• A historiated initial 'F' with foliate extension and medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing of Michael slaying the dragon., Cutting from a choir book

A historiated initial 'F' with foliate extension and medallion of pseudo-Oriental writing of Michael slaying the dragon. Italian cutting.The present cutting was formerly foliated by the number of the guard on which it is mounted, as f. 2. It

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Flourished initials., 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

• Decorated initials., 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

• Decorated 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

• Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'., Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary (ff. 199-208v)

Harley for 1100 guilders (see C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, ~The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726~, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976), I, 38 n. 5).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl