• Zoomorphic initial 'R'(adix), formed from a snake and a crowned tree., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Zoomorphic initial Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Illuminated initials 'C' and 'S' (this latter formed form a dragon)., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Illuminated initials Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a miniature of a ship at sea, flying the St George cross., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Ship at sea Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a miniature of a snake and a bird., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Snake and bird Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'R'(adix), formed from a snake and a crowned tree., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Zoomorphic initial Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'C'., Almagest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies

inscribed 'Gresham' (f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Illuminated initial Master of 1482 John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti, Plato of Tivoli London England, S. E. (London)

• A section of foliate border of the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers, the motto 'Semper' and the initials 'L. X. P. M.', measuring 440 x 45 mm. On the reverse the abbreviation 'e[m]'., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

Add. 60630, ff. 8, 33-38; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and

• Full-page border and section of border pasted at its centre in colours and gold with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, and bezants., Cuttings from a manuscript of Innocent VIII

and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 60630, ff. 13-18, 39-42; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see ~The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection~, 2 vols, (Leeds: The

• A full-page border in colours and gold, with the text removed, of trompe l'oeil flowers, fruit, jewels and cameos, naturalistic birds, hybrid creatues, and three medallions containing the inscriptions 'In / Domino / Confi / do', 'Spes mea Deus' above three violas, and the bishoply arms of Francisco de Mendoza Bobadilla., Cutting from a liturgical manuscript, probably a Missal, of Francisco de Mendoza Bobadilla (index Bovadilla)

Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.Other cuttings possibly from the same Missal are London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 83 (former Mr Neil F. Philips, Q. C., Collection); and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica

• Historiated initial 'C' of a saint (upper left)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the Roger's, according to an

• Historiated initial 'C' of a saint (upper right)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the Roger's, according to an

• Historiated initial 'D' of a saint (left centre)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the Roger's, according to an

• Historiated initial 'D' of a saint (right centre)., Cuttings from a liturgical manuscript

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the Roger's, according to an

• Detail of a diagram of the eight winds at Book I, vi, 12., On Architecture (De architectura)

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Cross and the ownership inscription of Goderamnus, 'prepositus' of the abbey of St. Pantaleon, Cologne., On Architecture (De architectura)

a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright 1972). Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought

• Title page in gold and colours with full border and birds (peacocks and roosters)., 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

• Miniature of an Evangelist portrait of Matthew., 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

• Miniature of Evangelist portrait of Luke; incipit page of Luke, 'Quoniam Quidam.', 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

• An engraved historiated full-page border of medallions containing the four Evangelists and scenes from the life of the Virgin and the life and Passion of Christ: (anti-clockwise from top left) of the Annunciation, Luke, the Nativity, the Flight into Egypt, Christ's Dispute with the Doctors, the Baptism of Christ, John, the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the Last Supper, Matthew, the Agony in the Garden, Christ before Caiaphas, Christ before Pontius Pilate, the Crucifixion, Mark, and the Resurrection., Cuttings from a printed Missal, containing text from the Masses for the feasts of Pentecost and Augustus

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May 1856,

• An engraved historiated full-page border of medallions containing the four Evangelists and scenes from the life of the Virgin and the life and Passion of Christ: (anti-clockwise from top left) of the Annunciation, Luke, the Nativity, the Flight into Egypt, Christ's Dispute with the Doctors, the Baptism of Christ, Matthew, the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the Last Supper, John, the Agony in the Garden, Christ before Caiaphas, Christ before Pontius Pilate, the Crucifixion, Mark, and the Resurrection., Cuttings from a printed Missal, containing text from the Masses for the feasts of Pentecost and Augustus

1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £33 12s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May 1856,