues

Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis., f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.3.3’, 3rd flyleaf at the beginning).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Decorated interlace initial 'I'(n) with two bird heads, at the beginning of the Gesta regum Francorum., Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIII:9.1, f .[iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(ncipit)., Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories

1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIII:9.1, f .[iii]).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Illuminated headpiece and initial 'Pi', both with foliate decoration at the beginning of Gregory of Nazianzus's sermon Or. 41., Sermons

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of decorated braided headpiece., Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect, preceded by a table of contents

Porte, from the year 1621 to 1628 inclusive~ (London: Samuel Richardson, 1740), p. 500).Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. /

• Detail of marginal drawing of a man., Domesday book (ends imperfectly)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(ui) at the beginning of Hermann of Reichenau's Computus., Various lunar and astronomical tables and tracts, including Computus, a calendar and diagrams

Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate with the pencil inscription ‘XIII.9.34’ (inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with