• Closer detail from the lower margin of the folio of a cat playing a rebec., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

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. Cat playing a rebec Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a blacksmith at work, from the lower margin of the folio., Book of Hours (fragmentary)

(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. Blacksmith at work Milemete group London England, S. E. (London)

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Nicolai's Antidotarium, and explicit of Rhasis' opera, dated 1327., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

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

• Puzzle initials 'I'(n) and 'C'(reator), at the beginning of Rhasis's Liber Almansoris., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 5; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.21’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

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 'Q'(uoniam), at the beginning of Eberhardus Bethuniensis's Graecismus., Glossed Graecismus

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

• Puzzle initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Nicolai's Antidotarium., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initials 'I'(n) and 'C'(reator), at the beginning of Rhasis's Liber Almansoris., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Puzzle initial., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Decorated initials., Liber Almansoris (ff. 3-74) and other medical texts

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 3; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.7.18’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(enricus) enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn against a background of the royal colours., Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke

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. Imperial falcon London England, S. E. (probably London)

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

at Oxford (f. 150v).John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (f. 1).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

• Gold text, in Luke 3:33-4:45., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

abbey of Sainte Genevieve, Paris: inscription in a 17th-century hand 'Ex libris S. Genovefae Parisiensis' (f. 1).James Woodman, bookseller of London; purchased by Harley in 1725 (see Humphrey Wanley's diary, Lansdowne 772, f. 51v).Inscription 'A (?)/S' (f. 1).The Harley Collection,

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

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. 13; its book-plate with the