• Will of King Alfred; Resting-places of Saints, &c.

is Caroline. d is Caroline. f is insular. g is insular. r is insular. Long s is insular. Initials are blue, deep purple, green or red. There are full-page drawings on fols 6rv, 7 ( Ker 1957 , p. 340).

• Glosses to Herbarius of Pseudo-Apuleius

. macrons and ˥ are used. Coloured illustrations of plants are included at the beginning of each section, in red, blue green, brown, pink, orange, yellow and white. The illustrations are not completed from the middle of fol. 36v onwards,

• Chronicle

1996 , p. xiv). Otho. C. I, vol 2 , fols 62-139v/5 ( Gameson 2005 , p. 103) Initials in blue and red up to 794 the initial A of Anno probably in a later style than the text and

• Liber de medicina, compoto, et astronomia, including Latin-OE herbal glossary

Soc. ii, pl. 125 shows fol. 83) Extensive use of red rubrics and capitals, with the use of green, red, blue and violet in items 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14 and 19 ( Doane and Rollason 2000 , p.

• Computistica; Astronomica; Pontifical; Homilies

scias q u ota sit luna Latin Red and green frame to text. Blue frame to table. The lines of the table are in yellow, red, blue or green. Henel 1934 , pp. 44-45. fols 2va/1-27 Bede, De temporibus ,

• Continuous gloss, etc., to Arundel Psalter

at the top. descenders often turn to the left. macrons are wavy. Probably in 1099 Probably at Winchester Red or blue initials begin each psalm. Large decorated initials on fols 13r, 53r and 85r, and a full-page illustration of Christ

• Annotations to an Illustrated Old English Hexateuch

capital O, and capitulum-shaped run-over insertion marks, see the latter folios of Vespasian D. xiv . Text initials in green, blue, orange and turquoise with different coloured borders, apparently striving for variety and non-repetition on each opening. The manuscript contains

• Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc.

illustrations are included in the Medicina de quadrupedibus (see, de Vriend 1984 , p. xvi). Capitals in alternating red and blue (see, Doane 1994 , p. 22). Rebound in 1977. The manuscript has been ascribed to several places. James 1903

• Ecclesiastical institutes, &c.

slightly upwards to left and downwards to right. Abbreviations notable include b with line through it for 'biscop'. Initials in blue, red and green. Titles in red rustic capitals. Rebound in 1953; the previous binding was eighteenth-century. According to Ker

• 'St. Wulstan's Homiliary', part 2

of a text is also in metallic red; sometimes [...] in rustic capitals filled with green. Initials are metallic red, blue and green, except in the first quire (fols 1-8) where they are red or metallic red' ( Franzen 1998

• Old English Glosses, Names and Charms

Wallis 2007: 'Scribes and Scripts'). The colours used in the manuscript are pink, red, yellow, celadon green, dark green, pale blue, cream, golden brown and dark brown. Single colour calligraphic majuscules, sometimes with foliate or geometrical ornament, are used as

• Computistica , etc.; ~x00e6~lfric's rendering of Bede's De temporibus anni

the saints in pen drawing is coloured in red and green (fols 122v-23r). Capital letters are red, green, black and blue. Some rubrics are in red. At least Part A was written at Christ Church, Canterbury ( Ker 1957 ,

• Continuous gloss to the Quicumque vult written in the Leofric Psalter

split at the end. Fols 1r-6v Red, green, blue and brown ink is used for the calendar. Initials and some rubrics of the psalter are alternately green, red, metallic red and blue. Some initials are very elaborate: for example, the

• Homilies

is open, and seems to depict an opening with an illustration on the verso (coloured in a purplish ink) with blue on verso. Other apostles hold closed books, with the left-most apostles holding books with covered hands (the hand in

• A: Regularis concordia ; Bede, De die judicii B: Homilies by ~x00e6~lfric and Wulfstan, Apollonius, laws &c.

long and almost horizontal. corrections are by interlinear addition, indicated with a comma. Litterae notabiliores are in green, red and blue. Rubrics are in red rustic capitals. Rebound in 1948. The previous binding was 18th-century ( Ker 1957 , p.

• ~x00e6~lfric's Grammar and Glossary

within the text are often coloured in check the colour throughout. Drage says: two=line high initials in orange, green or blue at the beginning of sections, initials in text are often touched with orange; headings in orange rustic capitals and

• Gospels , etc.

in the right margin. ? Can't see it clearly. check the manuscript. The four gospel books all start with a blue large initial letter, and are subdivided into smaller sections. The colours of the decorative initial letters which indicate beginnings

• Eadwine Psalter

months do not have gold or coloured backgrounds (p. 49). Five colours are used within the calendar: yellow ochre, green, blue, red and brown. The artist of the initials is thought to be the same throughout the manuscript. As for

• Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies

g is open. There are several layers of glosses by the Tremulous Hand in Latin and English. xiii 1 Some blue initials, e.g. fol. 124v; also numerous green and red intials, often used alternately in a text (presumably to highlight