• Initial 'H'(enrico) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the prefatory epistle to Henry II in Peter of Blois' ~Epistolae~., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'D'(um) decorated with a bird at the beginning of the ~Exhortationes~ of Peter of Blois., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Coloured initial 'P'(rima)., Computistica, De temporibus

royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1011' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Coloured initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the text, with an ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, reading 'H[ic] est liber s[an]c[t]i Albani q[ue]m q[u]i ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', and the monogram of cardinal Thomas Wolsey., Computistica, De temporibus

royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1011' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Coloured initial 'A'(nnus) at the beginning of book 1., Computistica, De temporibus

royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1011' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Decorated initial 'D'(e), at the beginning of the prologue of Bede's treatise 'De temporibus'., Computistica, De temporibus

royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1011' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Coloured initial 'T'(empora) and letters in Greek., Computistica, De temporibus

royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1011' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Double opening with ownership inscription, initial 'Q'(uoniam) and paraph with pen-flourishing., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum to 1277; a miscellany of theological treatises and monastic legal documents

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 5v (see Carley 2000).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 215' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page with ownership inscription., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum to 1277; a miscellany of theological treatises and monastic legal documents

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 5v (see Carley 2000).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 215' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page of the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors with each name marked by an intial., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum to 1277; a miscellany of theological treatises and monastic legal documents

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 5v (see Carley 2000).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 215' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page with paraphs marking the beginning of each document., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum to 1277; a miscellany of theological treatises and monastic legal documents

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 5v (see Carley 2000).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 215' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page with intial and large paraph with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors., Chronica pontificum et imperatorum to 1277; a miscellany of theological treatises and monastic legal documents

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 5v (see Carley 2000).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 215' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial, with addorsed animals., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'I'(nter) with foliate decoration., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Marginal drawing of a scribe at work, in the upper left margin., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Marginal drawing of a woman., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Plain red initial 'E'(cclesiastica) at the beginning of the first theological tract, with the ownership inscription of the Augustinian Priory of Merton, Surrey, in the upper margin, and the monogram of Thomas Wolsey in the lower margin., Various theological tracts, beginning, 'Ecclesiastica corectio que fit per excomunionem', Sentences analogous to the work of Peter Lombard, various brief texts on religious topics (De excomunicatione etc.), Isidore of Seville's exposition on Genesis and Exodus, extracts from Jerome's Epistolas taken from the Florilegium Angelicum, Sic et Non, imperfect at the beginning and the end, Dialogus inter philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum, imperfect at the beginning and the end, excerpts attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux

archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (f. 1) (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1080' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Nicholas of Lyre in a Franciscan habit, sitting at a desk and presenting his book to a king and a queen, at the beginning of the prologue 1., Postilla litteralis in vetus et novum testamentum

chief argent, or party per fess argent and sable; and paly of four gules and or (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1197' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after