• Miniatures of sheep and of rams., Bestiary

Miniatures of sheepand of rams. 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,

• Miniatures of sheep., Bestiary

Miniatures 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, d. 1725), book

• Historiated initial 'S' of two saints stopping a soldier from killing a sheep., Cutting from a choir book

the same artist, Nerio, and probably from the same manuscripts as Add. 32058, ff. 1 (a)-(b), and 2 (b).Musical notation. 1 historiated initial 'S' of two saints stopping a soldier from killing a sheep, in colours and gold. On the

• 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,

• On the left, a miniature of Adam naming the animals, with various animals including a lion, deer, dog, rabbit, and horse, and on the right, sheep and rams., Bestiary

lion, deer, dog, rabbit, and horse, and on the right, sheepand rams. 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

• Drawing of king Arthur finding a giant roasting a pig., Roman de Brut, a verse epitome (begins imperfectly) with continuation to Edward III; Destruction de Rome; Fierabras

finding a giant roasting a pig. The first quire misbound; the right order being ff. 2, 8, 3-7, 1, 9.French verse translation, in octosyllabic couplets, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.One of the first images of Stonehenge: see discussion

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sheep-horned dragons., Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre)(index Alexandre)

ff. 83, 86, 92). Foliate initials in colours and gold with extensions. Small initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white, and line-fillers in blue, rose and gold with penwork decoration in white in the

• Miniature depicting a pig, an ox, and a bull., Theological miscellany, including the Summa de vitiis (see Notes for contents)

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. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to

• Detail of a nine-part miniature of a lion, a bear, a boar, a stag, a leopard wearing a crown, a horse, a unicorn, a camel, and a sheep., De proprietatibus rerum (Livre des proprietez des choses)

colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold, and a partial border, at the beginning of the prologue (f. 9). 19 one-column miniatures in colours and gold, with puzzle initials in gold and blue with red and

• Detail of a miniature of sheep and ewes., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

excommunicated as apostate and thief in 1387 (see Warner and Gilson, 1921): inscribed, 'Iste liber rep[ar]atu[m] fuit p[er] fratre[m] Joh[an]em Malli[n]gg', 14th century (f.150). Added leaves from a service book containing lessons and prayers for Trinity Sunday and preceding days,

• 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

• Detail from the left-hand margin of David tending his sheep., Bible (the 'Worms Bible') (index Frankenthal Bible), Genesis to Job

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, probably acquired by George Suttie, their

• Calendar for November with drawings of a man killing a pig (labour of the month), all saints and all souls, emblems of saints: a chain (for Leonard), a bishop's mitre (Martin), Archbishop Edmund., Agricultural almanac containing an astronomical calendar (1420), miscellaneous tables, mnemonic verses and charms

calendar pages with tinted drawings in colours of the labours of the months and the signs of the zodiac, and various pictures and emblems representing saints' days and other feasts (ff. 5-16). Drawings in colours of notable events; written above

• Detail of various scenes of daily life pictured in the border, including a man drawing water and a pig being slaughtered., Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise) (index Splendor of the Sun)

drawing water and a pig being slaughtered. The date 1582 is inscribed in gold in a roundel on f. 15 and on blocks of stone on ff. 27, 28. 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold

• Calendar page for December, with Capricorn and a man killing a pig at the top., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

11, 1-9. 12 calendar pages in colours and gold, with the text in gold on purple parchment and scenes of the months and Zodiac signs (ff. 1v-7). 4 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 7v, 8, 10v, 11). 2

• Calendar page for December, with Capricorn and a man killing a pig at the top., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

11, 1-9. 12 calendar pages in colours and gold, with the text in gold on purple parchment and scenes of the months and Zodiac signs (ff. 1v-7). 4 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 7v, 8, 10v, 11). 2

• Historiated initials of a man praying and a man killing a pig or boar., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

Historiated initials of a man praying and a man killing a pig or boar. The Veronica image is the earliest in Western art, according to Lewis 1987 p. 127.This is the earliest richly illuminated manuscript with fairly definite evidence of

• Calendar page for December, with inhabited 'KL' initials of the labour of the month, of a man killing a pig, and an illuminated roundel containing the zodiac symbol for Capricorn., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalms 38, 68, 97, 101, 109 and other divisions and at Lauds, Prime, Terce, Vespers and Compline of the Hours of the Virgin, and other divisions, including the Penetential Psalms and the

• Text page with a bar border of a dragon and a hybrid figure and an historiated initial 'D'(omine) of sheep, oxen and calves being killed and eaten., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

and a hybrid figure and an historiated initial 'D'(omine) of sheep, oxen and calves being killed and eaten. The former 18th-century binding now kept separately as Egerton 3277B. 15 very large historiated initials with three-sides bar borders in colours

• Text page with a bar border and an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) Nabal shearing sheep in Carmel, at the beginning of Psalm 40., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalms 38, 68, 97, 101, 109 and other divisions and at Lauds, Prime, Terce, Vespers and Compline of the Hours of the Virgin, and other divisions, including the Penetential Psalms and the