• Text page with inventory of relics at Exeter: 'These are the names of the holy saints, which are in the monastery of St Peter and St Mary, Exeter . . .'. The list begins with relics of Christ's blood, his cross, tomb, and clothing. The list also enumerates a part of St Peter's beard and St Andrew's walking-stick., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

his cross, tomb, and clothing. The list also enumerates a part of St Peter's beard and St Andrew's walking-stick. OldEnglish and Latin glosses in the same hand as the text. The same scribe may have copied Trinity College 1475

• Initial with foliate decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

Initial with foliate decoration. OldEnglish and Latin glosses in the same hand as the text. The same scribe may have copied Trinity College 1475 (see Bishop 1963).All but 43 of the glosses occur also in Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale 1650

• Initial 'I'(am) with man and a dragon enmeshed in foliage., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

Initial 'I'(am) with man and a dragon enmeshed in foliage. OldEnglish and Latin glosses in the same hand as the text. The same scribe may have copied Trinity College 1475 (see Bishop 1963).All but 43 of the glosses occur

• Decorated initial 'G'(lorisissimo), the ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Pater, Gloucester, and the Old Royal press-mark 'no. 965'., Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, with preface and tables of chapters, imperfect at the end

abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester: inscribed in the 14th century: 'Liber monasterii S. Petri Glouc.' (f. 2). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 965' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Text page with initials and rubrics., De vita contemplativa et activa

ed. by David M. Smith and Vera London (Cambridge: University Press, 1972-2001), I (p. 64), II (p. 62).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 694 '. Included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Following the numbered list of chapters (some of the numbers are visible through the parchment in the right-hand column), the start of the main text is introduced by a large red initial 'B' and opening words in capital letters (now darkened to a silvery black, due to oxidisation)., Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, with preface and tables of chapters, imperfect at the end

abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester: inscribed in the 14th century: 'Liber monasterii S. Petri Glouc.' (f. 2). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 965' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Decorated initial 'I'(n illo tempore) with interlace and foliate motifs., Homiliary, temporal (from Septuagesima to Easter Eve) (index Homiliae). At the end are added in a 12th-century hand, two pieces in verse, 'De Corpore et Sanguine Domini', beginning, 'Mysterio magno legali vescimur agno' (f. 170v), and 'Crimina deploret sua sic peccator et oret', beginning, 'Quo pius et pietas Deus a te pulsus abibo' (f. 171).

in fraudem deleverit anathema sit. Amen' (f. 172, early 14th century); a similar inscription, 15th century (f. 5).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 383' (f. 5), included in the inventory of books in the

• Added drawings of the symbols of the four Evangelists, leaf and scroll ornament, labelled 'vinea Domini', part of a Latin alphabet and runes., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

part of a Latin alphabet and runes. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Text page at the beginning of the list of chapter headings., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

beginning of the list of chapter headings. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Marginal drawing of pointed and circular shapes., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

Marginal drawing of pointed and circular shapes. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(C) at the beginning of Book V, Chapter i., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

the beginning of Book V, Chapter i. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Text page with marginal geometric drawings., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

Text page with marginal geometric drawings. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.

• Text page with marginal geometric drawing., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

Text page with marginal geometric drawing. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(eft) with two creatures and vine interlace patterns at the beginning of Book IV, Chapter i., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

the beginning of Book IV, Chapter i. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Zoomorphic initial (A)'E'(ft) with four heads and interlaced bodies at the beginning of Book III, Chapter i., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

the beginning of Book III, Chapter i. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Zoomorphic initial 'U'(re) with 3 heads and interlaced bodies at the beginning of Book I, Chapter i., Historum adversum paganos (the 'Tollemache, Helmingham, or Lauderdale Orosius')

the beginning of Book I, Chapter i. Composed by an anonymous West Saxon author between 870 and 930, the OldEnglish version of Orosius's history was adapted from the Latin text (possibly a glossed copy such as St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek,

• Text pages containing incantations of Irish origin with an added inscription in Old English (f. 40v); formulae of confession and absolution (f. 41)., Extracts from the Gospels and prayers ('The Book of Nunnaminster')

Text pages containing incantations of Irish origin with an added inscription in OldEnglish (f. 40v); formulae of confession and absolution (f. 41). One of a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks of the "Tiberius" group, the others being Harley 7653, and

• Inscription about the manuscript’s Canterbury provenance, with an Old Royal Library seal of a ship in the bottom right corner., Etymologiae

Canterbury provenance, with an Old Royal Library seal of a ship in the bottom right corner. Preceded by letters between Isidore and Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (ff. 2-3v). Initials in red, green, purple, or yellow, some with arabesque decoration (ff.

• Detail of the figures highlighted in green, in the chapter 'De figuris'., Etymologiae

(see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8603).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Figures Written probably by three scribes Isidore England

• Text page., Etymologiae

[Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8603).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Written probably by three scribes Isidore England