• Miniature of a unicorn., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Miniature of hedgehogs rolling on grapes to impale them on their spines., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Miniature of an eagle with its young in a nest on top of a tree., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• null, Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• null, Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Miniature of a crocodile., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Detail of a miniature of a manticore, a creature with the body of a lion, the head of a man, and the tail of a scorpion., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Detail of a miniature of birds and a fox pretending to be dead, in the upper register, and a fox with a bird in its mouth, in the lower register., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Detail of a miniature in two registers: above, wolves; below: a man standing on a garment, and birds in a nest., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Detail of a foliate initial 'B'(estiarium), at the beginning of the text., Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149)

the same hand, 15th century (f.151v).Added verses in English beginning, 'He that wyll all parell flee / He must with wysdome armyd be...', 15th century (f. 152).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 519' (f.

• Detail of a miniature of a phoenix burning, illustrating the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again from the ashes., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again from

• Miniature of eagles, one holding a fish, illustrating the text that when it is young the eagle can see fish in the sea from a great height; but when it gets old its eyes become dim, so it flies towards the sun and burns off the dimness, before immersing itself in water, which restores it to full strength and perfect eyesight., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

the eagle can see fish in the sea from a great height; but when it gets old its eyes become dim, so it flies towards the sun and burns off the dimness, before immersing itself in water, which restores it

• Miniature of eagles, one holding a fish, illustrating the text that when it is young the eagle can see fish in the sea from a great height; but when it gets old its eyes become dim, so it flies towards the sun and burns off the dimness, before immersing itself in water, which restores it to full strength and perfect eyesight., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

the eagle can see fish in the sea from a great height; but when it gets old its eyes become dim, so it flies towards the sun and burns off the dimness, before immersing itself in water, which restores it

• Miniature of a phoenix biting a branch, and below, burning, illustrating the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again from the ashes., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

illustrating the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again

• Decorated initial 'A'(pud) at the beginning of the Commentary on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms

St. Mary and St. Benedict, Ramsey: inscribed on a pasted piece of parchment, 'Liber monasterii Rameseye' (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1289' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(anctus) formed of a dragon, with foliate decoration, display script, and pen-flourishing in the margin, at the beginning of the prologue to the commentary on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms 1-50

liber s[anc]ti Albani q[ue]m q[ui] ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit' 13th or 14th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'prima quinquagena Pulli s[upe]r psalteriu[m]', and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1359' (f. 1),

• Inhabited initial 'I'(n principio) with lions, at the beginning of Diatessaron., Diatessaron (or Unum ex quatuor), with glosses

Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 6v (see Carley 2000). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 895' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus), at the beginning of Psalm 1, and two initials 'P'(rimus) and 'A'(biit) with penwork extensions, at the beginning of gloss divisions, and a drawing of a hand in the margin., Psalter, glossed, with 5 Canticles

/ ut Deus ignoscat, et parcat lampadis ori./', end of the 12th century (f. 137).Erased inscription (f. 137).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 695' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Inhabited initial 'P'(ur) with lions interlaced with a foliate scroll, at the beginning of the Roman de Rou., Roman de Rou, part 2

VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: the monogram 'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 389' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'D'(ominica) of a dragon, at the beginning of the commentary for the first Sunday of the Advent., Commentary on lections from the Epistles and Gospels from Advent to Easter

century.Added musical notation in the margin, one with the antiphon 'Avertet dominus captivitatem plebis sue' (ff. 245, 252v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1324' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after