• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man stealing food from a blind beggar's bowl, through a tube., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

scene of a man stealing food from a blind beggar's bowl, through a tube. 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

• Detail of the upper left hand roundel on the lower cover of the ivory binding, with the act of mercy of giving food to the hungry, with the inscription: 'Esurivi et dedistis mihi manducare' (Mathew 25: 35)., Former binding, now kept separately, with two ivory panels, separated ivory panel backings, and embroidered silk spine

of the ivory binding, with the act of mercy of giving food to the hungry, with the inscription: 'Esurivi et dedistis mihi manducare' (Mathew 25: 35). The calendar is a pre-Sarum Winchester diocese secular calendar, according to Morgan 1981.The Psalter

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus), with Paul (in prison?) while a bishop (St Nicholas of Myra?) gives a bag of money or food to a beggar, at the beginning of Philemon. In the page layout typical of glossed manuscripts of the Bible, short excerpts from the Epistle to Philemon are written in large letters. The commentary is written to the side, top and bottom of it, in smaller letters. Underscored phrases in the commentary are from the text, and the discussions on them follow. In the upper margin of the page, the red inscription is an abbreviation of 'Ambrose', citing the author whose writing is excerpted in the gloss., Commentary on the Epistles, glossed

(St Nicholas of Myra?) gives a bag of money or food to a beggar, at the beginning of Philemon. In the page layout typical of glossed manuscripts of the Bible, short excerpts from the Epistle to Philemon are written in

• Miniature of the young Cuthbert interrupted kneeling in prayer by his horse pulling down from the roof bread and cheese wrapped in linen, from Chapter 5 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

leather label inside upper cover), it became Additional 39943 and was re-numbered after the creation of the 'Yates Thompson' shelfmark, following Mrs Yates Thompson's bequest of other manuscripts in 1941. Cuthbert's horse finds him food Bede Durham England, N. (Durham)