• Decorated initial 'F'(usca) at the beginning of book 2 of Origen's commentary., Commentary on the Song of Solomon (ff. 1-93v); De institutione clericorum (ff. 94-118v)

red and green with foliate or geometric penwork decoration at the beginning of the preface or books, and texts (ff. 1, 30, 64, 94, 95v). Large and small initials in green or red, a few with simple penwork decoration. Headings

• Decorated initial 'E'(cce) at the beginning of book 3 of Origen's commentary., Commentary on the Song of Solomon (ff. 1-93v); De institutione clericorum (ff. 94-118v)

red and green with foliate or geometric penwork decoration at the beginning of the preface or books, and texts (ff. 1, 30, 64, 94, 95v). Large and small initials in green or red, a few with simple penwork decoration. Headings

• Text pages of the beginning of chapter 4 of the De laudibus virginitatis of Aldhelm., De laudibus virginitatis

of Aldhelm. Includes capitula written by a different hand (ff. 3-7). The flyleaves, ff. 1, 120 are two leaves of the original manuscript substituted in the 11th century with ff. 116-117. 2 large initials in colours with zoomorphic and interlace

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek army., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of a battle between Greeks and Trojans., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of Priam and another king in tents., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of negotiations for peace., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the murder of Agamemnon., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Aegisthus., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Philisthenes and Menelippus., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Detail of a miniature of the death of Telegonus., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• Drawing of Aldhelm standing at a lectern with a book opened on the first words of his treatise 'Iam / dudu[m] / ad pon/tifica/le pro/ficisce[n]s', with an inscription 'S. ALDELM[US] EPC'., De laudibus virginitatis

pon/tifica/le pro/ficisce[n]s', with an inscription 'S. ALDELM[US] EPC'. Includes capitula written by a different hand (ff. 3-7). The flyleaves, ff. 1, 120 are two leaves of the original manuscript substituted in the 11th century with ff. 116-117. 2 large initials

• Decorated initial 'R'(everentissimis) with animal heads and interlace decoration, at the beginning of the prologue to the De laudibus virginitatis of Aldhelm., De laudibus virginitatis

De laudibus virginitatis of Aldhelm. Includes capitula written by a different hand (ff. 3-7). The flyleaves, ff. 1, 120 are two leaves of the original manuscript substituted in the 11th century with ff. 116-117. 2 large initials in colours with

• Decorated initial 'I'(am) with animal heads and interlace decoration, at the beginning of the De laudibus virginitatis of Aldhelm., De laudibus virginitatis

laudibus virginitatis of Aldhelm. Includes capitula written by a different hand (ff. 3-7). The flyleaves, ff. 1, 120 are two leaves of the original manuscript substituted in the 11th century with ff. 116-117. 2 large initials in colours with zoomorphic

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatissimo), with animals and grotesques, at the beginning of the Life of St. Gregory., Life of St Gregory

the form of red letters in the alphabet order, in the lower margin of each first folio of the quire. 1 zoomorphic initial in brown and red of Wormald's type I with a large mask head and interlace decoration, at

• Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of Psalm 1 opening the breviary, and two smaller initials with penwork decoration: 'Q'(uare) and 'D'(omine), at the beginings of Psalms 2 and 3., Breviary

decoration, at the beginning of Psalm 1 opening the breviary, and two smaller initials with penwork decoration: 'Q'(uare) and 'D'(omine), at the beginings of Psalms 2 and 3. Includes a calendar with Easter tables (ff. 1v-8), noting the feast of

• Decorated initial 'E'(go)., Chronicle

smaller decorated initials, in colours (ff. 1, 10, 38v, 76, 111). Smaller and small initials in plain red or blue, some with penwork decoration in blue or red. Cadels. Chronicle Inscribed in red, 15th century: '1298 in tegernse [Tegernsee, in

• Coloured letters., A fragment of Book 5.19-20 of the Historia ecclesiastica

Book 5.19-20 of the Historia ecclesiastica Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, inventory no. 67205: inscription in pencil '67205' (f. 1); small fragment afflixed to an unfoliated flyleaf with the number 67205.Purchased in 1943 by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund

• Initial 'W' decorated with the zoomorphic motif of a dragon., 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

• Initial 'W' decorated with the image of Agnus Dei (index lamb in glory)., 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