• Puzzle initial 'H'(enricus)., Various legal texts, including Statutes of England (index Statute book, Statuta Angliae)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'D'(ist) with pen-flourishing including a hybrid creature., Vetera statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book)(ends imperfectly)

marginal annotations added upside down, 14th or 15th century (e. g. ff. 46v, 48v, 131v).John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other

• ~Bas-de-page~ of the Nativity, with a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background (middle miniature)., Cutting from a Dominican manuscript

a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background. Cutting from a Dominican manuscript ?A Dominican church, possibly San Domenico in Bologna: kneeling Dominican friars in the present cutting and those formerly in the Holford Collection

• Puzzle initial 'E'(dwardus) with foliate motifs and a hybrid creature., Statuta Angliae (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erba) at the beginning of Ecclesiastes., Bible (from Proverbs to the first Book of Maccabees), imperfect at the end

at the end Henry Jefferey: inscribed in the 17th century, 'Hennrye Jefferey xxx^s^' (f. 1).John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other

• Decorated foliate initial 'A'(dventus) at the beginning of Florus's Epitome bellorum, and foliate border with heraldic arms., Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

Decorated foliate initial 'A'(dventus) at the beginning of Florus's Epitome bellorum, and foliate border with heraldic arms. 1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., 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)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the

• Calendar page for December and decorated initial 'C'(ircumcisio) at the beginning of the martyrology for January., Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v)

Small initials in red or blue. Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v) The dedication of a church at Norwich is entered into the calendar on 24 September 'dedicatio ecclesiae Norwit' (f. 8).Addition of the translation of

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and words 'dixit in evangelio' in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Decorated initials 'Q'(ui), 'D'(ominus), and 'Q'(uod), in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• The ownership inscription of John Clerk, grocer and apocetharius of King Edward IV, and warden of the London Company of Grocers in 1467 and 1475. The apocetharius of the royal household was the official responsible for preserved fruits and condiments., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

responsible for preserved fruits and condiments. Contents:Calendar (ff. 1-6v), which includes the date of the dedication of the Ludlow parish church of St. Laurence,French Psalter followed by other liturgical prayers (ff. 8-53v, 53v-59),Hours of the Virgin and of the Dead

• Coloured initials in the litany. Each column on this page has the saint's name to the left, followed by a space and an abbreviation of the word 'priez' (pray [for me]), with a hybrid creature in the lower right margin., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

creature in the lower right margin. Contents:Calendar (ff. 1-6v), which includes the date of the dedication of the Ludlow parish church of St. Laurence,French Psalter followed by other liturgical prayers (ff. 8-53v, 53v-59),Hours of the Virgin and of the Dead

• Ink drawings of a huntsman and his dog chasing a female ape: the ape carries one child on her back, and the other on her front, and a mermaid and a ship in the sea., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

and a ship in the sea. Contents:Calendar (ff. 1-6v), which includes the date of the dedication of the Ludlow parish church of St. Laurence,French Psalter followed by other liturgical prayers (ff. 8-53v, 53v-59),Hours of the Virgin and of the Dead

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop celebrating mass inside a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

a bishop celebrating mass inside a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and added

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop by a church, along with the Virgin Mary and an angel., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

of a bishop by a church, along with the Virgin Mary and an angel. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous