• Historiated initial 'Q'(uemadmodum) with a man holding a scroll and the deer, at the beginning of Psalm 42., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uid) with Doeg beheading the priests, at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) with the Temptation of Christ, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) with a knight impaling a soldier on his spear, at the beginning of Psalm 96., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) with the Trinity, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Historiated initial 'O' (intemerata) with John the Evangelist, at the beginning of a prayer to the Virgin and John the Evangelist., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Full-page miniature of Donatus writing his grammar, his ink-pot held by a monk labelled 'Heinre'(?), with two short poems in hexameters in the upper left and upper right corners: the first poem compares the breaking open of fruits, nuts, wine-jars and bees' cells, which in each case reveals the more valuable contents inside, to the similar discovery of knowledge, once the real meaning is found 'beneath' the literal meaning; the second poem is a simple tribute to the scribe of the manuscript, the painter of Donatus' portrait and the author of the manuscript; at the end of Sedulius Scotus's Expositio super primam edicionem Donati grammatici., Expositio super primam edicionem Donati grammatici

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

• Initial 'R'(ebus) with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, at the beginning of a prologue in verse., Miscellany of verses

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

• Puzzle initial 'R'(everentissimo) with penwork decoration and decorated extensions, at the beginning of Thomas Becket's Epistolae., Collectio epistolarum S. Thomae Cantuariensis

politician. 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 / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the

• Iluminated initial 'I'(n) decorated with foliate and geometric patterns, and a full border with roundels in which archers shoot at 'white lions' or dogs, and in a half-circle on the right border, a seated king with a sword., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

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 'Channel-style' foliate initial 'H' with naked men 'white lions' or dogs, and animal head terminations., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

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 initial 'I'(n), in the form of a hybrid creature, with a man's head and body and an winged and serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

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

• Initial 'F'(uit) and table of chapters at the beginning of a collection of the miracles of the Virgin., Theological miscellany, including 31 miracles of the Virgin (ff. 60-73), various sermons, a commentary on the Gospels read throughout the year (f. 43)

~The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians~, ed. by David N. Bell, Corpus of British Medieva Library Catalogues, 3 (London: British Library, 1992), p. 133.Inscribed, 15th century, 'Iste liber p(er)tinet Henryco (?) Worblay (?) (f. 1v, erased).? Thomas Howard

• Initial 'Q'(uare) at the beginning of the text, with a 13-century inscription 'Liber Sancte Marie Rievaull.' and listing of the contents, on the facing folio., Theological miscellany, including 31 miracles of the Virgin (ff. 60-73), various sermons, a commentary on the Gospels read throughout the year (f. 43)

~The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians~, ed. by David N. Bell, Corpus of British Medieva Library Catalogues, 3 (London: British Library, 1992), p. 133.Inscribed, 15th century, 'Iste liber p(er)tinet Henryco (?) Worblay (?) (f. 1v, erased).? Thomas Howard

• Initials 'I' and the ownership inscription 'Liber Sancte Marie de Bella Landa' at the beginning of Peter Comestor's Historiae Scholasticae., Historia scholastica, and Prologus epistolaris ad Guillelmum Campanensem

and politician.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 / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v; its book-plate with the

• Miniature of the Noli me tangere and the Supper at Emmaeus., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Miniature of the Death of Judas and the Flagellation of Christ, as part of a cycle of Christological images., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

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

• Calendar page for March, including the translation of Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, and Tibba (6 March), Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 7).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Puzzle initials 'V'(erba), 'Q'(uod), and 'S'(acratissimus) with foliate infill., Theological miscellany, including Vita Sancti Edwardi confessoris; Vita Sancti Malachiae, Arnold of Bonneval's Vita Bernardi abbatis (ff. 72-89)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover, with the pencil inscription: 'XV.4.11).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'S'(emper) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of Malachy., Theological miscellany, including Vita Sancti Edwardi confessoris; Vita Sancti Malachiae, Arnold of Bonneval's Vita Bernardi abbatis (ff. 72-89)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover, with the pencil inscription: 'XV.4.11).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with