• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(postate) of a tonsured ex-cleric, armed with a sword and a shield and his black habit on the ground, facing an abbot., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

armed with a sword and a shield and his black habit on the ground, facing an abbot. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order.

• Puzzle initial 'A(nno), with penwork decoration in the form of leaves., Polychronicon to the year 1352, with table

with penwork decoration in the form of leaves. Puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue penwork decoration extending into the margin. Large initials in blue or red with penwork decoration, often extendinig into the margins, and in

• Puzzle initial 'A'(ppellationibus), in Bartolus de Saxoferrato's Commentary on the first and second part of the New Digest., Commentary on the first and second part of the Digestum novum

blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 55, 140, 299). Smaller and small initials in red with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing or in blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or

• Decorated initial 'A'(n) with pen-flourishing., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae), for 1-38 Edward III (ff. 1-77), and other legal texts, imperfect

contents, see ~Catalogue~ 1808. Large initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs extending into the borders on all sides (f. 1). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs and flowers

• Initial 'Q'(uae), and 'I'(erarchia) in blue, red, and green with penwork decoration, in Hugh of Saint Victor's Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Celestial Hierarchy., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Celestial Hierarchy

67-72. Large gold initials, some with foliate decoration in blue, red, and green and zoomorphic features (ff. 6v, 42). Large initials with penwork decoration in red, blue and green. Small blue initials with red penwork decoration. Straight red lines around

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

infill of blue penwork. Along the top and left margins are two faint blue lines extending from the capital across the folio and flanked either side by red, and blue penwork motifs forming a two-sided border. A blue trefoil leaf