• 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

• 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,

• 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

• Drawing of a pig playing bagpipes, a jester showing his genitals, a man blowing a flute or pipe, and various hybrid creatures., De caelo, De anima

(f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Hybrids, a pig,and a jester Pseudo-Aristotle England

• Marginal drawing of a pig playing bagpipes, a jester showing his genitals, a man blowing a flute or pipe, and various hybrid creatures., De caelo, De anima

'Liber T. Carri' (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Pigand jester Pseudo-Aristotle England

• 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

• Drawing of sheep in a pen., De caelo, De anima

(f. 60v) and similar inscription (f. 145); see Watson.16th or 17th-century inscription 'Liber T. Carri' (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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,

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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