• Detail of a miniature of Hercules fighting with three lions., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Hercules

• Miniature of the building of the Tower of Babel, at the beginning of Book 1., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Tower

• Detail of a miniature of the building of the Tower of Babel, at the beginning of Book 1., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Tower

• Miniature of Hercules and Theseus fighting with Scythian princesses., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Hercules

• Detail of a miniature of Hercules and Theseus fighting with Scythian princesses., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Hercules

• Miniature of the building of Troy, at the beginning of Book III., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Building

• Detail of a miniature of the building of Troy, at the beginning of Book III., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Building

• Miniature of the arrival of the Amazons on horseback., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Arrival

• Detail of a miniature of the arrival of the Amazons on horseback., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Arrival

• Detail of a miniature of the rape of Prosperina., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Rape

• Detail of a miniature of the battle of Theseus and Pirithous against Cerborus., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Ponthesilea, while Antenor and Aeneas speak to Priam., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Death

• Detail of a miniature of a battle at the walls of Troy., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle

• Detail of a miniature of Ulysses' dream., Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Le livre nomme Hercules)

8, 147, 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 46.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Ulysses'

• Puzzle initials 'E'(x ordine), 'D'(e excellentia) and 'I'(ncipit) with penwork decoration forming a border with human faces, animals and a blessing bishop, at the beginning of the prologues to De Concordia Evangelistarum of Zacharias of Besançon., De Concordia Evangelistarum (or Explanatio in Unum ex Quatuor)

Unum ex Quatuor) The Benedictine priory of St Mary, Worcester: inscribed 'Liber monasterii Wygornie' 14th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1042' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(antate) of angels singing, at the beginning of Psalm 97., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

marginal Latin annotations in his hand. The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number, no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Angels singing Jean Mallard, with

• Illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text., Letter to Henry VII

(f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Illuminated initial Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail from the full border of a bird, the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, and a grotesque., Letter to Henry VII

oratio' (f. 1); the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown (f. 1).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Border Johannes de Cirellis France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail of a miniature of the marriage of Alfour, king of Sicily, and princess Sybil of Spain., Edward's IV's Descent from Rollo (ff. 1-7); Romance of the Three Kings' Sons (ff. 8-123)

manuscript is the only fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of a romance in English to survive, according to Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 199.'This manuscript contains the sole surviving translation in Middle English of the Romance of the Three Kings' Sons, a text that

• Detail of a miniature of prince Philip surreptitiously leaving Paris to go to the aid of the king of Sicily., Edward's IV's Descent from Rollo (ff. 1-7); Romance of the Three Kings' Sons (ff. 8-123)

manuscript is the only fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of a romance in English to survive, according to Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 199.'This manuscript contains the sole surviving translation in Middle English of the Romance of the Three Kings' Sons, a text that