• Detail of a painting of a man sitting at the spread table lifting his cup and saying the blessing over food., Prayer book, Italian rite

Detail of a painting of a man sitting at the spread table lifting his cup and saying the blessing over food. Captions of the drawings are perhaps in Judeo-Italian. Watermark of a ~fleur-de-lis~, f. [183], unidentified. Decorated initial-word panel with

• Fragment of the roll with the genealogical line of Cnut, roundels of Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, and the line of the Normam ancestors of William the Conqueror: Rollo, William and Richard I the Fearless., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

Fragment of the roll with the genealogical line of Cnut, roundels of Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, and the line of the Normam ancestors of William the Conqueror: Rollo, William and Richard I the Fearless. Contains the genealogy of

• Detail from the roll of the descendants of Richard I the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, to Henry II and his descendants., Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings

roll of the descendants ofRichard I the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, to Henry II and his descendants. Contains the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Henry III (b. 1207, d. 1272), with a portrait of

• Puzzle initial, Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace)

plain red or blue. Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace) Richard III (b. 1452, d. 1485), king of England and lord of Ireland,: inscriptions: 'Anne Warrewyk', 'R[ichard Duke of] Gloucestre' (inside upper cover), and 'R Gloucestre' (inside lower

• Initials with pen-flourishing, in the Rituale., Rituale, Use of Sarum

1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham

• null, Catalogus medicam (ff. 1-78), Receipes in English (ff. 79-200)

(ff. 1-78), Receipes in English (ff. 79-200) Inscription, 15th-century: 'Richard Flint' (f. 207).Inscription, 15th-century: 'John …(?)' (f. 207).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Highlighting of letters in red. Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey The Benedectine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: register of its Somersetshire estates, compiled, at the order of Abbot Richard

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Highlighting of letters in red. Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey The Benedectine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: register of its Somersetshire estates, compiled, at the order of Abbot Richard

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Highlighting of letters in red. Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey The Benedectine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: register of its Somersetshire estates, compiled, at the order of Abbot Richard

• Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city of York in the lower margins and two kings pointing the text in the outer margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city ofYork in the lower margins and two kings pointing the text in the outer margin. Catchwords. Initials in red with blue or brown pen-flourishing, or in blue with red

• Initial-word panels with gold letters and foliate scrolls., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Decorated initial-word panels with foliate scrolls and two hybrids., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Seventeenth-century North-Italian morocco binding with elaborate blind-tooled borders., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

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~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the council of Joseph's brothers (Gen. 37:26-27), Joseph being pulled out of the well (Gen. 37:28), smearing Joseph's coat with goat blood (Gen. 37:31), upper left: Joseph's brothers selling him to the Ishmaelites (Gen. 27:28), lower right: Joseph's brothers presenting the bloody coat to Jacob, Jacob tearing his clothes (Gen. 37:32-34), lower left: Joseph and Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39:12-14), Joseph interpreting the dreams of the butler and the baker (Gen. 40:9-19)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• f. 4v: full-page miniature, upper right: Loth and his daughters escaping from Sodom, upper left: the Sacrifice of Isaac, lower right: Jacob and Esau, lower left: Jacob's ladder; f. 5: full-page miniature, upper right: Jacob wrestling with an angel, upper left: Joseph's dream, lower right: Joseph relating his dream to his father and brothers, lower left: Joseph meeting an angel on the way to his brothers. Joseph's encounter with an angel is based on a midrashic explanation of Gen. 37:15, 'And a certain man found him' (Genesis Rabbah 84:14)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the increased labour of the Israelites, upper left: building of the two cities, lower right: Aaron's rod turning to a snake and swallowing the magicians's rod (Ex. 7:12), lower left: the first plague: blood., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the sixth plague: boils, upper left: the seventh plague: hail, Moses begging God to stop the plague of hail (Ex. 9:33), lower right: the eighth plague: locusts, lower left: the ninth plague: darkness, the Israelites despoiling the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35-36). According to the Exodus Rabbah, the Israelites despoiled the Egyptians under the cover of the darkness of the ninth plague (Ex. Rabbah 1:12)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: Moses' sister, Miriam seated on a hilltop watching the baby Moses, Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses (Ex. 2:4-6), upper left: Pharaoh's daughter presenting Moses to Pharaoh, lower right: an Egyptian smiting an Israelite, Moses slaughtering the Egyptian (Ex. 2:11-12), lower left: Moses saving the daughters of Midian (Ex. 2:17)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the tenth plague: the death of the first-born, the death of Pharaoh's first-born, the funeral of the first-born of the Israelites (or the Israelites taking Joseph's bier out of Egypt? (Ex. 13:19), upper left: the Israelites coming out of Egypt, lower right: the Egyptians pursuing the Israelites, lower left: the Israelites crossing the Red Sea., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

plague: the death of the first-born, the death of Pharaoh's first-born, the funeral of the first-born of the Israelites (or the Israelites taking Joseph's bier out of Egypt? (Ex. 13:19), upper left: the Israelites coming out of Egypt, lower right: