• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) of a teacher with students, at the beginning of the Physica., Physical treatises

(f. 4); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 8v

• Text page with glosses and marginal drawings., Physical treatises

(f. 4); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 8v

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a goat playing the violin., Glosses to Aristotle's Physical treatises, with a table of contents

(f. 4); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 8v

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost quam) of a man gazing at the heavens, with earth and sea before him, at the beginning of Meteorologica, and a marginal drawing of a man pointing to a gloss., Physical treatises

(f. 4); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 8v

• Detail of a historiated initial 'P'(ost quam) of a man, with the sky, earth, and sea before him, at the beginning of Meteorologica, with an instruction for the display script., Physical treatises

(f. 4); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, royal Appendix 71, f. 8v

• Historiated initial 'F'(ides est substancia), added in the 14th century, of a monk kneeling before the Virgin and Child with a scroll inscribed, 'In te confidit anima mea'., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

university of Oxford.William Wymundham and William Fykeys, rector of Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, and donor to Ramsey abbey library (see Cotton Roll ii. 16): their names inscribed in the 15th-century (f. 356). Richard Pembroke, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St

• Pen-flourished initials., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

university of Oxford.William Wymundham and William Fykeys, rector of Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, and donor to Ramsey abbey library (see Cotton Roll ii. 16): their names inscribed in the 15th-century (f. 356). Richard Pembroke, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St

• Text page., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

university of Oxford.William Wymundham and William Fykeys, rector of Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, and donor to Ramsey abbey library (see Cotton Roll ii. 16): their names inscribed in the 15th-century (f. 356). Richard Pembroke, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St

• Pen-flourished initial 'D'(e)., Epistola Dyonisii ad Polycarpum (f. 1v), added subject index preceding Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia (ff. 47v-51), sections of William of Auxerre's Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi) added to fill lacunae (ff. 80-81, 127-158v)

university of Oxford.William Wymundham and William Fykeys, rector of Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, and donor to Ramsey abbey library (see Cotton Roll ii. 16): their names inscribed in the 15th-century (f. 356). Richard Pembroke, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost)., Epistola Dyonisii ad Polycarpum (f. 1v), added subject index preceding Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia (ff. 47v-51), sections of William of Auxerre's Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi) added to fill lacunae (ff. 80-81, 127-158v)

university of Oxford.William Wymundham and William Fykeys, rector of Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, and donor to Ramsey abbey library (see Cotton Roll ii. 16): their names inscribed in the 15th-century (f. 356). Richard Pembroke, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St

• Historiated initial 'F'(uit) of an angel and Zacharias censing the altar, with a full bar-border with foliate cornerpieces, marginal animals (including a squirrel, lion, rabbit, birds, dog, peacock and hybrids) and shields with the arms of Edward I, Edward of Caernarvon, Richard, King of the Romans (Edward's I uncle), and his son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, at the beginning of Luke., Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor')

hybrids) and shields with the arms of Edward I, Edward of Caernarvon, Richard, King of the Romans (Edward's I uncle), and his son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, at the beginning of Luke. Includes table of contents (ff. 1r-v).The manuscript is

• Decorated initial 'O'(mne)., Miscellany of devotional and theological texts, including De statu interioris hominis post lapsum, a treatise relating to penance, and the Summula confessionis (imperfect)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Written by more than one scribe Richardof Saint-Victor,

• Text page with a decorated initial, now largely illegible., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page with a decorated initial 'M'(oste swete Lord), and lettering in red., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold

• Text page., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

addressed to her father the duke of Suffolk (see f. 79), also notes in the hand of her husband.Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold