• Initial 'L'(iber) with penwork decoration and a reserved design, at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew., Gospel of Matthew, glossed (ff. 7-147), with prologues (ff. 1-6)

decoration in blue, occasionally with a reserved design. Numerous initials in red, occasionally with minor penwork decoration or with a reserved line. Some initials in blue. Rubrics in red. Some few paragraph marks in red with some blue. Gospel of

• Initial 'A'(bba) with penwork decoration., Commentary on the Song of Songs (ff. 1-52); Regula S. Benedicti (ff. 52-84)

(f. 54v). Some large and several smaller initials in blue, red or green. Display script in red or blue for letters following hree large initials (ff. 1, 52). Rubrics in red, blue or brown. Bible text in red (ff. 1v-2v).

• Initial 'A'(ngelus) with penwork decoration., Commentary on Revelation

6 large initials in red and blue, one with light brown, with penwork decoration and reserved designs including dotted lines (ff. 1, 1v, 83, 99, 108v, 127). Numerous large and small initials in blue, red, light brown or yellow (f.

• Initial 'I'(am) decorated with acanthus leaves and besants at the beginning of Book 3., De Consolatione Philosophiae (index Consolation of Philosophy)

extending into the margin on 2 sides (f. 1). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or red with purple or blue pen-flourishing. Red or blue paragraph marks. Drawing of a face in profile in ink in the loop

• Puzzle initial 'P'(uis) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs and a dog at the beginning of book 3., Lumiere as lais

dog (f. 18), a face (f. 26), a dragon (f. 68v). Coloured initials in alternating red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Lumiere as lais Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the prologue of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

Britanniae. 2 large initials in gold enclosing red and blue decoration (ff. 1v, 2v). Small initials alternately in blue with red decoration, or vice versa. Verse initials alternately in red or blue. Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) Unidentified institutional

• Decorated initials 'C'(umque) and 'K'(imbelinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

Britanniae. 2 large initials in gold enclosing red and blue decoration (ff. 1v, 2v). Small initials alternately in blue with red decoration, or vice versa. Verse initials alternately in red or blue. Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) Unidentified institutional

• Ink drawings of an autalops (antelope) with its horns caught in a shrub, an onocentaur, a hedgehog, a fox feigning death in order to catch birds, and a unicorn resting its head in the lap of a virgin, being pursued by a man with a spear., Bestiary

12. 28 drawings in brown ink, some partially painted in red, green or blue. Small initials in blue or red (the red oxidised), some of the blue with dots of green or red. Highlighting of letters in red. From f.

• null, 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

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the prologue of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

Britanniae. 2 large initials in gold enclosing red and blue decoration (ff. 1v, 2v). Small initials alternately in blue with red decoration, or vice versa. Verse initials alternately in red or blue. Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) Unidentified institutional

• Decorated initials 'C'(umque) and 'K'(imbelinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum)

Britanniae. 2 large initials in gold enclosing red and blue decoration (ff. 1v, 2v). Small initials alternately in blue with red decoration, or vice versa. Verse initials alternately in red or blue. Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) Unidentified institutional

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

is Sloane 1044 f. 78. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 5). 1 small initial in red with blue pen-flourishing (f. 5). Large and small initials in plain red. Distinctiones The

• Full page diagram of a cross outlined in red and inscribed in blue: Rex, Lex, Pax, and Lux., Gospel lectionary with collects and a calendar

initial in red (f. 105v). 4 large initials in red and/or blue (ff. 100v, 102, 105, 108v). Large initials in red, some with blue penwork decoration. Large initials in blue, some with red penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. Gospel lectionary

• Anthropomorphic initial 'I'(nter) of a standing man at the beginning of Caesarius of Arles' Homiliae X ad monachos., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Detail of an anthropomorphic initial 'I'(nter) of a standing man at the beginning of Caesarius of Arles' Homiliae X ad monachos., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Decorated initial 'S'(criptura) with foliate motifs, dragon and profile head, at the beginning of the second book of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Detail of a decorated initial 'S'(criptura) with foliate motifs, dragon and profile head, at the beginning of the second book of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(nter) of a standing dog (?) at the beginning of the first part of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'I'(nter) of a standing dog (?) at the beginning of the first part of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, books 1-9 (ff. 1v-113); Homiliae X ad monachos (ff. 113-123); shorter texts (ff. 123-125), including a letter to the antipope Clement III, the ~Ordo ad includendum masculum vel feminam~, an acrostic poem which spells out 'Gregorius' (f. 124v) and the ~Epitaphium Frederici episcopi Leodiensis~(f. 125)

red, on green and blue ground (f. 113). 1 large zoomorphic initial, outlined in red, on green and blue ground, with some yellow washes (f. 3). 8 large initials, outlined in red (partly oxidised), on green, blue and/or yellow grounds,

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(onsummatis) with two hybrids and foliate motifs, at the beginning of the 8th of John Cassian's Collationes; three smaller initials 'G'(ermanus), 'S'(erenus) and 'D'(e) with penwork decoration; simple initials in the list of chapters., Collationes of the Fathers (ff. 1v-115); Rite for the consecration of bells (ff. 115v-116).

with winged dragons, outlined in red, on green and blue grounds, with foliate motifs (ff. 26, 32). 26 large and smaller initials, outlined in red and occasionally black, on green and blue grounds, with foliate motifs and clasps (ff. 1v,