• Decorated initial 'P'., Medical miscellany in Old English, including the translations of the Pseudo-Apuleius's 'Herbarium', imperfect (ff. 1-66v), the Pseudo-Dioscorides's 'De herbis femininis' and 'Curae herbarum' (ff. 66v-101v), Sextus Placitus's 'Liber medicinae ex animalibus' (ff. 106v-114v), and 'Lacnunga' (ff. 130-193)

of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: owned in the early 18th century, his inscription 'Liber Humphredi Wanley' (f. 1); given by him to Robert Harley.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of

• Text page., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page with four decorated initials., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page with two decorated intials., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page with 2 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon 'wynn'., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Text page with marginalia., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f.26).Presented to the British

• Decorated initial 'Q'(ui) with a foliate motif., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

a foliate motif. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate. It

• Decorated initial 'P'(ervenit) with foliate motifs., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

with foliate motifs. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate. It

• Decorated initial 'C'(redo) and 'V'(alde) with foliate motifs., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

'V'(alde) with foliate motifs. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate.

• Decorated initials 'M'(onasterium) and 'Q'(uamvis)., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

and 'Q'(uamvis). f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate. It includes

• Decorated initial 'S') with foliate motifs., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

with foliate motifs. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate. It

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphosisis., Metamorphoses, with commentary

beginning of Ovid's Metamorphosisis. f. 1 is a former pastedown and f. 2 is a parchment flyleaf.f. 197r-v was originally blank leaf with later additions.The decorated initials are executed in a Florentine style, and the manuscript was made c. 1400

• Preface and beginning of Luke's gospel with decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) enclosing a flower., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

Breton Gospel books (see Cohen and Teviotdale 2002). The punctuation is unusual, and is similar to that found in Royal 1 A xviii: 2 dots and a comma (see McGurk and Szerwiniak 1996). Anglo-Saxon neums have been added at the

• Illuminated zoomorphic initial 'S'(ororem) in the form of a bird, at the beginning of Terences's Andria., Comediae (index Comedies), preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-27v), Eunuchus (ff. 28-57v), Heauton tirorumenos (ff. 58-87), Adelphoe (f. 87-113v), Hecyra (ff. 114-137v), Phormio (ff. 138-166v)

'S'(ororem) in the form of a bird, at the beginning of Terences's Andria. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions (f. 1). 7 large foliate initials, in colours and shell gold, at the beginnings of

• Decorate foliate initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of the Argument to Terence's Eunuchus., Comediae (index Comedies), preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-27v), Eunuchus (ff. 28-57v), Heauton tirorumenos (ff. 58-87), Adelphoe (f. 87-113v), Hecyra (ff. 114-137v), Phormio (ff. 138-166v)

Decorate foliate initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of the Argument to Terence's Eunuchus. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions (f. 1). 7 large foliate initials, in colours and shell gold, at the beginnings of

• Historiated initial 'R'(everendo) with Christ in Majesty holding a book, at the beginning of Guillelmus Durandus's Speculum juris., Speculum juris

large historiated initials with partial borders, in colours, at the beginning of the 4 books (ff. 13, 84, 198, 209v). 1 diagram on consanguinity (f. 288). Smaller inhabited (birds and beasts) or decorated initials, in colours, mostly with extensions into

• Historiated initial 'F'(ormavit) with a bishop(?) holding a book, at the beginning of Book 4 of Guillelmus Durandus's Speculum juris., Speculum juris

large historiated initials with partial borders, in colours, at the beginning of the 4 books (ff. 13, 84, 198, 209v). 1 diagram on consanguinity (f. 288). Smaller inhabited (birds and beasts) or decorated initials, in colours, mostly with extensions into

• Calendar page, with an ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, reading 'Hic est lib[er] s[an]cti Albani que qui abstulerit aut / titulum deleverit anathema sit. Amem', with a note reading 'De armariolo in choro.', Breviary

choro.' Includes a calendar with Easter tables (ff. 1v-8), noting the feast of the relics of St. Albans (27 January). 1 initial in gold with penwork decoration, at the beginning of the breviary (f. 9v). Large initials in green, blue