• Coloured initial and rubric in display capitals., End of 'Contra mendacium' followed by the beginning of 'De cura pro mortuis gerenda', cropped leaf

of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical purposes. Drawings and printed book fragments from the volume were transferred to

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(eptemtrionalis) of a dragon., Historia Langobardorum, in six books, each preceded by a table of contents, added hymn on the preservation of St. Bertin's abbey at St. Omer from destruction by fire (ff. 71v-72) (index Historia Longobardorum)

is said to have occurred in the time of abbot Odbert (1000-1012); see also the Chronicle of S. Bertin by John of Ypres, cap. 34 (Edmund Martène and Ursin Durand, ~Thesaurus novus anecdotorum~, 5 vols (Paris, 1717), III, p. 569).Incipit: