• Zoomorphic initial 'V'(erba) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of Jeremiah., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Numbers 11, attached to the cover, 9th century (see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734)).Inscribed 'Liber Petri Alfusi', referred to the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Daniel., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Numbers 11, attached to the cover, 9th century (see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734)).Inscribed 'Liber Petri Alfusi', referred to the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory

• Detail of decorated initial 'P'(lacuit)., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Detail of decorated initials., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Detail of a decorated initial 'N'(unc)., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Detail of a decorated initial 'D'(ixim)., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of historiated initial 'R'(ege) with a seated scribe labelled 'OSBEARNVS', a censing monk, animals, and animal heads., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of zoomorphic initial., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of ownership inscription., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of marginal heads of Joachim and Anne., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of marginal heads of Joseph and Mary., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Detail of marginal heads of Alpheus and Mary Cleophe., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initials 'A'(d) and 'F'(uit) at the beginning of a collection of Marian miracles., Miracles of the Virgin, a series of 41 miracles closely akin to the collection known as PEZ; with hymns to the Virgin (ff. 50-53v); Miracles in Constantinople (ff. 53v-58v)

inside upper cover, marked as f. i); his catalogue ~The Huth Library~, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III, 974: his sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1916, lot 5014, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund

• Decorated initials 'P'(lacuit), 'H'(ybernia), and 'H'(ispanicum) in Giraldus Cambrensis's Topographia Hiberniae., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Large initials 'F'(ons) and 'N'(unc) in Giraldus Cambrensis's Topographia Hiberniae., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Initial 'L'(oqui) and a partially damaged map of islands including Ireland (labelled 'Hybernia') and 'Britannia' in Giraldus Cambrensis's Topographia Hiberniae., Topography of Ireland and other works (index Topographia Hiberniae, Topographia Hibernica)

Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its bookplate, with the pencil inscription 'XIII: 1.5', f. [i] verso).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together

• Historiated initial 'R'(ege) with a seated scribe labelled 'OSBEARNVS', a censing monk, animals, and animal heads, at the beginning of Osbern's Life of St Dunstan., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Decorated initial 'D'(iximus) at the beginning of Book II of Osbern's LIfe of St Dunstan; the script perhaps by two scribes., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Initial 'I'(n) in the form of a dragon, and 'B'(eatus) with two bishops with crosiers, the lower with a closed book;and the ownership inscription: 'Liber Sancte Trinitatis de Kirkham' in the lower margin., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• initial 'P'(etisa) and three pairs of busts men and women, labelled Ioachim and Anna, Ioseph and Sancte Maria, and Alpheus and [Mary] Cleophe., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in