• Flyleaf with pressmarks and contents list., Theological treatises

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page with rubric., Theological treatises

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'E' and display capitals., Theological treatises

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Initial 'F' with spiral and interlace decoration., Theological treatises

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• null, Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Zoomorphic initial 'G'(lorio) of a dragon., De Civitate Dei (index City of God), books 1-9

[Sce Marie](?) ...' (f. 155v, cf. f. 2). The title in Spanish occurs twice in 17th/18th?-century hands (f. 1).Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: catalogue 1826, no. 4360; bought by Philipps.Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and

• Drawing of a knight on horseback, with a lance, with an account of Macrobius and his work, and opposite, various ownership inscriptions and the book-plate of Dunn., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Drawing of outline drawing of Scipio Africanus and Masinissa, under a colonnade., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Decorated initial 'E'(cclesiastica) with penwork decoration., In Lucam

Mainwaring of Over Peover, Philip's grandfather.Sir Henry Mainwaring (b. 1726, d. 1797), 4th baronet.: his book-plate (inside upper cover).Joseph Lilly, London bookseller: purchased by the British Museum at the Lilly sale, 27 January 1873, lot 1375 for £14 using the

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with penwork decoration., In Lucam

Mainwaring of Over Peover, Philip's grandfather.Sir Henry Mainwaring (b. 1726, d. 1797), 4th baronet.: his book-plate (inside upper cover).Joseph Lilly, London bookseller: purchased by the British Museum at the Lilly sale, 27 January 1873, lot 1375 for £14 using the

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulto), with a guide letter in the margin, at the beginning of the prologue to Commentary on Lamentations addressed to Odilmannus Severus., Commentary on Lamentations

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6522;Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'A' (rma) with foliate and zoomorphic motifs., Aeneid (index Aeneis) with verse preface

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Decorated initial 'A'(stronomie) at the beginning of Herman of Carinthia Liber iudicum., Aretea, extract from De natura deorum (f. 95v); Liber iudicum (ff. 75-84), and other texts

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. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Illuminated initials 'P'(linius) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Vita Plini Secundi and letter 11., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Illuminated zoomorphic initial 'S'(equitur) made up of a hybrid creature with a bird or dragon's (?) body and a horned human head, at the beginning of book 10 of Pliny's Historia naturalis., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

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. 1; its book-plate with the

• Inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of an initial 'M'(atheus) of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, at the beginning of an 'argumentum' to Matthew., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'M', formed of two dragons., Gospels

~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697#), II, no. 6433.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, assessed in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Marginal decoration of two dragon-line animals surrounding the 'VII' quire numbering at the lower margin of the folio., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Diagram with decorated bands., De institutione musica; a miscellany of works on geometry, astronomy and mathematics

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6625.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and