• Detail of a miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

of a miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning

• Text page from Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this manuscript was designed as part of a set of four volumes comprising the entire text of the Bible. The present manuscript is the only one to have survived intact, but

• Historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

beginning of Ruth. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this manuscript was designed as part of a set of four

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

Detail of an historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

beginning of Exodus. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this manuscript was designed as part of a set of four

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus. Catchwords, quire signatures in upper or lower margins, guide numbers for chapter numbers, numerous corrections and corrector's signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael

• Text page of Leviticus 18: 16, reading 'Et uxorem fratris sui nullus accipet' ('Nobody may marry his brother's wife') marked by a manicule in the margin., Bible (Octateuch)

signatures 'corr' next to catchwords.According to Michael A. Michael, this manuscript was designed as part of a set of four volumes comprising the entire text of the Bible. The present manuscript is the only one to have survived intact, but

• Initial with penwork decoration., St David's Register and Statute Book, including copies of episcopal, royal and papal documents and grants, imperfect

copies of episcopal, royal and papal documents and grants, imperfect The manuscript was probably compiled during the episcopate of Edward Vaughan (index Fychan) (b. c. 1450, d. 1522/3), bishop of St David's 1509-1522 (see Harper 2007).The Catholic church of St

• Decorated initial 'E'(dwardus)., Statutes (Henry III to Richard II), imperfect at the end (index Statuta)

in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a 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 England

• Decorated initial 'C'(om[m]e hugh le despenser)., Various documents and legal texts including a list of English counts, a list of English knights, statutes of king Edward III from the 1st to the 50th year of his reign (1327-1377), and statutes of king Richard II up to the 14th year of his reign (1391)

a list of English counts, a list of English knights, statutes of king Edward III from the 1st to the 50th year of his reign (1327-1377), and statutes of king Richard II up to the 14th year of his reign

• Genealogy of the dukes of Normandy: Richard the Fearless (d. 996)., Statutes of William the Bastard (ff. 1-8v); Genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree from Ethelbert to Edward III (r. 1327-1377) (ff. 9-18v)

Genealogy of the dukes of Normandy: Richard the Fearless (d. 996). A composite manuscript. Diagrams and family trees in red, grey and yellow ink. Statutes of William the Bastard (ff. 1-8v); Genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree

• Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi): the women at the sepulchre; an angel appears in the tomb; two men appear to the women; the women tell the disciples; and in the margin, scenes of the death and burial of Richard FitzAlan., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

the margin, scenes of the death and burial ofRichard FitzAlan. The former 18th-century binding now kept separately as Egerton 3277B. 15 very large historiated initials with three-sides bar borders in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalms 38,

• Miniature of Charlemagne welcoming Clement Scotus and another, and giving the Abbey of Tours to Alcuin of York., Chroniques de France ou de St Denis

of Charlemagne welcoming Clement Scotus and another, and giving the Abbey of Tours to Alcuin ofYork. With over 400 illustrations, this manuscript is one of the moxt luxurious French manuscripts of the 14th century.According to Hedeman 1991, one

• Decorated initial-word panel accompanied with a partial foliate border in the outer margin inhabited by a deer. In the upper margin, illustration of a man lighting the Hanukkah lamp, at the beginning of the section on Hanukkah., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

80v). Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~) Jekuthiel ben Solomon, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 28 Sivan [5]134 [1374] (f. 298v); ~Jekuthiel~ is marked off in the initial letters of the lines

• Decorated initial-word panel accompanied by a foliate scroll coming out of the mouths of two dragons and inhabited by a spread eagle, at the beginning of the section on the laws of Yom Kippur., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

initial-word panel accompanied by a foliate scroll coming out of the mouths of two dragons and inhabited by a spread eagle, at the beginning of the section on the laws of Yom Kippur. Pricking and ruling are visible. Words deleted

• Detail: an illustration of a man lighting the Hanukkah lamp, at the beginning of the section on Hanukkah., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

80v). Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~) Jekuthiel ben Solomon, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 28 Sivan [5]134 [1374] (f. 298v); ~Jekuthiel~ is marked off in the initial letters of the lines

• Decorated initial-word panel, and partial foliate border with leaves forming medallions inhabited by animals and birds, and with an emblem of a lion and a rooster in the upper left corner., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

80v). Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~) Jekuthiel ben Solomon, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 28 Sivan [5]134 [1374] (f. 298v); ~Jekuthiel~ is marked off in the initial letters of the lines

• Initial-word panel inhabited by a dragon and decorated with gold vines, accompanied with two foliate scrolls., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

80v). Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~) Jekuthiel ben Solomon, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 28 Sivan [5]134 [1374] (f. 298v); ~Jekuthiel~ is marked off in the initial letters of the lines

• Decorated initial-word panel accompanied with a partial foliate border coming out of the mouth of a horse, and with an illustration of the ~sukkah~ (booth for Sukkot) and a man holding a ~lulav~ branch and an ~etrog~ (a species of citrus), at the beginning of the tractate on Sukkot., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

border coming out of the mouth of a horse, and with an illustration of the ~sukkah~ (booth for Sukkot) and a man holding a ~lulav~ branch and an ~etrog~ (a species of citrus), at the beginning of the tractate on

• The initial words of the section on Seder Nashim (Laws of Women) is accompanied by decorated panels. Full foliate border inhabited by animals and birds., Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~)

80v). Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (~Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon~) Jekuthiel ben Solomon, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 28 Sivan [5]134 [1374] (f. 298v); ~Jekuthiel~ is marked off in the initial letters of the lines