• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script. Includes the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (ff. 1-100v) and a series of extracts from Ecclesiasticus and Isidore, Sententiae, under the title 'Hic pauca incipiunt de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script, at the beginning of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script, at the beginning of the Liber scintillarum. Includes the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (ff. 1-100v) and a series of extracts from Ecclesiasticus and Isidore, Sententiae, under the title 'Hic pauca incipiunt

• Detail of a miniature of a centaur holding a snake., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Detail of a miniature of goats on their hind legs., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Detail of a miniature of a wolf approaching a sheepfold., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Miniature of mice and worms., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature and foliage., Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John

colour (f. 136v). Small initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John The first leaf of this manuscript is bound in Harley 5958, f. 87. In the lower margin

• Decorated initial 'A'(sia), at the beginning of the entry for Asia., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Initial 'I'(n) with penwork decoration at the beginning of John. In the upper margin an inscription in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes., Gospel of John, with gloss

of John. In the upper margin an inscription in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Crossed tironian ets. Large and smaller initials in red (ff. 1-2v), two with penwork decoration in brown ink (ff. 1v, 2v). Gospel of John, with

• Full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist, a full border inhabited by birds and flowers, and, in the lower margin, a jewelled cross in a subsidiary medallion., Missal

with the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist, a full border inhabited by birds and flowers, and, in the lower margin, a jewelled cross in a subsidiary medallion. ff. [ii] and [145] are paper flyleaves pasted to parchment ones.Musical notation.Ruled

• Miniature of the Martyrdom of John the Baptist and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, as part of a cycle of Christological images., Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v)

the Martyrdom of John the Baptist and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, as part of a cycle of Christological images. The Veronica image is the earliest in Western art, according to Lewis 1987 p. 127.This is the earliest

• Decorated initial 'I'(nitium) with animal heads and interlace at the beginning of Mark., 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

• Woodcut of John holding a chalice., Collection of Scottish poetry

of John holding a chalice. 9 large (ff. 5v, 116v, 125v, 187, 189v, 193v, 198v, 208v, 213v [the same as on f. 193v]) and 8 small (ff. 178v, 182, 183, 183v, 185, 188v, 190v, 204v) woodcuts of the 15th century,

• Coloured letters., De trinitate (excerpts) (ff. 9-85v); De doctrina christiana (excerpts) (f. 8r-v); De rerum naturis (ff. 9-35v); calendar (ff. 1v-7v)

of a flaming mountain and a pelican in her piety (f. iii). (John Brough Taylor, F.S.A. (elected 1813), the editor of R. Hegge's Legend of St Cuthbert: inscription 'John Taylor, FSA' (f. i). Item 90 in an unidentified French sale

• Miniature of pelicans., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Detail of a miniature of pelicans., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Miniature of a nycticorax (a bird)., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Detail of a miniature of a nycticorax (a bird)., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Miniature of a phoenix gathering leaves, and of a phoenix in flame, at the beginning of the entry for phoenix., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles

• Detail of a miniature of a phoenix gathering leaves, and of a phoenix in flame, at the beginning of the entry for phoenix., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6557.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 167.Charles