• Miniature of Caesar in a carriage., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Caesar in a carriage Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Miniature of an army fighting a fleet., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Army and fleet Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Miniature of the death of Pompey., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Death of Pompey Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Detail of a miniature of the suicide of Cato., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Suicide of Cato Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Detail of a miniature of Caesar being murdered., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Caesar being murdered Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Miniature of a battle with archers and riders in armour, at the beginning of book 7., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Detail of a miniature of king Ptolemy's fleet atacking a city., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• Miniature of Caesar's army and the view of Gaul with rivers and lands bearing inscriptions: 'Belges', 'sayne et marne', 'Rin', 'Celtes', 'Geronde', 'acquitai[n]s', at the beginning of book 2., Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)

Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Caesar's army Jean Duchesne Jean Duchesne Master of the London Wavrin Caesar, translated by Jean Duchesne (or Du Quesne) Lille France, N. (Lille) and Netherlands, S. (Bruges?)

• 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;

• 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)