• Illuminated initial 'S'(elon), with a full border including an added white rose of York and the closed fetterlock in the lower border., La cité des dames

née Cecily Neville], duchess ofYork (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband RichardofYork, 3rd duke ofYork (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes the Yorkists badges of the white rose

• Historiated initial 'D' or 'O' of Christ Disputing with the Merchants. The robe of the figure to the right is inscribed 'A. P. S. VITV. SI?S'., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 52a); New York, The

• Historiated initial 'R' with Richard II, combined with a full foliate bar border, at the beginning of his statutes., Nova Statuta (index Statuta Angliae, Statute book, Statutes of England), for the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377)(ff. 11-140v), Richard II (r. 1377-1399)(ff. 141-218), Henry IV (r. 1399-1413)(ff. 219-265v), Henry V (r. 1413-1422) (ff. 265v-289v), to 15 Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)(ff. 289v-338v)

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. Richard II England

• null, Ab urbe condita; each Decade preceded by the tables attributed to Donato degli Albanzani (ff. 1-3v, 103-105v, 195-196v) (index History of Rome from its foundation)

cardinal (added to ff. 4, 106, 197).? Iacopo Piccolomini (b. 1422, d. 1479), member of the household of Pope Pius II (d. 1464), and bishop of Lucca from 1470: with an eight-line inscription including ‘Dum vixi Iacobus Piccolomini domus papa

• Miniature in three parts, including scenes of battle, with an illuminated initial in Livy's Ab urbe condita., Ab urbe condita; each Decade preceded by the tables attributed to Donato degli Albanzani (ff. 1-3v, 103-105v, 195-196v) (index History of Rome from its foundation)

cardinal (added to ff. 4, 106, 197).? Iacopo Piccolomini (b. 1422, d. 1479), member of the household of Pope Pius II (d. 1464), and bishop of Lucca from 1470: with an eight-line inscription including ‘Dum vixi Iacobus Piccolomini domus papa

• MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 24,203 British Library, London 160 images.

of the XIVth cent. Much injured by the application of an extract of galls to bring out the writing. On f. 22 b is an acknowledgment of a debt from Robert Barkynburyo, of Langton, to Richard Enggersoun, ofYork,

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 39943 British Library, London 167 images.

of ch. xxv, beg. of ch. xxviii, ends of chs. xxxi, xxxv (with rubric to xxxvi), xxxvi (with rubric to xxxvii), beg. of ch. xli, whole of ch. xliii, end of ch. xlv. f. 7 b: (5) (5) Account

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 30,031 British Library, London 115 images.

Description MIRROR of the Life of Christ: translated from the Speculum vite Christi of St. Bonaventura by Nicholas Love, prior of the Carthusian monastery of Mount Grace, co. York. The preface is headed, "Here bigynneþ þe prohemie of þe book

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 33,736 British Library, London 13 images.

a Latin elegiac poem in praise of Henry VII. and in celebration of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1486, by Peter Carmelianus of Brescia, afterwards Chaplain and Latin Secretary to the King, Archdeacon of Gloucester, etc. (Gr. x.) Vellum;

• beginning of the xvth cent. MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 24,194 British Library, London...

John of Trevise, Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucester, and chaplain to Thomas, 10th Lord Berkeley, viz.:—— Vellum; beginning of the xvth cent.; with illuminated borders and miniature initials. On ff. 4 and 36 are the arms ofRichard Beauchamp, Earl of