• Detail of a miniature of sheep., Bestiary

Detail of a miniature of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,

• Detail of a miniature of two sheep., Herbal

physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1).Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1, 1v). Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Sheep Lombardy

• Detail of a miniature of a boar or a pig, labelled 'Porcina caro.', Herbal

and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1).Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1, 1v). Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Boar or

• Miniatures of plants, sheep, and a dragon., Herbal

and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1).Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1, 1v). Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plants, sheep,

• Detail of miniature illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking. 17 miniatures with large historiated or decorated initials and full borders, with all'antica elements including putti, candelabrae, swags, cornucopiae, dolphins, sphinxes, masks, trophies and heraldic decoration, in colours and gold, at

• Miniature of a plant and a boar or pig, labelled 'porcina caro'., Herbal

physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1).Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1, 1v). Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Plant and

• Miniature of the sermon of a hypocritical priest, who preaches to six seated figures while a demon tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,

• Detail of a miniature of the sermon of a hypocritical priest, who preaches to six seated figures while a demon tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX., Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy)

tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,

• Detail of a miniature of a stray sheep returning home by the advice of the stag, at the beginning of Chapter 9 of Book 2., Spiegel der Weisheit

sheep returning home by the advice of the stag, at the beginning of Chapter 9 of Book 2. 1 large decorated initial with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (f. 1). 73 small miniatures, in colours

• Historiated border men driving sheep from a shed, for April., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

is missing. 11 full historiated borders on versos, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1v-11v). 3 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 229, 251, 259). Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours Letters 'IK' linked

• Historiated border with sheep shearing, for June., Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours

is missing. 11 full historiated borders on versos, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1v-11v). 3 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 229, 251, 259). Texts and decoration added to a Book of Hours Letters 'IK' linked

• Full white vine border, inhabited by birds, with a roundel of Virgil, another of shepherds minding their sheep, a large initial 'T'(itire), and, in the lower margin, a wreath, intended for arms, supported by two putti., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-35); Georgica (index Georgics) (ff. 35-55v); Aeneis (index Aeneid) (ff. 55v-239v)

by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian,

• Detail of a miniature of a fox, having grown old and setting off on a pilgrimage, refusing the companionship of the watch-dog, the wild ass, the bear, the lion, the peacock, the wolf, the pig, and the mule, and choosing the companionship of the panther, the ape, the lamb, the hare, the hedgehog, the ox, the young hound, and the ant, at the beginning of Chapter 24 of Book 1., Spiegel der Weisheit

of a fox, having grown old and setting off on a pilgrimage, refusing the companionship of the watch-dog, the wild ass, the bear, the lion, the peacock, the wolf, the pig,and the mule, and choosing the companionship of the

• Detail of a miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

Donatian and Rogatian in red (24th May; venerated in Nantes and in the diocese of Meaux), and Fara (7th December, venerated in Faremoutier in Brie), but it includes as well both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the

• Miniature of Anthony holding a Tau cross and with a pig, being burned., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')

red and blue ground with a three-sided foliate border (f. 15). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins. Small initials (1 line) and line fillers in gold on red and

• Miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter

queen of England and Ireland (1553-1558): inscribed, 'Gode saue the most vertuous and no/bull Quene Marys gras, / and send her to injoye the crou[n]ne / of Eynglande longe tyme and spas / her enimys to confunde, and / hutterly

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

trenite þe ffadir & son & holigost þe makyng off þe worlde of adam and eue and afftir of noye and so ffro noye to abraham and so doune þe genelagy of our lady & þe birth off crist &