• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

the nation 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. Text page London England, S. (London)

• Historiated initial 'B' of God in Majesty above four saints, including two Franciscans, measuring 90 x 95 mm (upper centre)., Cuttings from liturgical manuscripts

Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18;

• Scribal colophon: Ff. R. Hethfeld'., Liber de planctu naturae

115);Karolellus: Metrical version of Turpin's Chronicle (ff. 136-149v);Genealogical table (ff. 150-156v);Itinerary for a journey from London to Avignon and back (f. 157)Chess treatise (ff. 161-173). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. First letters of sentences highlighted in yellow. Ink drawing

• Bar border with hybrid creatures., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• Detail of a bear writing, in the bar border., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• null, Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

145v) (see discussion Sandler 1986; Rickert 1965 p. 149). The Lowther family, earls of Lonsdale, c.1800: its sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1937; bought by Maggs for the Duke of Rutland (see Millar 1954).The Duke of Rutland; acquired from

• Historiated initial 'U'(rbis Rome), of a building probably representing Rome, and a three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium. Heraldic arms in the lower border., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'N'(unc), at the beginning of book 8 of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memorabilium., Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other

• Decorated initial 'A'(biciamus), at the beginning of Guilelmus de Malliaco OP's Sermones de tempore; in the lower margin ex-libris 'Liber virginis gloriose. In Ebirbach hic e(st) Ma(r)ie. Ad Usus Abbatis Ebirbacen(sis)', written by Martin Rifflinck von Boppard, abbot of the monastery of Eberbach., Sermones de tempore (ff. 1-204), table of contents (ff. 204-205v)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.26’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with