• null, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms. Epitome bellorum omnium

• Calendar page for March, including the translation of Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, and Tibba (6 March), Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, Tibba, and Sexburga; the petitions are the same as in other Peterborough manuscriptsAll parts:The ownership(?) inscription of a church is mostly torn away (f. 3, lower margin).Numerous obits of laymen and women are added to the calendar.? A

• Calendar page for April, including the feast of Guthlac (d. 714), hermit of Crowland, in green ink on 11 April, and his octave on 18 April., Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, Tibba, and Sexburga; the petitions are the same as in other Peterborough manuscriptsAll parts:The ownership(?) inscription of a church is mostly torn away (f. 3, lower margin).Numerous obits of laymen and women are added to the calendar.? A

• Decorated initial 'D'(isciplina), at the beginning of Book 1 of Isidore's Etymologiae., Etymologiae

IV, later extended to Henry VII, in humanistic cursive script (f. 224v).Francis Blomefield (b. 1705, d. 1752), topographical historian and Church of England clergyman: presumably acquired before 1727, while he was a student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: inscribed

• Coloured initials, and In the first column, a rubric introducing a list of 'relics which are kept in the church of St. Mary, Reading'. The first group relate to Christ (pieces of the Holy Cross and various items he had touched), the next group to the Virgin Mary, the third to patriarchs and prophets, etc., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

introducing a list of 'relics which are kept in the church of St. Mary, Reading'. The first group relate to Christ (pieces of the Holy Cross and various items he had touched), the next group to the Virgin Mary, the

• 'Coloured initials and rubric stating 'These are the books which are kept in Reading church'., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

the books which are kept in Reading church'. The charters show that the original compilation was done early in the reign of Richard 1 (1190-1199), although the booklist may have been copied between c. 1180 and c. 1191, based on

• Inscription stating that John of Dalling, monk of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, gave this book to the abbey with the permission of abbot John of Hertford, reading 'Hunc librum dedit Frater Johannes de Dal/ling ex licencia domini Joh[annis] abb[at]is deo / eccl[es]ie s[anc]ti Albani ita tamen quod habeat / usum t[antu]m in vita sua. Quem quid[em] qui ab / eadem ecc[lesie] alienaverit v[e]l titulum dele/verit anathema sit. Amen. / Anima Johannis de dalling et anime omnium fidelium defunctorum requiescant in pace. Amen/'; with a note that the book was kept in a cupboard in the choir, 'De armariolo in choro.', Psalter and Canticles

1246, 16th November, ff. 7, 153v); for St. Albans use: the calendar includes: the octave of the dedication of the church of St. Albans (4th January, f. 2), 'Festivitas reliquiarum' in gold (27th January, f. 2), the passion of Alban

• Miniature of Cuthbert miraculously discovering a roof beam for his church in the waves of the ocean, from Chapter 21 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

a roof beam for his church in the waves of the ocean, from Chapter 21 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39943.f. 20 should follow f. 21.A duplicate copy of the volume, but with

• Detail of a folio with a version of the Lord's prayer in English., Theological works in prose and verse including The Lay Folks' Mass Book and Speculum Mundi

Lord's prayer in English. Northern dialect features include 'kirc' for church (f. 100) and 'þo' for þe throughout. The middle English verses in this manuscript catalogued by Boffey and Edwards (2005) are as follows, with reference numbers:190/2: 'All hyt is

• Drawing of a circle, representing the scheme of the heptarchy, with seven spheres surrounding a central one., The Scheme of the Heptarchy (f. 40), the Roman de Brut (ff. 40-113), the Estoire des Engles (ff. 113-150) (index Estoire des Engleis)

VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 2 (see Carley 2000).Part 4 (ff. 151-192v)The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire, founded c.1122: Arundel 36, Cotton Vespasian B XI, ff. 84-125*, and Royal 13 A XXI (ff.151-92) were

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to