• Illuminated initial 'H'(ec) and ivy-leaf borders incorporating a dragon, at the beginning of Bertrand de la Tour's Sermones Quadragesimales., Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his

• Decorated initial 'P'(ascales) at the beginning of Sedulius's Carmen paschale, with simple red decoration in the bowl of the letter., 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

• Decorated initials., Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini, prefatory poem, and poema coniugis ad uxorem, Poems (ff. 1; 22-23v)

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

• Decorated iInitial 'Q'(uoniam) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of the prologue to Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

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), pp. 100, 269).A 'Marquiss of Donegall': book-plate withthis crest and coronet on a mantle (f.

• Puzzle initial 'N'(eronem) at the beginning of Book 3 of Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

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), pp. 100, 269).A 'Marquiss of Donegall': book-plate withthis crest and coronet on a mantle (f.

• Historiated initial 'A' of a deacon, probably an Olivetian, sprinkling holy water., Cutting from a choir book

artist are: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 21, 60 and 69; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 40155 and London, ex-Holford Collection, no. 30, all of which are stylistically related to Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, Corale di Monte

• Wreathed medallion in colours of Bernardino with the holy monogram., Cutting from a manuscript

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;

• Historiated initial 'D' of the Coronation of the Virgin., Cutting from a liturgical manuscript

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;

• Historiated initial 'D' of the Calling of Peter and Andrew., Cutting from a choir book

departmental copy of the sale catalogue. 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;

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, with a partial border including Tudor roses, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 28.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal arms of England Stephen Baron London England, S. E. (London?)

• Drawings of vein men, and man with notes of body parts, at the beginning of a treatise upon blood-letting in German., Medical miscellany

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.36’, f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Drawing of a Zodiac man, at the beginning of the Numerus et Ordo signorum., Medical miscellany

in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.7.36’, f. iii verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549

• Puzzle initial 'B'(onifacius), at the beginning of Bonifatius's Liber sextus Decretalium., Quaestationes Disputatae (ends imperfectly)

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

• Decorated initial and architectural border with a flying putti holding heralic arms., Ars Grammatica

the Bembo family: arms (f. 1). Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 1834, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b.

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart at the beginning of the Pseudo-Augustine Manuale, with the arms or the Urswick family and the motto 'Misericordia' in the lower border., Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies

Publications Society, 1950- ), I: Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks: Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries~, no. 463 (dated 1711 to London). A partial scatter border (f. 2). A historiated initial with a portrait of Augustine (f. 2). Large and small

• Miniature with the portrait of King Henry VIII, and the beginning of John Croke's English translation of Psalms., Psalms in English verse (girdle book)

Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. King Henry VIII John Croke (translator) London England, S. E. (London)

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in

• Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard., Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms) (index Heraldry)

Coloured drawing of a knight in armour and tabard. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in