• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' of Arthur drawing the sword from the stone., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

sword from the stone. Written in the Picard dialect of Old French.The text of Joseph d'Arimathie is incomplete at the beginning and begins at l. 65 of the text (O'Gorman 1995, p. 49).The Suite de Merlin lacks one leaf after

• Detail of an historiated initial 'O' with image of King Arthur setting infants adrift in a boat., Joseph d'Arimathie (ff. 1-18), Le Livre de Merlin (ff. 18v-74), Suite de Merlin (ff. 74-226), ('the Huth Manuscript')

setting infants adrift in a boat. Written in the Picard dialect of Old French.The text of Joseph d'Arimathie is incomplete at the beginning and begins at l. 65 of the text (O'Gorman 1995, p. 49).The Suite de Merlin lacks one

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(enricus) enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn against a background of the royal colours., Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke

she became queen in March 1533: her heraldic device of an imperial falcon (f. 1); see Carley 2000 and 2004).The Old Royal Library: 1542 Westminster inventory no. 99 (f. 1).Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and