• Detail of a decorated initial 'D'(enique)., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Inhabited initial 'D'(ici) with lions and dragons, at the beginning of the Enchiridion of Augustine., Enchiridion

Joscelyn, (b. 1529, d.1603), OldEnglish scholar and Latin secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker, a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red

• Coloured initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of Pseudo-Ambrose's De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum., De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum, Excerpta from Augustine and Ambrose

Joscelyn, (b. 1529, d.1603), OldEnglish scholar and Latin secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker, a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red

• Coloured initial 'M'(ulti) at the beginning of John Chrysostom's De muliere Chananaea., De muliere Chananaea, Miracula S. Letardi

Joscelyn, (b. 1529, d.1603), OldEnglish scholar and Latin secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker, a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red

• Decorated initials 'REVE'(rentissimis) and 'IAM'., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Decorated initial 'H'(ec)., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Decorated initial 'T'(empore) with an animal mask., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with a lion., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Decorated initials 'SE'(d)., De laudibus virginitatis

brown outline drawing with dragons, birds, lions, and foliate decoration. De laudibus virginitatis Added OldEnglish Glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3, 7).Added scribbles in OldEnglish and of proper names, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).The Benedictine cathedral

• Initial 'D' with zoomorphic and interlace decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, letter to Ehfrid (index: Heahfridum), both with interlinear and marginal glosses

(see Warner and Gilson, 1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666 (see Carley, 2000).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated intial

• Initial 'E' with penwork decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, letter to Ehfrid (index: Heahfridum), both with interlinear and marginal glosses

(see Warner and Gilson, 1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666 (see Carley, 2000).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Initial and

• Decorated initials, and text with an added gloss in Old English, Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

in red and blue. Psalter with OldEnglish gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v) ? The Old Minster, Winchester, by 1099: the

• Puzzle initial., Psalter, a metrical version (the Surtees Psalter version)

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Full border in

• 'Historical' annals of the six ages of the world, up to 1099 in English, added as a final leaf to the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

to 1099 in English, added as a final leaf to the manuscript. Unilluminated. The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090 ? The Old Minster, Winchester, by

• Illuminated initial 'U'(isio), at the beginning of Isaiah, with the ownership inscription of the cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, reading 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per Paulinum priorem', and the Westminster inventory number 'no. 324'., Glossed Isaiah

slip with notes on Isaiah (f. 256) and marginal glosses by the same hand (ff. 91v-169), 13th/14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 324' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnis) with geometric pattern and foliage, at the beginning of the prologue to Hypognosticon., Hypognosticon

65v).Added a treatise on metre, late 15th century (ff. 66r-v).Red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Puzzle initial 'P'(aulus), at the beginning of Galatians., Catholic Epistles and Galatians, with the Glossa ordinaria

Galatians, with the Glossa ordinaria Added two indexes to homilies on the Pauline Epistles, 14th century (f. 213r-v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 189' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'V'(ocavit), with foliate motifs and birds, at the beginning of Leviticus., Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses, imperfect at the end

pentateuc. E. vi. m'. (f. 1v); a similar inscription occurs in Royal 4 A VII, also from Rochester.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 514' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a decorated initial 'H'(ec), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of Deuteronomy., Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses, imperfect at the end

pentateuc. E. vi. m'. (f. 1v); a similar inscription occurs in Royal 4 A VII, also from Rochester.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 514' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Polixena, with a partial border and an illuminated initial 'A'(pres)., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond