• Decorated letters 'In'(itium) with an animal head, a clawed foot, and a heart-shaped 'tail' at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark. A later reader has added a title at the top of the page ('Marcus') and numbered the chapters ('.1.' in the right-hand margin)., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Decorated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) with an animal head at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Text page., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Below the end of the prologue to John is a drawing of his evangelist symbol, the eagle. A later medieval reader has added John's name above the eagle's head: 'Ioh(ann)es'., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Decorated letters 'I'(n principio) at the beginning of John's Gospel, with a bird-like head and claw., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Text page at the end of John., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Text page., Gospel Book, imperfect, with glosses in Irish and Latin

'The Gospels of Mael Brigte' (Harley 1802), which was written in Armagh in 1138.Corrections in an English 12th-century hand in the margins.Additions in an English 15th-century hand of page headings to the first two Gospels and chapter numeration.Edward Stillingfleet (b.

• Detail of illuminated initial., Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v)

brown. Spaces for coloured initials left blank after f. 90. Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v) Unidentified English owner, 13th century: with annotations in leadpoint throughout.The benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, 14th century: its characteristic title

• Detail of decorated initial., Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v)

brown. Spaces for coloured initials left blank after f. 90. Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v) Unidentified English owner, 13th century: with annotations in leadpoint throughout.The benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, 14th century: its characteristic title

• Decorated initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of the book Ezra., Job and Ezra, with prologues

sketch of Christ on the Cross, 12th century (back flyleaf). Job and Ezra, with prologues Re-written and restored by an English hand, of the Canterbury type, in the second half of the 10th century, according to Gameson.? Thomas Howard (b.

• Heading in display capitals, and the first word 'Vir' in colours, at the beginning of the book of Job., Job and Ezra, with prologues

sketch of Christ on the Cross, 12th century (back flyleaf). Job and Ezra, with prologues Re-written and restored by an English hand, of the Canterbury type, in the second half of the 10th century, according to Gameson.? Thomas Howard (b.

• Historiated initial 'H'(omo) with a physician bleeding a man, and a full foliate border including a grotesque, a bird, and heraldic arms, at the beginning of Bernard de Gordon's Liber de Flora., Medical treatises, including works of Bernard de Gordon

marks in plain red or blue. Medical treatises, including works of Bernard de Gordon Unidentified owner: arms (f. 270).Inscription in English, 16th-century(?) (f. 372v).Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698), apothecary and physician: inscribed 'Bern. 113.' (f. 1*).Sir Hans Sloane (b.

• Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) with a lecturer holding a urine flask before students, and a full foliate border with animals, at the beginning of Bernard de Gordon's Liber urinarum., Medical treatises, including works of Bernard de Gordon

marks in plain red or blue. Medical treatises, including works of Bernard de Gordon Unidentified owner: arms (f. 270).Inscription in English, 16th-century(?) (f. 372v).Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698), apothecary and physician: inscribed 'Bern. 113.' (f. 1*).Sir Hans Sloane (b.

• Decorated initial 'H'., Life of Bede

Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around 635, he entered the monastery of Melrose in 651, and later became guest-master

• Marginal drawing of travellers, speaking In English, in the margin of Jacobus de Voragine's life of Cecila., Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

travellers, speaking In English, in the margin of Jacobus de Voragine's life of Cecila. Rust-stains from a chain-staple (?) at the lower edge of the front flyleaves (ff. [iii-]iv]). 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and

• Text page., Fragments of a philosophical work

of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), pp. 240, 242).All parts:Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page England

• Detail of a text page., Fragments of a philosophical work

of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), pp. 240, 242).All parts:Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page England

• 'Reserve' initial 'E'(piphaniam) in brown with foliate decoration in green and red., Fragment of a leaf from a late 12th century English Sequentiary containing sequences for the Circumcision and the Epiphany

square B clefs). The original recto has been misplaced as verso. Fragment of a leaf from a late 12th century English Sequentiary containing sequences for the Circumcision and the Epiphany John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716), bookseller and antiquary: part

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature and foliage., Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John

Decorated initial with a hybrid creature and foliage. f. 1 is a small parchment fragment of a charter or deed in English.The first leaf of this manuscript is bound in Harley 5958, f. 87. 1 large initial in red

• Decorated initial 'P'(raeterea)., Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect

or purple. Numbers in red. Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect The cathedral priority of St Andrew, Rochester: 12th or 13th-century inscription 'Liber Sancti Andree Roffensis ecclesiae' (f.