• Decorated initials, including with a hand blessing., Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January.

Highlighting of letters in red. Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January. James Woodhouse (d. 1866), Treasurer-General of the Ionian Islands: No.

• Decorated headpiece and initial., Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January.

Highlighting of letters in red. Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January. James Woodhouse (d. 1866), Treasurer-General of the Ionian Islands: No.

• Illuminated initial 'V'(eteris) with penwork decoration., Sententiae (index Sentences)

(index Sentences) The Dominican convent of Sudbury, Suffolk: inscription (f. 3).Very faint added text in Gothic cursive (ff. 1, 158v-162v).Inscribed 'John Mithmyng ?' (f. 1* v).Inscription 'master Hyllyard this book I doe give you to be at you one disposing

• Decorated initial 'C'(reatione) with penwork decoration, with list of chapters in three columns., Sententiae (index Sentences)

(index Sentences) The Dominican convent of Sudbury, Suffolk: inscription (f. 3).Very faint added text in Gothic cursive (ff. 1, 158v-162v).Inscribed 'John Mithmyng ?' (f. 1* v).Inscription 'master Hyllyard this book I doe give you to be at you one disposing

• Decorated initials 'C'(upientes) with ownership inscription in the upper margin of the Dominican convent at Sudbury, Suffolk., Sententiae (index Sentences)

(index Sentences) The Dominican convent of Sudbury, Suffolk: inscription (f. 3).Very faint added text in Gothic cursive (ff. 1, 158v-162v).Inscribed 'John Mithmyng ?' (f. 1* v).Inscription 'master Hyllyard this book I doe give you to be at you one disposing

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) with penwork decoration., Sententiae (index Sentences)

(index Sentences) The Dominican convent of Sudbury, Suffolk: inscription (f. 3).Very faint added text in Gothic cursive (ff. 1, 158v-162v).Inscribed 'John Mithmyng ?' (f. 1* v).Inscription 'master Hyllyard this book I doe give you to be at you one disposing

• Decorated initial 'H'(oc) with reserved designs and penwork decoration including arabesque motifs., Diadema monachorum

(d. 1720): inscribed 'William Cocke / Virginia / July 4, 1719' (f. 1); William Cocke is mentioned in John G. Kolp, ‘Holloway, John (1666?-1734), ~Oxford Dictionary of National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/68571, accessed 9 Jul 2007].The Harley

• Puzzle initial 'O'(nus) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Nahum., Minor Prophets, glossed

sancte marie vallis Dore' (f. 113).Inscribed, 15th century 'Bodduam' (f. 1). John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other manuscripts (see ~Diary~

• Decorated initials 'B'(eato) and 'N'(ovum) with interlace at the beginning of Jerome's letter to Pope Damasus., Gospels, with the Epistle to Damasus, Canon tables, and prefaces, imperfect

designed 'E': see Marsden 1999 p. 290 and n. 25. 2 full page miniatures of Evangelist portraits of Mark and John (ff. 45v, 78v). Canon tables in frames in brown and yellow, some with animal heads (ff. 3v-7). 4 very

• Decorated initials 'L'(iber), 'F'(uit), and 'H'(abuit)., Historia Scholastica, imperfect; and chronological digest (ff. 267-272v)

letters in red. Quire signatures with simple decoration. Historia Scholastica, imperfect; and chronological digest (ff. 267-272v) John King in 1647: inscription 'King 1647 John King' (f. 130).Ralph Palmer II (b. 1668, d. 1745/6), barrister, of Little Chelsea.Ralph Palmer III (b.

• Coloured initial 'H'(er ys godspelles) in green with penwork decoration in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley. Copied, directly or indirectly, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 441, omitting some passages due to defects in the Bodley manuscript (Marc 16:14-20, Luke 16:14- 17:1, and 24:

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

at the beginning of the Policraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter) at the beginning of book 1 of the Polycraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

1 of the Polycraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Decorated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of book 5 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

5 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Decorated initial 'A'(dversus), at the beginning of book 1 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

1 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

6 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

beginning of the Policraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Foliate initial 'P'(lacuit) with animal masks, dragons and a marginal extension, at the beginning of the dedication to Henry II., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of a crane, and barnacle geese growing from a tree., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the