• Historiated initial 'M'(emoriam) with the archangel Michael spearing and standing on a dragon, at the beginning of a sermon for the dedication of the church of the archangel Michael., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'I'(eronimus) with a naked man, and an archer shooting at a dog? or other quadruped, at the beginning of the life of Jerome., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uadam) with Jerome holding a closed book and gesturing to a lion who holds up its paw, with a dragon making up part of the initial, at the beginning of Jerome's miracle of the lion., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historaited initial 'I'(gitur) at the beginning of the passion of Piaton of Benevento, a third century evangelist to northern France and Belgium, with a seated monk holding a book and gesturing, probably Piaton, at the top of the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'B'(ono) at the beginning of the life of Bavo or Bavon, an early 7th-century saint, with a monk giving instructions to a boy carrying a bag, and a monk carrying a large bundle in front of building below, possibly Bavon giving away his possessions to build an abbey, and dragons or serpents entwined in the stem of the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Anthropomorphic initial ''L'(icit), made up of three men, one reclining, and another standing on the shoulders of a third and holding a large shield or circular object decorated with a flower, at the beginning of Bavo's miracles., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of a man beating a donkey with a whip and a man beating a bear with a stick, at the beginning of the passion of Leodegar., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) with Denis seated holding a staff and a book, with a naked man and a hybrid creature with a human body, horns, and goat's feet, and dragons or serpents and an animal head entwined in the form of the letter, at the beginning of the passion of Denis, Rusticus and Eleutherius. In the margin are drawings of a bust and an animal similar to those in the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the life of Severinus, probably the 5th-century bishop of Bordeaux and Cologne, with an emeshed lion and dragon., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the passion of the 3rd-century brothers, Crispin and Crispinian, with one brother already beheaded, the executioner holding the head of the other in his left hand and an upraised sword in his right, and the hand of God above., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the passion of Folian, a seventh-century Irish missionary to the Franks and founder of a monastery at Fosses. The upper part of the initial shows him travelling on horseback with a companion, and the lower, his martyrdom by a swordsman., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'T'(empore) at the beginning of the passion of Caesarius. In the centre at the top of the letter, Caesarius watches Lucian (or Julian), shown as a knight, who rides to the top of a mountain and throws himself from its summit as a human sacrifice in honour of Apollo (here only the horse is shown falling). To the left is a roundel of a Lucian offering a sacrifice of an animal, and to the right, spectators watching the suicide. In the panel below, Caesarius is before a seated priest of Apollo being judged for sorcery, and in the lower roundel Caesarius has been sewn into a sack and is being thrown into the sea from a boat., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of the passion of Eustace, with a seated monk eating pies being held in a large bowl by a devil., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'T'(empo) made up of a man with outstretched arms holding two harps and blowing on a recorder, with a man playing a viol below, at the beginning of the passion of Claudius, Nicostratus, Symphorian, Castorius, and Simplicius, who were martyred under Emperor Diocletian in the late 3rd or early 4th century., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• 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

• Table with arcades, and illuminated initial 'L'(una) in 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

• Historiated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the passion of Demetrius showing his martyrdom, ordered by the Emperor Maximianus, who raises his hand in a speaking gesture. Above him, Demetrius is arrested, while in the centre Lyaeus the gladiator is being killed by Nestor, a volunteer from the stands. Below, Demetrius, lying captive, is killed by a spear, his death ordered by Maximianus as a result of the gladiator's loss., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'C'(onsule) at the beginning of the passion of Tharacus, Probus and Andronicus, three early Christian martyrs who died in the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century, each holding the palms of martyrdom., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the life of Venantius Fortunatus, a 6th-century abbot and bishop of Poiters., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Anthropomorphic initial 'T'(emporibus) at the beginning of the passion of Theodoret the priest of Antioch, made up of a man holding snakes, standing on a devil., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIV.6.15', inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with