• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(d) of David in prayer, from the beginning of a Gradual., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Page of music on the verso of the folio., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Miniature of David in penitence, and decorated initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Prayer Book

branches, in gold and purple. All text pages framed in gold. Rubrics in gold. Prayer Book Apparently designed for an English owner: inscribed by Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey: see Backhouse 1994.Inscriptions in French, 16th-century: 'en priant a saintte George…',

• Historiated initial 'A'(d) of David in prayer, from the beginning of a Gradual., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Detail of the last 4 staves of music and an inscription., Leaf from a Gradual

Edward :4: the book was made beyond the seas…' (verso).John Brickeston(?), 16th century: inscription (verso).Thomas Hall(?), 16th century: inscription in English (verso). ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl

• Coloured print with Christ as the Man of Sorrows surrounded by instruments of the Passion pasted to a page painted in red covered with streaming blood, with an indulgence (later defaced): ‘To all them that devoutly say five Pater nosters, five Aves, and a Creed afore such a figure are granted 32,755 years of pardon.’, Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), in two versions, and other devotional texts, including a litany

of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle

• Historiated initial 'H'(ere) of the author presenting the book to an enthroned king, with a full border containing white and red roses, at the beginning of the list of contents., The Master of Game

owned by him: white roses of York joined with red roses of Lancaster (ff. 1, 2v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Presentation of the book Edward of York England

• Detail of calligraphic specimens with decorated initial 'O' signed by Petruccio Ubaldini, dated 1550, and dedicated to Edward VI (in the fourth year of his reign)., Specimens of Calligraphy

Gilson 1921).In the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 42, no, 3.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimens Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini London England, S. E. (London)

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

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

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

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

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

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

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

1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

• 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

they were lifted from the album, remounted individually and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio numbers. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

• 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

they were lifted from the album, remounted individually and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio numbers. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To

• Flourished initial 'U'(rhanus)., Cartulary of the Augustinian priory, Brinkburn, Northumbria, in eight capitula, imperfect

younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th duke of Norfolk, in 1630: according to a note in English (f. 3v).Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts; his arms stamped in gold

• Text page., Medical miscellany, including an English translation of Gilbertus Anglicus's Compendium medicinae (ff. 63v-151v), imperfect; 'Super lunam' (ff. 179v-181); a zodiacal lunary (ff. 173-179); a gynecological tract (ff. 158-172v); Bernard Goron's De prognosticis (ff. 61-63)

in red, some with penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Descenders extended, and some decorated in red. Medical miscellany, including an English translation of Gilbertus Anglicus's Compendium medicinae (ff. 63v-151v), imperfect; 'Super lunam' (ff. 179v-181); a zodiacal lunary (ff. 173-179); a

• Miniature of Christ as Man of Sorrows., Devotional miscellany

a miniature of Eltheldreda (f. 64v) is consistent with an East Anglian patron.? Anne Boleyn: inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English 'Be daly prove you shall me fynde To be to yu bothe lovynge and kynde' (f. 66v), and King

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) with the dove of the Holy Spirit., Devotional miscellany

a miniature of Eltheldreda (f. 64v) is consistent with an East Anglian patron.? Anne Boleyn: inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English 'Be daly prove you shall me fynde To be to yu bothe lovynge and kynde' (f. 66v), and King

• Miniature of the dead Christ and Mary., Devotional miscellany

a miniature of Eltheldreda (f. 64v) is consistent with an East Anglian patron.? Anne Boleyn: inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English 'Be daly prove you shall me fynde To be to yu bothe lovynge and kynde' (f. 66v), and King

• Miniature of Christ carrying the cross., Devotional miscellany

a miniature of Eltheldreda (f. 64v) is consistent with an East Anglian patron.? Anne Boleyn: inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English 'Be daly prove you shall me fynde To be to yu bothe lovynge and kynde' (f. 66v), and King