• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a monk and a woman before a fire., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a monk and a nun approaching a house., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a nun kneeling before a monk., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Decorated initial 'I'(ncipit) with a marginal extension containing a hybrid and birds at the beginning of the prologue to the apocryphal epistle of Jeremiah, and a historiated initial 'P'(ropter) of Jeremiah giving a letter to a messenger with a marginal extension containing a hybrid and a dragon, at the beginning of the apocryphal epistle of Jeremiah., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Historiated initial 'F'(ides est substancia), added in the 14th century, of a monk kneeling before the Virgin and Child with a scroll inscribed, 'In te confidit anima mea'., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

price 53s. iiii.d. (f. 4).The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Egwine at Evesham, Worcestershire (see above).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1019' (f. 3), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Pen-flourished initials., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

price 53s. iiii.d. (f. 4).The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Egwine at Evesham, Worcestershire (see above).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1019' (f. 3), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Text page., Theological tracts, including the libros Dyonisii ariopagite secundum dominum Thomam abbatem sancti Andree Verselensis, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus (incomplete), Spectacula contemplacionis secundum assensum sex graduum, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia, Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi)

price 53s. iiii.d. (f. 4).The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Egwine at Evesham, Worcestershire (see above).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1019' (f. 3), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Pen-flourished initial 'D'(e)., Epistola Dyonisii ad Polycarpum (f. 1v), added subject index preceding Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia (ff. 47v-51), sections of William of Auxerre's Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi) added to fill lacunae (ff. 80-81, 127-158v)

price 53s. iiii.d. (f. 4).The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Egwine at Evesham, Worcestershire (see above).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1019' (f. 3), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost)., Epistola Dyonisii ad Polycarpum (f. 1v), added subject index preceding Pseudo-Dionysius' Mystica theologia (ff. 47v-51), sections of William of Auxerre's Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi) added to fill lacunae (ff. 80-81, 127-158v)

price 53s. iiii.d. (f. 4).The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Egwine at Evesham, Worcestershire (see above).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1019' (f. 3), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Initial 'D'(olor) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Sermons of Ephraim Syrus., Sermons, theological and historical works

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 4v) and in the 1698 catalogue

• Coloured initial 'G'(loria) and rubric., Sermons, theological and historical works

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 4v) and in the 1698 catalogue

• Initial 'R'(ogo) with decoration extended with the outline of a man's head in profile., Sermons, theological and historical works

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 4v) and in the 1698 catalogue

• Miniature in four registers at the end of the prologue to the Psalter: the Crucifixion, the Martyrdom of Thomas of Canterbury, the Virgin instructing Thomas to wear a hair shirt and, in the same register, Christ coming to Thomas, and Christ standing before Thomas, in the lower register. Illuminated initial 'D'(avid) with a hybrid, at the beginning of the prologue to the Psalter., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'S'(anctum) and 'I'(onas) with a dog, human heads and marginal extensions containing hybrids, at the beginning of the prologues to Jonah, and a historiated initial 'E'(t factum est), of Nineveh in the upper register and Jonah in the mouth of the fish, in the lower register, at the beginning of Jonah., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) of Jerome, dressed in grey habit, sitting at a desk in the act of writing, holding pen and knife, with marginal drolleries and hybrids, and four pairs of figures standing on columns: Franciscans (top left), Dominicans (top right), Pied Friars or Trinitarians? (bottom left) and Carmelites (bottom right), at the beginning of the prologue., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation and the scenes of Adam and Eve cycle: the Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with the Crucifixion in the lower register, at the beginning of Genesis. Full border with hunting scenes, an animal parody of a bishop and cleric, birds and hybrids., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (The 'Bible of William of Devon')

of Devon') Written by William of Devon: his colophon, 'Will[elmu]s devoniensis scripsit istum / librum/' (f. 540v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 972' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (imperfect)

1642 (see Warner, Gilson, 1921, p. 14) (f. 1).Notes in English, 17th century? (ff. 277v, 423).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Days of Creation France, Central France, Central (Paris)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation with three medallions, of the creation of fishes, of the creation of man and woman, and of God the Creator, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (imperfect)

1642 (see Warner, Gilson, 1921, p. 14) (f. 1).Notes in English, 17th century? (ff. 277v, 423).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Days of Creation France, Central France, Central (Paris)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation with four medallions, of the creation of fishes, of the creation of man and woman, of God the Creator, and of the Crucifixion, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (imperfect)

1642 (see Warner, Gilson, 1921, p. 14) (f. 1).Notes in English, 17th century? (ff. 277v, 423).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Days of Creation France, Central France, Central (Paris)

• Pen-flourished initial 'E'(rat) with an I-border, at the beginning of Ruth 2:1., Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew names (imperfect)

in 1642 (see Warner, Gilson, 1921, p. 14) (f. 1).Notes in English, 17th century? (ff. 277v, 423).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page France, Central France, Central (Paris)