• Puzzle initial 'P'(rimi) at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber exceptionum., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

Historia scholastica of Peter Comestor (ff. 9-160v), the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles (ff. 160v-181v), with added tables of content of both texts, in a later hand (ff. 3-8), and the Liber exceptionum ofRichardof Saint-Victor (ff.

• Decorated initial 'H'., Life of Bede

(ff. 28, 28v). Life of Bede Added notes and glosses in English hands, 10th and 11th centuries: see Gameson.? Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury in 1604, former treasurer of St Paul's, canon of Westminster, and bishop of London: inscribed 'for

• Initial 'A'(mici) with pen-flourishing (added in the ?16th/17th century) forming a partial foliate border including a bird., Epistulae and other works

1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Ambrose England

• Puzzle-initial 'T'(ranscriptum) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of Robert Grosseteste's translation of Tertullian, 'Testamentum XII patriarcharum'., Testamentum XII patriarcharum (ff. 1-15); Beniamin minor, in verse (ff. 15-20); Elucidarius (ff. 20v-34v)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Text page Tertullian, translated by Robert Grosseteste (ff. 1-15); Richardof

• Coloured initial 'P'(rimus) at the beginning of notes on the compotus, and below, an added list of the archbishops of Canterbury., Treatise on the compotus, 'Ratio Gai cesaris de ordine anni', instructions for the discovery of the age of the moon, a table of moveable feasts, and other texts

margin, f. 1).Addition of an 11th-12th century list of the Archbishops of Canterbury, Augustine- Anselm (consecrated 1093), with additions down to Richardof Dover (consecrated 1174) (f. 34).Mid-12th century addition of twelve lines of verses (f. 18).Note of a flood

• Explicit of the first text: 'Explicit liber q[ue] intitulatur liber niger qui fuit inventus cu[m] cruce magna de Waltham S[an]c]t]e Crucis'., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany' ; beginning and end imperfect), part 2

1933). A terminus post quem is provided by a poem written in one of the original hands lamenting the death of the ninth abbot of Waltham, Richardof Hertford, who died in 1345 (Harley 3776, ff. 38v-39).Added later medieval foliation

• Coloured initials in a text page of the chronicle., Chronicle, AD 1-1135 (ff. 34-61), with additions up to 1266 (ff. 61v-73)

formed by manuscripts of different date and origin and includes:'Gui de Warewic', romance in Anglo-Norman verse, with initials in red, last quarter of the 13th or 1st quarter of the 14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose

• Decorated initial 'P'(rimo)., Commentary on the Song of Songs, followed by other texts (ff. 2-104v); Commentary on Acts of the Apostles (ff. 105-152v); Commentary on Catholic Epistles (ff. 153-222); Homiliae (ff. 223-251); Commentary on Tobit (ff. 252-258)

The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Benedict, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire; Robert Gotham: inscribed, 15th century 'liber rameseye Roberti Gotham' (f. 258v): for this type of inscription see Richard Sharpe, ~English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues~, Corpus of British Medieva

• Initial 'A'(udiens) with foliate decoration., Gesta Normannorum ducum

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Symeon of Durham and two continental scribes Symeon of

• Drawing of a diagram of the vision of Claudius Senator, and a drawing of a diagram of 'labarum Constantini.', Translation of Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum, and Suidas De probatione Virginitatis Beate Marie

Drawing of a diagram of the vision of Claudius Senator, and a drawing of a diagram of 'labarum Constantini.' Part I Includes the Historia scholastica of Peter Comestor (ff. 9-160v), the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles (ff. 160v-181v),