• Detail of a marginal painting of a female pig on stilts, wearing a conical hat, from the left-hand margin of the folio., Chroniques, Vol. IV, part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart')

figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 3, 23v, 34, 43, 60v, 64, 83v, 99, 112v, 135v, 146). 18 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and partial foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold

• Decorated initial-word panel accompanied by a resting black sheep, and an initial word surrounded by a foliate scroll, at the beginning of the customs of Passover., Festival prayer book, Italian rite

178v, 183)Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. 3 frontispieces with initial-word panels and full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 27v, 30v). 1 full-page miniature including the first owner’s inscription (f. 287). Numerous initial-word panels and initial words

• Detail of a ecorated initial-word panel accompanied by a resting black sheep, and an initial word surrounded by a foliate scroll, at the beginning of the customs of Passover., Festival prayer book, Italian rite

178v, 183)Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. 3 frontispieces with initial-word panels and full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 27v, 30v). 1 full-page miniature including the first owner’s inscription (f. 287). Numerous initial-word panels and initial words

• Bas-de-page scene of sheep and a group of people talking., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

of sheepand a group of people talking. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and

• 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,

• Full-page miniature of floral motifs inhabited by animals (including a monkey with his back turned) and birds, with two medallions of a squirrel and a pig (?) and including the first owner’s inscription in decorated panels., Festival prayer book, Italian rite

back turned) and birds, with two medallions of a squirrel and a pig (?) and including the first owner’s inscription in decorated panels. Parallel Hebrew foliation. Gilt edges.Censors’ erasures (e.g., ff. 2, 8v, 154, 155v, 178v, 183)Hair side and flesh

• Historiated intial 'T'(itire) at the beginning of book 1 of Virgil's Eclogues, with a portrait of Virgil holding a scroll with his initials 'P. V. M. (P. Vergilius Maro); a miniature in the border of a shepherd piping and sheep? and a partial foliate border., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid), with Argumentum and verses

border in gold and colours, with a bird (f. 54). Four partial borders in gold and colours (ff. 4, 18, 26, 43v). A historiated initial in gold and colours (f. 4) and other foliate initials in gold and colours. Unfinished

• Detail from the lower margin of a herald with a horn on the right, and two monkeys in hats jousting, riding a bear and a pig., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

the Vienna and Copenhagen Toison d’Or (ff. 14v, 281v, 284).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Foliation in red beginning on f. 10.Written instructions to the illuminator. 5 half-page miniatures in colours and gold, with full borders, and initials in colours and gold

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man driving an oxen and sheep past a crippled and a king., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

andsheep past a crippled and a king. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated

• Detail of a marginal miniature of a woman shearing a sheep, illustrating the month of June in the calendar., Psalter

and the Trinity (f. 108v). Small marginal calendar miniatures in colours and gold with the labours of the months and Zodiac signs integrated in a full border of acanthus leaves, flowers, birds and fruits on a gold, blue, red

• Miniature of Simon de Hesdin presenting his book to the king of France Charles V (index presentation scene), in the foreground, a dog pursues a monkey. Full strew border in the Ghent-Bruges style with acanthus leaves, flowers, figures, and a monkey mounted on a sheep (damaged), with a space left blank for a coat of arms. Decorated initial 'L'(a briefte) at the beginning of book 1., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 1, imperfect

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,