• Detail of illuminated initial., Psalms (ff. 7-146); Canticles (ff. 146-157v); Litany, Petitions and Collects (ff. 157v-161)

large gold initials with foliate decoration in colours on a blue wash background (f. 7, 54v, 100v, 114v) at Psalms 1, 51, 101, and 109. Large initials in red, blue, yellow, or green, most with foliate and other patterned decoration

• Detail of illuminated initial., Psalms (ff. 7-146); Canticles (ff. 146-157v); Litany, Petitions and Collects (ff. 157v-161)

large gold initials with foliate decoration in colours on a blue wash background (f. 7, 54v, 100v, 114v) at Psalms 1, 51, 101, and 109. Large initials in red, blue, yellow, or green, most with foliate and other patterned decoration

• Miniature of a hunting scene., Account of the Norman noblemen who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066; a treatise on Elizabethan heraldry and genealogy; and an account on the Court of Queen Elizabeth

large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 32). Smaller and small decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials also in gold on red or blue grounds. Line fillers decorated in gold on red, blue, or green grounds,

• Painted binding with hunting scenes., Account of the Norman noblemen who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066; a treatise on Elizabethan heraldry and genealogy; and an account on the Court of Queen Elizabeth

large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 32). Smaller and small decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials also in gold on red or blue grounds. Line fillers decorated in gold on red, blue, or green grounds,

• Decorated initial 'M'(arcus) at the beginning of the prologue., Glossed Mark

is a parchment leaf with a 15th-century inscription. Large puzzle initials in blue and red and red and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 2). Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in brown. Marginal decoration in brown, including of a bird

• List of books headed 'Books of the big bookcase'. Rubrics separate lists of books by Ambrose, High of St.-Victor, and Anselm, while others are grouped as glossed books or small books (the latter perhaps on shallower shelves). Eight lines down in the second column is recorded two copies of Mark, glossed: presumably one of them is the present manuscript., Glossed Mark

is a parchment leaf with a 15th-century inscription. Large puzzle initials in blue and red and red and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 2). Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in brown. Marginal decoration in brown, including of a bird

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with a coat of arms featuring a bird on gold ground, at the beginning of the Psalms., Breviary, Franciscan use

large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and black pen flourishing. Smaller initials in blue with red pen flourishing or red with black pen flourishing. Numerous small initials in red or blue. Breviary, Franciscan use Half-erased inscription; post-medieval

• 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'(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.

• 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

• 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,