• Decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with dragons and an animal head, display capitals, and full border, at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

symbols of the Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink in the calendar (ff. 2-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13), and 2 decorated foliate initials (ff. 53, 85), all in colours and accompanied by coloured

• Decorated initials and borders, with angels supporting heraldic arms., 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

with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 2, 32). 3 three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 4, 49, 126). 1 partial border, in colours (f. 57). 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f.

• Decorated initial 'P'(rebuerat) at the beginning of book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses, imperfect

a parchment flyleaf. f. 118 is an unwritten flyleaf. 2 leaves missing after f. 11, 1 after f. 59 (see Munari 1957).Some outer margins have been excised.Quire marks. Large initial and red and brown ink with penwork decoration in the

• Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

signatures. 1 added coloured drawing of the Creation inserted within a blank space between the summaries of Genesis and the beginning of Genesis. The Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed 'Biblioteca ecclesie Christi', 13th century (vol. II, Royal 1

• Zoomorphic initial 'M'(agnitudo) in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a grotesque(s)., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

shape of a grotesque(s). Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis'

• Zoomorphic initial 'I' in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a bird., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

shape of a bird. Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis'

• Decorated initials 'Q'(uattuor) and 'B'(ello) at the beginning of the text., Antiquitates iudaicae

century (?) hand Initials in colours with penwork decoration at the beginning of the prologue and the five books (ff. 1, 22, 30v, 40, 49). 3 small initials in red and one in blue (ff. 49, 53, 64, 66). Rubrics

• Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

signatures. 1 added coloured drawing of the Creation inserted within a blank space between the summaries of Genesis and the beginning of Genesis. The Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed 'Biblioteca ecclesie Christi', 13th century (vol. II, Royal 1

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(auci) with grotesque and knot-work motifs, at the beginning of Jerome's 'Contra Iouinianum'., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis' and the 'Hypomnesticon' is

• Detail of a decorated initial 'P'., Theological texts

but mostly unfinished and left in different stages of execution (ff. 5-55v, 109), at the beginning of books and chapters. 1 space left for an initial (f. 41v) and numerous initials in red, brown or green, some with penwork decoration

• Coloured initials., Frontinus's 'Strategemata', Books 1-4, imperfect at the beginning and the end (ff. 1-50v), Eutropius's 'Breviarium ab urbe condita', Books 1-10 (ff. 55v-109)

Coloured initials. This copy of 'Strategemata' belongs to the Anglo-Norman family, which also includes Cambridge, Peterhouse, 252.iii (11th-12th century, northern France) and Oxford, Lincoln College, lat. 100 (written by William at Malmesbury c. 1125), according to unpublished notes of

• Puzzle initial 'V'(oluntas) and flourished border at the beginning of the Similitudines Anselmi., Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters

1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Archbishop Anselm’s Similitudes, Compleat/Wrote about Anno Domini 1400 in the Court Hand’, f. 1); for similar notations see Burney 39, 288, 307 (?), 320, 323, and Additional 18601.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• 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).

flyleaves, are from a 13th-century manuscript of the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor. ff. 3, 4 should follow f. 176. 1 large initial in brown ink with interlace and foliate motifs (f. 5). Initials in red, some large, some small.

• Decorated initial 'I'(initum) with interlace patterns at the beginning of Mark., Gospels (ff. 1-139) and capitulare evangeliorum (ff. 139v-150)

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724.' (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uid) formed by two dragons biting each other's tails, at the beginning of homily 9 in the second book of Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel., Homilies on Ezekiel

Feb 1804' in ink, f. 3, upper margin, and initials 'TBR', on the Topham bookplate, and inscription: 'Ent d/, f. 1; for a similar signature (‘Thomas Bryan Richards, 2 May 1801’), note, and inscription 'Entd/ 291' see Burney 321, f.

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uid) formed by two dragons biting each other's tails, at the beginning of homily 9 in the second book of Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel., Homilies on Ezekiel

Feb 1804' in ink, f. 3, upper margin, and initials 'TBR', on the Topham bookplate, and inscription: 'Ent d/, f. 1; for a similar signature (‘Thomas Bryan Richards, 2 May 1801’), note, and inscription 'Entd/ 291' see Burney 321, f.

• Detail of marginal drawing of a man., Domesday book (ends imperfectly)

'John Hemys(?), John hill(?), John tomson(?), Robard Ward(?)' (f. 82).John McCarthy(?), 16th century: inscribed his name (f. 72v).Added tabula (f. 1) signed by Thomas Gale (b. 1635 or 1646, d. 1702), dean of York and antiquary.? Thomas Howard (b. 1585,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) with geometric patterns, an animal head terminal, and marginal gesturing priest., Lives of Saints, imperfect (6 December to 17 January)

Decorated initial 'I'(n) with geometric patterns, an animal head terminal, and marginal gesturing priest. Musical notation (f. 52, added to the lower margin). Numerous large initials in brown with penwork decoration in brown and sometimes red, including interlace patterns,

• Decorated initial with bird and animal head., Lives of Saints, imperfect (6 December to 17 January)

Decorated initial with bird and animal head. Musical notation (f. 52, added to the lower margin). Numerous large initials in brown with penwork decoration in brown and sometimes red, including interlace patterns, animal or human heads, birds, and accompanying

• Diagrams of star signs., Treatise on the astrolabe

see Winstanley and Hunt.James Orchard Halliwell- [Phillipps] (b. 1820, d. 1889), antiquary and literary scholar: his stamp 'Bibliotheca Halliwelliana' (f. 1); catalogued for sale, 27 June 1840, lot 39, but withdrawn, along with the other manuscripts, all but one of