• Inhabited initial 'V'(espe), with birds, dragons, and the face of Christ in a roundel., Homiliary

with entwined animals and head terminals. Large initials in red, green, yellow, purple, or blue, some with penwork decoration. Small initials in brown, green or blue. Rubrics in red. Homiliary The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: liturgical evidence; corresponds

• Inhabited initial 'P'(rimo) with animals and animal and human-head terminals., Homiliary

with entwined animals and head terminals. Large initials in red, green, yellow, purple, or blue, some with penwork decoration. Small initials in brown, green or blue. Rubrics in red. Homiliary The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: liturgical evidence; corresponds

• Decorated initial ''Q'(uanta) at the beginning of a collection of Seneca's letters., Letters, some extracts

17 lots were purchased subsequently for £2 9s. 6d (Egerton 710-730). Large initial in blue with red penwork decoration (f. 1). Large plain initials in red, blue or green, a few with penwork decoration in one other colour (e.g. ff.

• Decorated initial 'L'(iber) with display capitals, at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew., Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v)

initial, in colours and gold (f. 3). Large initials alternating red, blue, or pale brown, usually with simple decoration in one of the other colours. Small initials alternating red, blue, or pale brown. Spaces for coloured initials left blank after

• Decorated initial 'C'(um) at Matthew 1:18., Glossed Gospel of Matthew, preceded by prologues (f. 2r-v)

initial, in colours and gold (f. 3). Large initials alternating red, blue, or pale brown, usually with simple decoration in one of the other colours. Small initials alternating red, blue, or pale brown. Spaces for coloured initials left blank after

• Historiated initial 'E'(rant) of Matthew's martydom while kneeling before an altar within a microarchitectural frame, with the hand of God above, and king Eoglippus looking on from the left, at the beginning of the passion of Matthew., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'M'(emoriam) with the archangel Michael spearing and standing on a dragon, at the beginning of a sermon for the dedication of the church of the archangel Michael., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Decorated initial 'I'(eronimus) with a naked man, and an archer shooting at a dog? or other quadruped, at the beginning of the life of Jerome., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uadam) with Jerome holding a closed book and gesturing to a lion who holds up its paw, with a dragon making up part of the initial, at the beginning of Jerome's miracle of the lion., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historaited initial 'I'(gitur) at the beginning of the passion of Piaton of Benevento, a third century evangelist to northern France and Belgium, with a seated monk holding a book and gesturing, probably Piaton, at the top of the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'B'(ono) at the beginning of the life of Bavo or Bavon, an early 7th-century saint, with a monk giving instructions to a boy carrying a bag, and a monk carrying a large bundle in front of building below, possibly Bavon giving away his possessions to build an abbey, and dragons or serpents entwined in the stem of the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Anthropomorphic initial ''L'(icit), made up of three men, one reclining, and another standing on the shoulders of a third and holding a large shield or circular object decorated with a flower, at the beginning of Bavo's miracles., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of a man beating a donkey with a whip and a man beating a bear with a stick, at the beginning of the passion of Leodegar., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) with Denis seated holding a staff and a book, with a naked man and a hybrid creature with a human body, horns, and goat's feet, and dragons or serpents and an animal head entwined in the form of the letter, at the beginning of the passion of Denis, Rusticus and Eleutherius. In the margin are drawings of a bust and an animal similar to those in the letter., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the life of Severinus, probably the 5th-century bishop of Bordeaux and Cologne, with an emeshed lion and dragon., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the passion of the 3rd-century brothers, Crispin and Crispinian, with one brother already beheaded, the executioner holding the head of the other in his left hand and an upraised sword in his right, and the hand of God above., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the passion of Folian, a seventh-century Irish missionary to the Franks and founder of a monastery at Fosses. The upper part of the initial shows him travelling on horseback with a companion, and the lower, his martyrdom by a swordsman., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'T'(empore) at the beginning of the passion of Caesarius. In the centre at the top of the letter, Caesarius watches Lucian (or Julian), shown as a knight, who rides to the top of a mountain and throws himself from its summit as a human sacrifice in honour of Apollo (here only the horse is shown falling). To the left is a roundel of a Lucian offering a sacrifice of an animal, and to the right, spectators watching the suicide. In the panel below, Caesarius is before a seated priest of Apollo being judged for sorcery, and in the lower roundel Caesarius has been sewn into a sack and is being thrown into the sea from a boat., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of the passion of Eustace, with a seated monk eating pies being held in a large bowl by a devil., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,

• Historiated initial 'T'(empo) made up of a man with outstretched arms holding two harps and blowing on a recorder, with a man playing a viol below, at the beginning of the passion of Claudius, Nicostratus, Symphorian, Castorius, and Simplicius, who were martyred under Emperor Diocletian in the late 3rd or early 4th century., Passionale (Lives of the Saints) 21 September- 9 November

MS Fell 2. Large historiated, anthropomorphic, or decorated initials at the beginning of each life or passion, mostly in green, blue, purple, and sometimes red or yellow, usually with geometric or foliate decoration, and some also with men, hybrid creatures,